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.
Texas Ribs 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 119 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 Texas Ribs 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 10 years after Texas Ribs did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Texas Ribs 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2854 | 164.5712 | 165.43 | top 51% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.8570 | 150.2856 | 156.57 | top 67% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.5714 | 158.2856 | 159.43 | top 57% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.4284 | 154.2852 | 156.86 | top 57% |
“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 59% | 89.8% | 88.7% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-06-28 | Hogging Up Virginia Bluegrass BBQ Festival (JUDGES FULL) Winchester, VA | 13 / 26 (646.8564) | 12 (166.2854) | 13 (162.8570) | 15 (158.2856) | 11 (159.4284) |
| 2013-05-31 | Beltway BBQ Showdown Ft. Washington, MD | 17 / 25 (629.7134) | 14 (164.5712) | 21 (150.2856) | 14 (160.5714) | 18 (154.2852) |