Still inside their first twelve months: see what a first season usually looks like.
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.
PMC SMOKERS 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 129 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 PMC SMOKERS 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 PMC SMOKERS's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2020, 6 years before PMC SMOKERS's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2014, 12 years before PMC SMOKERS's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with PMC SMOKERS on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2017, 9 years before PMC SMOKERS'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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 156.5944 | 156.5944 | 156.59 | top 90% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.7144 | 161.7144 | 161.71 | top 83% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.2284 | 162.2284 | 162.23 | top 77% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.3828 | 163.3828 | 163.38 | top 61% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 86% | 89.4% | 89.4% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-01 | ND BBQ Championship 🏅 Fargo, ND | 61 / 71 (643.9200) | 64 (156.5944) | 59 (161.7144) | 55 (162.2284) | 43 (163.3828) |