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.
BARKIN DAWGS 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 148 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 BARKIN DAWGS 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 BARKIN DAWGS BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 8 years after BARKIN DAWGS BBQ did, first appearing in 2021.
⚔ 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 | 147.4284 | 147.3712 | 147.40 | top 90% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.1426 | 130.2628 | 143.70 | top 88% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.9028 | 141.7142 | 148.31 | top 84% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.2856 | 156.5944 | 157.44 | top 66% |
“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.
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smoke In The Spring | 2 | 64 | 0 | top 90% | 2014-04-11 |
| 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 90% | 81.8% | 81.8% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 90% | 84% | 84% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-04-11 | Smoke In The Spring Osage City, KS | 66 / 73 (589.1312) | 63 (147.3712) | 73 (130.2628) | 50 (154.9028) | 46 (156.5944) |
| 2013-04-12 | Smoke In The Spring Osage City, KS | 64 / 71 (604.5708) | 66 (147.4284) | 54 (157.1426) | 71 (141.7142) | 49 (158.2856) |