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.
The Original Backyard Grill 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 101 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 The Original Backyard Grill 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 The Original Backyard Grill's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 5 years after The Original Backyard Grill did, first appearing in 2019.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with The Original Backyard Grill on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where The Original Backyard Grill's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where The Original Backyard Grill's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 171.4400 | 171.4400 | 171.44 | top 11% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.3944 | 159.3944 | 159.39 | top 50% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.3712 | 155.3712 | 155.37 | top 61% |
| Brisket | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 174.3200 | 174.3200 | 174.32 | top 5% |
“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 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 18% | 91.7% | 91.7% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-02-21 | Cattlemen's Caribbean BBQ Competition San Juan, PR | 7 / 38 (660.5256) | 4 (171.4400) | 19 (159.3944) | 23 (155.3712) | 2 (174.3200) |