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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.
Redneck Smokers 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 124 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.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2023, 3 years before Redneck Smokers's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Redneck Smokers's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2013, 13 years before Redneck Smokers's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Redneck Smokers on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Redneck Smokers's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head7 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Redneck Smokers's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.9544 | 159.9544 | 159.95 | top 96% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.3944 | 167.3944 | 167.39 | top 88% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171.9656 | 171.9656 | 171.97 | top 60% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.6916 | 161.6916 | 161.69 | top 96% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 92% | 91.8% | 91.8% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-08 | 44th Annual Kennett Jaycees BBQ Cook Off 🏅 Kennett, MO | 23 / 25 (661.0060) | 24 (159.9544) | 22 (167.3944) | 15 (171.9656) | 24 (161.6916) |