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.
T'S CUSTOM SMOKER has 1 rated contest — 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 145 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 T'S CUSTOM SMOKER 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 13 years after T'S CUSTOM SMOKER did, first appearing in 2026.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with T'S CUSTOM SMOKER on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where T'S CUSTOM SMOKER's is still finding its level.
⚔ 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 | 161.6800 | 157.6684 | 159.67 | top 79% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.4172 | 156.5256 | 159.97 | top 60% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164.0000 | 158.7884 | 161.39 | top 65% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 146.7428 | 146.7428 | 146.74 | top 93% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 81% | 87% | 87% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-10-24 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Backyard Contest (BACKYARD) Lynchburg, TN | — | 35 (161.6800) | 33 (156.5256) | 22 (164.0000) | — |
| 2013-09-13 | Decatur Jaycees 19th Annual Riverfest Decatur, AL | 65 / 80 (626.6168) | 59 (157.6684) | 33 (163.4172) | 62 (158.7884) | 74 (146.7428) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 ↗ | Master | #1970 (75 pts) | #2073 (75 pts) | #2043 (75 pts) | #2080 (75 pts) | #2034 (75 pts) |