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.
SMOKIN WHEELS BBQ 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 140 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 SMOKIN WHEELS BBQ 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-headLevel with SMOKIN WHEELS BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 9 contests, alongside a 33% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ 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 | 154.8228 | 153.6912 | 154.26 | top 81% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.7604 | 155.3716 | 162.57 | top 38% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 147.9312 | 147.3828 | 147.66 | top 89% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.1200 | 137.6460 | 149.38 | top 71% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 61% | 87.9% | 87.9% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 87% | 82.6% | 82.6% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-04-22 | Rock N Ribs BBQ Festival Springfield, MO | 37 / 61 (633.0860) | 50 (154.8228) | 11 (169.7604) | 56 (147.3828) | 30 (161.1200) |
| 2015-04-24 | Rock N Ribs BBQ Festival Springfield, MO | 55 / 63 (594.6400) | 51 (153.6912) | 37 (155.3716) | 54 (147.9312) | 59 (137.6460) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 ↗ | Master | #2158 (60 pts) | #2209 (60 pts) | #2209 (60 pts) | #2225 (60 pts) | #2214 (60 pts) |