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.
Dad's Grilling Crew 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 154 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 Dad's Grilling Crew 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 Dad's Grilling Crew's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 10 years after Dad's Grilling Crew did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Dad's Grilling Crew on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Dad's Grilling Crew's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Dad's Grilling Crew's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.4282 | 155.4282 | 155.43 | top 88% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 150.2856 | 150.2856 | 150.29 | top 95% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.7140 | 165.7140 | 165.71 | top 48% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.1426 | 165.1426 | 165.14 | top 50% |
“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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 80% | 88.4% | 88.4% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-06-14 | The Desoto Shrine Club 5th Annual 2013 BBQ Cookoff Hernando, MS | 32 / 40 (636.5704) | 35 (155.4282) | 38 (150.2856) | 19 (165.7140) | 20 (165.1426) |