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.
JJ's 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 148 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 JJ's 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-headLevel with JJ's BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 8 years after JJ's BBQ did, first appearing in 2021.
⚔ 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 | 164.5712 | 154.2856 | 159.43 | top 68% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164.0000 | 153.7144 | 158.86 | top 65% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 169.7144 | 20.0000 | 94.86 | top 59% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 147.4288 | 141.1428 | 144.29 | top 89% |
“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 | 50% | top 88% | 88.8% | 77.4% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-05-03 | Bixby BBQ & Blues Festival Bixby, OK | 81 / 88 (475.4288) | 65 (154.2856) | 64 (153.7144) | 84 (20.0000) | 71 (147.4288) |
| 2013-04-05 | Kennett Jaycee's Show Me State BBQ Cookoff Kennett, MO | 37 / 44 (639.4284) | 27 (164.5712) | 25 (164.0000) | 10 (169.7144) | 43 (141.1428) |