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.
SMOK'N HOGS OF MANCHESTER 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 146 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 SMOK'N HOGS OF MANCHESTER 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-headThey turned up 6 years after SMOK'N HOGS OF MANCHESTER did, first appearing in 2019.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with SMOK'N HOGS OF MANCHESTER on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.2858 | 140.5256 | 151.41 | top 73% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 138.3088 | 137.1432 | 137.73 | top 95% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.1428 | 137.0856 | 147.11 | top 72% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 139.3944 | 138.2856 | 138.84 | top 95% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PA | 1 | 0 | top 100% |
| MD | 1 | 0 | top 85% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 100% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 85% |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 93% | 82.6% | 79.9% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-09-06 | 5th Annual Southern York County BBQ Cookoff York, PA | 31 / 31 (555.3144) | 31 (140.5256) | 28 (138.3088) | 31 (137.0856) | 29 (139.3944) |
| 2013-05-03 | Naptown barBAYq Contest & Music Festival Annapolis, MD | 47 / 55 (594.8574) | 25 (162.2858) | 55 (137.1432) | 24 (157.1428) | 53 (138.2856) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 ↗ | Master | #1664 (131 pts) | #1729 (131 pts) | #1738 (131 pts) | #1716 (136 pts) | #1694 (131 pts) |