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.
LEWIS BBQ CATERING 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 160 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 LEWIS BBQ CATERING 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 LEWIS BBQ CATERING's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with LEWIS BBQ CATERING 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 LEWIS BBQ CATERING's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 5 years after LEWIS BBQ CATERING did, first appearing in 2019.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where LEWIS BBQ CATERING's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.9428 | 155.9428 | 155.94 | top 94% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.4972 | 159.4972 | 159.50 | top 80% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.2512 | 170.2512 | 170.25 | top 35% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.6800 | 161.6800 | 161.68 | top 73% |
“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 86% | 89.9% | 89.9% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-06-20 | The Desoto Shrine Club 6th Annual 2014 BBQ Cook Off Hernando, MS | 42 / 49 (647.3712) | 46 (155.9428) | 39 (159.4972) | 17 (170.2512) | 36 (161.6800) |