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.
Crooked Creek Grillers has 2 rated contests — 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 132 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 Crooked Creek Grillers has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Crooked Creek Grillers's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 9 years after Crooked Creek Grillers did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Crooked Creek Grillers on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 148.5484 | 144.5600 | 146.55 | top 87% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.2744 | 138.9028 | 146.59 | top 75% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 142.8684 | 135.9428 | 139.41 | top 89% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 149.7260 | 111.3260 | 130.53 | top 81% |
“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.
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| NJ | 1 | 0 | top 100% |
| MD | 1 | 0 | top 77% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 77% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 100% |
| 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 100% | 74.7% | 74.7% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 77% | 81.7% | 81.7% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-07-11 | New Jersey State Barbecue Championship North Wildwood, NJ | 65 / 65 (537.6572) | 58 (144.5600) | 56 (138.9028) | 57 (142.8684) | 65 (111.3260) |
| 2013-10-11 | 3rd Annual High Point BBQ Clarksburg, MD | 24 / 31 (588.4916) | 26 (148.5484) | 20 (154.2744) | 28 (135.9428) | 19 (149.7260) |