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.
Cotton Patch Cooking Cre 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 105 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 Cotton Patch Cooking Cre 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 Cotton Patch Cooking Cre on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2013.
⚔ 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 | 162.2858 | 159.4282 | 160.86 | top 72% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.7144 | 161.7142 | 163.71 | top 57% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.7142 | 165.1428 | 165.43 | top 39% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.4284 | 165.7142 | 166.57 | top 43% |
“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.
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 52% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 49% |
| 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 50% | 91.5% | 91.2% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-04-12 | Grilling on the River '13 Columbus, MS | 16 / 31 (658.8572) | 22 (162.2858) | 18 (165.7144) | 15 (165.1428) | 16 (165.7142) |
| 2013-03-15 | Don't Be Cruel BBQ Duel Tupelo, MS | 49 / 100 (654.2850) | 74 (159.4282) | 55 (161.7142) | 30 (165.7142) | 35 (167.4284) |