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.
TNT 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 149 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 TNT SMOKE has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1505 at their best, 30 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with TNT SMOKE on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 9 years after TNT SMOKE did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-head7 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where TNT SMOKE's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.8456 | 142.2056 | 150.53 | top 82% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.1544 | 149.1084 | 159.13 | top 58% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.4172 | 151.3828 | 153.40 | top 91% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.3600 | 138.7888 | 147.07 | top 89% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 94% | 85.4% | 85.4% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 97% | 84.1% | 84.1% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-10-09 | Eastern Carolina BBQ ThrowDown Rocky Mount, NC | 46 / 49 (614.6968) | 33 (158.8456) | 46 (149.1084) | 43 (151.3828) | 41 (155.3600) |
| 2013-11-01 | Hog Happnin' Shelby, NC | 73 / 75 (605.5660) | 73 (142.2056) | 17 (169.1544) | 70 (155.4172) | 71 (138.7888) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 ↗ | Master | #2158 (60 pts) | #2209 (60 pts) | #2209 (60 pts) | #2225 (60 pts) | #2214 (60 pts) |
| 2013 ↗ | Master | #1970 (75 pts) | #2073 (75 pts) | #1841 (115 pts) | #2080 (75 pts) | #2034 (75 pts) |