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.
Joe Smoke’s BBQ 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 95 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 Joe Smoke’s BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Joe Smoke’s BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2019.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2014, 5 years before Joe Smoke’s BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Joe Smoke’s BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2014, 5 years before Joe Smoke’s BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 163.4972 | 163.4972 | 163.50 | top 33% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 154.8228 | 154.8228 | 154.82 | top 42% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 150.3200 | 150.3200 | 150.32 | top 58% |
| Brisket | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 166.2744 | 166.2744 | 166.27 | top 8% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 21% | 88.2% | 88.2% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-06-08 | Quebec City International BBQ & Music Fest Quebec, G1G 4C7 | 5 / 24 (634.9144) | 8 (163.4972) | 10 (154.8228) | 14 (150.3200) | 2 (166.2744) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 ↗ | Master | #1284 (174 pts) | #1469 (144 pts) | #1555 (124 pts) | #1774 (104 pts) | #1092 (249 pts) |