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.
Stop in the Name of Rub 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 123 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 Stop in the Name of Rub 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 6 years after Stop in the Name of Rub did, first appearing in 2020.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Stop in the Name of Rub 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 | 154.2284 | 150.7772 | 152.50 | top 91% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.4060 | 156.5144 | 157.96 | top 81% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164.5256 | 153.6572 | 159.09 | top 74% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.6800 | 153.1088 | 155.39 | top 75% |
“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.
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 79% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 90% |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 85% | 87.4% | 86.8% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-06-13 | Delta Smoke BBQ Contest Wynne, AR | 44 / 49 (629.4972) | 48 (150.7772) | 44 (156.5144) | 32 (164.5256) | 38 (157.6800) |
| 2014-05-02 | Smokelawn Hot Springs, AR | 31 / 39 (620.4004) | 33 (154.2284) | 28 (159.4060) | 32 (153.6572) | 28 (153.1088) |