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.
Heavybird 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 149 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.
2 contests in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Heavybird 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-headLevel with Heavybird BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 6 years after Heavybird BBQ did, first appearing in 2019.
⚔ 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 | 151.9884 | 144.5712 | 148.28 | top 81% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 153.7028 | 151.9998 | 152.85 | top 74% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.8572 | 133.7028 | 144.28 | top 84% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 143.4286 | 138.8116 | 141.12 | top 88% |
“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 85% | 80.3% | 80.3% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 83% | 82.6% | 82.6% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-05-02 | Bixby BBQ'N Blues Festival Bixby, OK | 68 / 80 (578.2056) | 57 (151.9884) | 52 (153.7028) | 73 (133.7028) | 70 (138.8116) |
| 2013-05-03 | Bixby BBQ & Blues Festival Bixby, OK | 73 / 88 (594.8568) | 80 (144.5712) | 73 (151.9998) | 68 (154.8572) | 78 (143.4286) |