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.
DELIVERANCE SMOKERS 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 125 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 DELIVERANCE 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 2.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 11 years after DELIVERANCE SMOKERS did, first appearing in 2024.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with DELIVERANCE SMOKERS 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 | 164.0000 | 159.9544 | 161.98 | top 74% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.2744 | 142.2856 | 148.28 | top 99% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.9656 | 149.1428 | 156.55 | top 81% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.0856 | 161.1428 | 163.11 | top 62% |
“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.
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 86% |
| 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 86% | 89.3% | 89.3% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 85% | 85.6% | 85.6% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-11-07 | Country Pleasin Grillin & Chillin BBQ Classic Florence, MS | 25 / 29 (643.2800) | 27 (159.9544) | 29 (154.2744) | 21 (163.9656) | 19 (165.0856) |
| 2013-03-15 | Don't Be Cruel BBQ Duel Tupelo, MS | 85 / 100 (616.5712) | 55 (164.0000) | 97 (142.2856) | 90 (149.1428) | 59 (161.1428) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 ↗ | Master | #2798 (54 pts) | #2791 (54 pts) | #2794 (54 pts) | #2515 (74 pts) | #2107 (84 pts) |
| 2013 ↗ | Master | #1970 (75 pts) | #2073 (75 pts) | #2043 (75 pts) | #2080 (75 pts) | #2034 (75 pts) |