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.
Swiggin Pigs BBQ FOP Lodge 40 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 147 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 Swiggin Pigs BBQ FOP Lodge 40 has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1529 at their best, 44 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-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2019, 5 years before Swiggin Pigs BBQ FOP Lodge 40's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2016, 7 years before Swiggin Pigs BBQ FOP Lodge 40's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Swiggin Pigs BBQ FOP Lodge 40 on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.4172 | 154.2400 | 160.83 | top 74% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.8344 | 164.0116 | 165.42 | top 66% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.0744 | 150.8000 | 153.94 | top 92% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.9544 | 158.8112 | 159.38 | top 78% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 85% | 88.6% | 88.6% |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 82% | 89% | 89% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-10-30 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 377 / 444 (638.1032) | 409 (154.2400) | 281 (166.8344) | 391 (157.0744) | 347 (159.9544) |
| 2023-09-27 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 397 / 487 (641.0400) | 270 (167.4172) | 336 (164.0116) | 463 (150.8000) | 382 (158.8112) |