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.
J and W 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 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 J and W BBQ 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 12 years after J and W BBQ did, first appearing in 2025.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with J and W 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-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 | 155.9312 | 155.4286 | 155.68 | top 63% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 150.2858 | 131.3716 | 140.83 | top 80% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2972 | 153.1430 | 159.72 | top 34% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.1660 | 143.4286 | 150.30 | top 62% |
“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 81% | 84.8% | 84.8% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 60% | 83.7% | 83.7% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-05-24 | Roc City Rib Fest Rochester, NY | 70 / 86 (610.7660) | 59 (155.9312) | 85 (131.3716) | 12 (166.2972) | 46 (157.1660) |
| 2013-05-25 | Roc City Rib Fest Rochester, NY | 48 / 80 (602.2860) | 46 (155.4286) | 49 (150.2858) | 43 (153.1430) | 57 (143.4286) |