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.
Merry Oaks BBQ 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 141 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 Merry Oaks BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 11 years after Merry Oaks BBQ did, first appearing in 2024.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Merry Oaks BBQ 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 | 166.3088 | 154.2288 | 160.27 | top 58% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.8460 | 145.6688 | 154.26 | top 70% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.9428 | 158.2168 | 161.08 | top 57% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.9772 | 157.6456 | 158.81 | top 54% |
“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 53% | 90.4% | 90.4% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 85% | 85.8% | 85.8% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-07-10 | SC Festival of Discovery Greenwood, SC | 46 / 86 (650.7432) | 35 (166.3088) | 38 (162.8460) | 35 (163.9428) | 53 (157.6456) |
| 2013-08-23 | Sooie't Relief BBQ Benefit Greer, SC | 35 / 41 (618.0916) | 31 (154.2288) | 39 (145.6688) | 30 (158.2168) | 19 (159.9772) |