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.
Restless Smoke 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 118 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 Restless Smoke has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThis is the highest they've ever been rated, 66 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Restless Smoke on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2022, 4 years before Restless Smoke's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2015, 9 years before Restless Smoke's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.6916 | 150.2284 | 155.96 | top 81% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.8116 | 151.3600 | 157.09 | top 77% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 176.5600 | 156.5028 | 166.53 | top 51% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.4172 | 159.9428 | 163.68 | top 53% |
“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 | 100% | top 42% | 91.8% | 91.8% |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 86% | 86.9% | 86.9% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-26 | The Great Lenexa BBQ Battle - Kansas State Championship 🏅 Lenexa, KS | 66 / 157 (661.0060) | 97 (161.6916) | 93 (162.8116) | 8 (176.5600) | 96 (159.9428) |
| 2024-08-23 | East Central Kansas State BBQ Championship 🏅 Paola, KS | 36 / 42 (625.5084) | 42 (150.2284) | 40 (151.3600) | 41 (156.5028) | 19 (167.4172) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 ↗ | Master | #927 (60 pts) | #1010 (60 pts) | #1051 (60 pts) | #697 (155 pts) | #950 (60 pts) |
| 2024 ↗ | Master | #1182 (60 pts) | #1242 (60 pts) | #1317 (60 pts) | #1231 (60 pts) | #1082 (90 pts) |