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.
Smokin Cole's BBQ Sauce & Marinade 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 109 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 Smokin Cole's BBQ Sauce & Marinade's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Smokin Cole's BBQ Sauce & Marinade on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2018, 3 years before Smokin Cole's BBQ Sauce & Marinade's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2013, 8 years before Smokin Cole's BBQ Sauce & Marinade's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2017, 4 years before Smokin Cole's BBQ Sauce & Marinade's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2017, 4 years before Smokin Cole's BBQ Sauce & Marinade'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 | 158.8116 | 158.8116 | 158.81 | top 71% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 172.5716 | 172.5716 | 172.57 | top 13% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.8228 | 170.8228 | 170.82 | top 29% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 153.1312 | 153.1312 | 153.13 | top 69% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 46% | 91% | 91% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-06-04 | Cedar Fest BBQ Cook-off 🏅 Cedar Park, TX | 22 / 48 (655.3372) | 34 (158.8116) | 6 (172.5716) | 14 (170.8228) | 33 (153.1312) |