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.
Hughes Q Crew 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 123 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 Hughes Q Crew has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Hughes Q Crew's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 6 years after Hughes Q Crew did, first appearing in 2019.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Hughes Q Crew 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-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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 167.4286 | 160.5488 | 163.99 | top 36% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.1430 | 147.3600 | 154.25 | top 56% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.7256 | 153.1428 | 157.43 | top 58% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.9428 | 156.5714 | 158.26 | top 55% |
“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 70% | 87.4% | 87.4% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 49% | 88.7% | 88.7% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-01-23 | The Tiger Town Pig Festival Lakeland, FL | 48 / 69 (629.5772) | 40 (160.5488) | 55 (147.3600) | 31 (161.7256) | 35 (159.9428) |
| 2013-01-25 | Lakeland Pig Festival Lakeland, FL | 34 / 70 (638.2858) | 10 (167.4286) | 23 (161.1430) | 50 (153.1428) | 41 (156.5714) |