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.
Chef Charles 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 129 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 Chef Charles BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThis is the highest they've ever been rated, 28 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 12 years after Chef Charles BBQ did, first appearing in 2025.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Chef Charles 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-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.2858 | 154.2858 | 154.29 | top 66% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 146.3200 | 138.2856 | 142.30 | top 96% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 142.8684 | 141.1430 | 142.01 | top 94% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 136.5712 | 136.5712 | 136.57 | top 86% |
“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 100% | 40.2% | 40.2% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 97% | 79.2% | 79.2% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-06-27 | Smokin' On The Pecos Artesia, NM | 60 / 60 (289.1884) | — | 59 (146.3200) | 58 (142.8684) | — |
| 2013-06-28 | Smokin' On the Pecos Artesia, NM | 68 / 70 (570.2856) | 46 (154.2858) | 66 (138.2856) | 64 (141.1430) | 60 (136.5712) |