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.
Ron's Meat Can't be Beat 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 147 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 Ron's Meat Can't be Beat 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 11 years after Ron's Meat Can't be Beat did, first appearing in 2024.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Ron's Meat Can't be Beat 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 | 159.4288 | 141.7028 | 150.57 | top 67% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 153.1428 | 149.1428 | 151.14 | top 66% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 134.2858 | 133.1084 | 133.70 | top 96% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 139.4400 | 132.5714 | 136.01 | top 90% |
“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 95% | 78.8% | 78.8% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 91% | 79.9% | 79.9% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-05-09 | BBQ Jamboree Fredericksburg, VA | 61 / 64 (567.3940) | 61 (141.7028) | 42 (153.1428) | 63 (133.1084) | 58 (139.4400) |
| 2013-04-19 | Pork in the Park Barbeque Festival Salisbury, MD | 96 / 106 (575.4288) | 40 (159.4288) | 70 (149.1428) | 99 (134.2858) | 94 (132.5714) |