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.
MWR Bar-B-Crew 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 125 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 MWR Bar-B-Crew 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 8 years after MWR Bar-B-Crew did, first appearing in 2021.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with MWR Bar-B-Crew 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 | 154.2172 | 152.5712 | 153.39 | top 91% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.2516 | 161.1430 | 161.70 | top 63% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.3828 | 154.8568 | 159.12 | top 76% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.8000 | 154.8570 | 158.83 | top 65% |
“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 73% | 89.3% | 89.3% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 87% | 86.6% | 86.6% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-05-02 | The WhistleStop Festival & Rocket City BBQ (JUDGES SIGN UP STARTS DECEMBER 2, 2013) Huntsville, AL | 45 / 62 (642.6516) | 57 (154.2172) | 39 (162.2516) | 38 (163.3828) | 34 (162.8000) |
| 2013-05-03 | The Whistle Stop Festival & Rocket City BBQ Huntsville, AL | 54 / 62 (623.4280) | 56 (152.5712) | 39 (161.1430) | 56 (154.8568) | 47 (154.8570) |