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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.
Two Old Guys Rubbin' Butts and Smokin Meat 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 151 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 Two Old Guys Rubbin' Butts and Smokin Meat's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Two Old Guys Rubbin' Butts and Smokin Meat on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2023, 3 years before Two Old Guys Rubbin' Butts and Smokin Meat's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2013, 13 years before Two Old Guys Rubbin' Butts and Smokin Meat's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2021, 5 years before Two Old Guys Rubbin' Butts and Smokin Meat's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2018, 8 years before Two Old Guys Rubbin' Butts and Smokin Meat'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 | 144.5028 | 144.5028 | 144.50 | top 182% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 153.6800 | 153.6800 | 153.68 | top 171% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 149.7028 | 149.7028 | 149.70 | top 176% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 153.0972 | 153.0972 | 153.10 | top 153% |
“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 100% | 83.5% | 83.5% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-01 | SmokeHouse Barbeque Showdown (OPEN FORMAT) (REGISTRATION FULL) 🏅 Cambridge, IA | 17 / 17 (600.9828) | 31 (144.5028) | 29 (153.6800) | 30 (149.7028) | 26 (153.0972) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 ↗ | Master | #1173 (56 pts) | #1223 (56 pts) | #1253 (56 pts) | #1179 (56 pts) | #1175 (56 pts) |