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.
SAUCED-N-SMOKIN 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 128 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 SAUCED-N-SMOKIN has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where SAUCED-N-SMOKIN's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 9 years after SAUCED-N-SMOKIN did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with SAUCED-N-SMOKIN 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 | 169.7256 | 161.1316 | 165.43 | top 51% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.3600 | 154.7772 | 155.07 | top 83% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.2972 | 166.8684 | 168.58 | top 32% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.5716 | 155.9656 | 158.27 | 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.
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 63% | 90.5% | 89.9% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-08-01 | Laurie Hillbilly BBQ Laurie, MO | 27 / 47 (651.3484) | 14 (169.7256) | 38 (155.3600) | 11 (170.2972) | 33 (155.9656) |
| 2014-06-06 | Keepers of the Fire BBQ Contest Mayetta, KS | 37 / 54 (643.3488) | 39 (161.1316) | 46 (154.7772) | 22 (166.8684) | 29 (160.5716) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 ↗ | Master | #2483 (72 pts) | #1896 (127 pts) | #2526 (72 pts) | #1767 (142 pts) | #2515 (72 pts) |