The nearest teams in the power rankings, with a different reason on each card — six teams on one rating are rarely on it for the same reason. Rating decides who makes the list; where teams tie on it, the ones this team has actually cooked against come first, then teams at a similar point in their own career. KCBS doesn’t publish where a team is from, so nothing here is inferred from geography.
BALTIMORE BARBECUE COMPANY has 1 rated contest — short of the five it takes to earn a power ranking — so this rating has barely moved off the 1500 every team starts on and 125 rated teams sit within a point of it. Read the list as the nearest company at a number nobody here has moved far from, not as a verdict on who this team belongs with.
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team BALTIMORE BARBECUE COMPANY has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where BALTIMORE BARBECUE COMPANY's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with BALTIMORE BARBECUE COMPANY on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where BALTIMORE BARBECUE COMPANY's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 5 years after BALTIMORE BARBECUE COMPANY did, first appearing in 2019.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where BALTIMORE BARBECUE COMPANY's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 146.2512 | 146.2512 | 146.25 | top 96% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.8228 | 162.8228 | 162.82 | top 39% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.2744 | 154.2744 | 154.27 | top 65% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.3712 | 163.3712 | 163.37 | top 22% |
“Calls” = top-10 category finishes (getting called to the stage). Scores here are the final weighted totals KCBS publishes; per-criterion appearance/taste/tenderness marks aren’t in the public results feed.
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 57% | 87% | 87% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-08-08 | MD State BBQ Bash, Presented by Mars Super Markets Bel Air, MD | 31 / 54 (626.7196) | 52 (146.2512) | 21 (162.8228) | 35 (154.2744) | 12 (163.3712) |