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.
PORK Q SMOKERS has 3 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 115 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 PORK Q SMOKERS has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with PORK Q SMOKERS on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 6 years after PORK Q SMOKERS did, first appearing in 2019.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 164.5714 | 149.7144 | 159.43 | top 76% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 170.8572 | 162.2858 | 166.66 | top 48% |
| Pork | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.1428 | 150.8228 | 158.27 | top 83% |
| Brisket | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 163.4282 | 134.1944 | 153.49 | top 80% |
“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.
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| TN | 1 | 0 | top 91% |
| MO | 1 | 0 | top 53% |
| AR | 1 | 0 | top 75% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 53% |
| Large (40+) | 2 | 0 | top 83% |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +1.1 | Fin to Fur's Red White & Blue BBQ Blowout 2013 | 2013-07-05 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -12.2 | Music City Festival & BBQ Championship | 2013-08-23 |
| -7.2 | Delta Smoke BBQ Contest (JUDGES FULL) | 2013-06-07 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 33% | top 73% | 91.3% | 88.6% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-08-23 | Music City Festival & BBQ Championship Nashville, TN | 50 / 55 (601.5772) | 50 (149.7144) | 17 (166.8456) | 49 (150.8228) | 54 (134.1944) |
| 2013-07-05 | Fin to Fur's Red White & Blue BBQ Blowout 2013 Thayer, MO | 8 / 15 (657.1424) | 9 (164.0000) | 4 (170.8572) | 13 (158.8570) | 9 (163.4282) |
| 2013-06-07 | Delta Smoke BBQ Contest (JUDGES FULL) Wynne, AR | 30 / 40 (654.8572) | 31 (164.5714) | 34 (162.2858) | 29 (165.1428) | 33 (162.8572) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 ↗ | Master | #1038 (275 pts) | #1121 (265 pts) | #863 (370 pts) | #1200 (240 pts) | #1098 (265 pts) |