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.
Pribs Ribs 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 142 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 Pribs Ribs has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Pribs Ribs's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 9 years after Pribs Ribs did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Pribs Ribs 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 | 155.4284 | 145.6800 | 150.55 | top 87% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 148.0002 | 143.3828 | 145.69 | top 94% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 151.9884 | 144.5714 | 148.28 | top 90% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 149.0856 | 147.4286 | 148.26 | top 85% |
“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 100% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 81% |
| 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% | 82% | 82% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 81% | 82.7% | 82.7% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-06-06 | 3rd Annual VC Music Fest & BBQ Valley Center, CA | 32 / 32 (590.1368) | 32 (145.6800) | 32 (143.3828) | 29 (151.9884) | 30 (149.0856) |
| 2013-06-21 | 2nd Annual Pechanga BBQ Championship Temecula, CA | 57 / 70 (595.4286) | 52 (155.4284) | 62 (148.0002) | 63 (144.5714) | 53 (147.4286) |