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.
A Frog and A Dog 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 127 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 A Frog and A Dog BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1618 at their best, 119 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with A Frog and A Dog BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 6 contests, alongside a 17% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ 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 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 173.1428 | 170.8572 | 172.00 | top 12% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 170.2858 | 157.7144 | 164.00 | top 32% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 168.0000 | 146.8570 | 157.43 | top 53% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 153.1428 | 134.8568 | 144.00 | top 84% |
“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 | 100% | top 55% | 89.4% | 88.5% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-05-31 | Royal Gorge Holy Smoke BBQ Showdown Canon City, CO | 16 / 33 (643.9998) | 5 (170.8572) | 3 (170.2858) | 4 (168.0000) | 33 (134.8568) |
| 2013-05-10 | Wild West BBQ Lamar, CO | 19 / 31 (630.8570) | 3 (173.1428) | 17 (157.7144) | 29 (146.8570) | 21 (153.1428) |