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.
Smoktorious P.I.G. 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 150 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 Smoktorious P.I.G. has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThis is the highest they've ever been rated, 8 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Smoktorious P.I.G. on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2019.
⚔ 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 | 162.8572 | 154.2172 | 158.54 | top 75% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.2400 | 153.1316 | 155.69 | top 85% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.9656 | 147.9540 | 151.96 | top 87% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.3716 | 144.5372 | 149.95 | top 83% |
“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.
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| MA | 1 | 0 | top 91% |
| CT | 1 | 0 | top 92% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 91% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 92% |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 91% | 86.6% | 86.6% |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 92% | 84.5% | 84.5% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-10-01 | Nor'Easter BBQ Showdown - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES 🏅 Southwick, MA | 30 / 33 (623.7944) | 31 (154.2172) | 30 (158.2400) | 26 (155.9656) | 23 (155.3716) |
| 2019-06-01 | Sun BBQFest 🏅 Uncasville, CT | 56 / 61 (608.4800) | 34 (162.8572) | 48 (153.1316) | 58 (147.9540) | 59 (144.5372) |