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.
ON THE RUN 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 149 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.
2 contests in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team ON THE RUN 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-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with ON THE RUN BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2021, 5 years before ON THE RUN BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2021, 5 years before ON THE RUN 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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.6916 | 153.6800 | 157.69 | top 87% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.1316 | 141.6344 | 153.38 | top 80% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.7372 | 153.1200 | 161.43 | top 69% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 142.8116 | 109.4400 | 126.13 | top 98% |
“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.
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina Festival of Discovery | 2 | 68 | 0 | top 94% | 2026-07-09 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 99% | 79.8% | 79.8% |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 89% | 86.5% | 86.5% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-09 | South Carolina Festival of Discovery 🏅 Greenwood, SC | 74 / 75 (574.4916) | 73 (153.6800) | 74 (141.6344) | 36 (169.7372) | 74 (109.4400) |
| 2023-07-06 | South Carolina Festival of Discovery 🏅 Greenwood, SC | 68 / 76 (622.7548) | 58 (161.6916) | 47 (165.1316) | 69 (153.1200) | 74 (142.8116) |