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.
HILL RAT 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 139 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 HILL RAT 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-headThey turned up 8 years after HILL RAT BBQ did, first appearing in 2021.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with HILL RAT BBQ 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-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where HILL RAT BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.7144 | 158.2856 | 160.00 | top 60% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.3200 | 157.1200 | 157.72 | top 65% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.2056 | 145.6456 | 151.93 | top 87% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 153.0856 | 144.5828 | 148.83 | top 83% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 79% | 86% | 85.9% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-08-23 | Sooie't Relief BBQ Benefit Greer, SC | 33 / 41 (619.3940) | 27 (158.2856) | 29 (158.3200) | 31 (158.2056) | 37 (144.5828) |
| 2013-07-11 | SC Festival of Discovery Greenwood, SC | 60 / 78 (617.5656) | 42 (161.7144) | 47 (157.1200) | 76 (145.6456) | 59 (153.0856) |