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.
Smoke & Flame BBQ Catering Co. 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 130 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.
5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Smoke & Flame BBQ Catering Co.'s is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2017, 6 years before Smoke & Flame BBQ Catering Co.'s first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Smoke & Flame BBQ Catering Co. on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Smoke & Flame BBQ Catering Co.'s is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Smoke & Flame BBQ Catering Co.'s is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Smoke & Flame BBQ Catering Co.'s is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.4400 | 163.4400 | 163.44 | top 73% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.7144 | 165.7144 | 165.71 | top 73% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.4172 | 167.4172 | 167.42 | top 73% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.9772 | 163.9772 | 163.98 | top 65% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 65% | 91.7% | 91.7% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-06-09 | Hayden West's Delta Smoke BBQ Contest 🏅 Wynne, AR | 17 / 26 (660.5488) | 19 (163.4400) | 19 (165.7144) | 19 (167.4172) | 17 (163.9772) |