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.
SMOKE RANGERS 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 135 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.
2 contests in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team SMOKE RANGERS has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head12 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where SMOKE RANGERS's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with SMOKE RANGERS on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2013.
⚔ 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 | 163.9656 | 132.0000 | 147.98 | top 67% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 141.6916 | 116.0000 | 128.85 | top 96% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.5256 | 127.9996 | 144.26 | top 69% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.2858 | 161.7600 | 162.02 | top 28% |
“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.
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Great Lenexa BBQ Battle - Kansas State Championship | 2 | 100 | 0 | top 77% | 2014-06-27 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 54% | 87.2% | 87.2% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 99% | 74.8% | 74.8% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-06-27 | Great Lenexa BBQ Battle - Kansas State Championship 🏅 Lenexa, KS | 100 / 184 (627.9428) | 68 (163.9656) | 172 (141.6916) | 73 (160.5256) | 52 (161.7600) |
| 2013-06-21 | Great Lenexa BBQ Battle - Kansas State Championship 🏅 Lenexa, KS | 181 / 183 (538.2854) | 178 (132.0000) | 182 (116.0000) | 180 (127.9996) | 49 (162.2858) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 ↗ | Master | #1970 (75 pts) | #2073 (75 pts) | #2043 (75 pts) | #2080 (75 pts) | #2034 (75 pts) |