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.
Po Boars 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 152 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.
2 contests in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Po Boars 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-headLevel with Po Boars on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 8 years after Po Boars did, first appearing in 2021.
⚔ 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 | 156.5372 | 153.7140 | 155.13 | top 93% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.2284 | 160.5714 | 161.40 | top 69% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.5716 | 154.8344 | 157.70 | top 84% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.2400 | 152.0000 | 155.12 | 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 90% | 87.8% | 87.8% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 90% | 87.1% | 87.1% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-06-20 | The Desoto Shrine Club 6th Annual 2014 BBQ Cook Off Hernando, MS | 44 / 49 (631.8400) | 45 (156.5372) | 36 (162.2284) | 46 (154.8344) | 41 (158.2400) |
| 2013-06-14 | The Desoto Shrine Club 5th Annual 2013 BBQ Cookoff Hernando, MS | 36 / 40 (626.8570) | 38 (153.7140) | 26 (160.5714) | 30 (160.5716) | 35 (152.0000) |