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.
Waugh-B-Q 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 146 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 Waugh-B-Q has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1505 at their best, 30 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 9 years after Waugh-B-Q did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Waugh-B-Q 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-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.2858 | 154.8456 | 158.57 | top 56% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 140.5716 | 138.2860 | 139.43 | top 100% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 153.1428 | 144.5600 | 148.85 | top 87% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 152.5716 | 139.3716 | 145.97 | top 86% |
“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 96% | 80.5% | 80.5% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 89% | 84.2% | 84.2% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-05-02 | North Platte Honky Tonk BBQ Festival North Platte, NE | 24 / 25 (579.3488) | 19 (154.8456) | 25 (140.5716) | 24 (144.5600) | 24 (139.3716) |
| 2013-05-03 | North Platte Honky Tonk Barbecue Festival North Platte, NE | 34 / 38 (606.2862) | 14 (162.2858) | 38 (138.2860) | 30 (153.1428) | 29 (152.5716) |