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.
Swiggin Swine has 1 rated contest — 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 129 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 Swiggin Swine has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Swiggin Swine's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 9 years after Swiggin Swine did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Swiggin Swine on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Swiggin Swine's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Swiggin Swine's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.6912 | 169.6912 | 169.69 | top 22% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 156.5028 | 156.5028 | 156.50 | top 68% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 156.5944 | 156.5944 | 156.59 | top 85% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 145.0628 | 145.0628 | 145.06 | top 89% |
“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 77% | 87.2% | 87.2% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-04-25 | VFW Post 846 6th Annual BBQ Challenge (10 TEAM SPOTS STILL AVAILABLE) Overland Park, KS | 50 / 65 (627.8512) | 14 (169.6912) | 44 (156.5028) | 55 (156.5944) | 58 (145.0628) |