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.
SM'OAKED 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 124 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 SM'OAKED 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 SM'OAKED BBQ 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-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2017.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.1200 | 149.7028 | 153.41 | top 82% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.8112 | 151.3716 | 159.09 | top 58% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.9428 | 154.8572 | 155.40 | top 78% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.1200 | 143.9544 | 150.54 | top 86% |
“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 97% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 80% |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 89% | 86.2% | 85.9% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-09-08 | *Beak Week BBQ Challenge Goldsboro, NC | 38 / 39 (616.4112) | 38 (149.7028) | 15 (166.8112) | 32 (155.9428) | 39 (143.9544) |
| 2017-08-04 | *Pigs & Pedals Asheboro, NC | 37 / 46 (620.4688) | 31 (157.1200) | 36 (151.3716) | 34 (154.8572) | 33 (157.1200) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 ↗ | Master | #1722 (120 pts) | #1802 (120 pts) | #1583 (170 pts) | #1799 (120 pts) | #1794 (120 pts) |