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.
AFD Santa BBQ has 1 rated contest — 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 134 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 AFD Santa BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where AFD Santa BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with AFD Santa BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head9 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where AFD Santa BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where AFD Santa BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2021, 3 years before AFD Santa BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 130.2284 | 130.2284 | 130.23 | top 100% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 121.6000 | 121.6000 | 121.60 | top 100% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 136.5256 | 136.5256 | 136.53 | top 100% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 131.9200 | 131.9200 | 131.92 | top 100% |
“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 100% | 72.3% | 72.3% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-07-19 | BBCubed - Brighton Barbeque Bash 🏅 Oshkosh, WI | 37 / 37 (520.2740) | 37 (130.2284) | 37 (121.6000) | 37 (136.5256) | 37 (131.9200) |