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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.
Bill's Smokehouse 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.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2023, 3 years before Bill's Smokehouse's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Bill's Smokehouse's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2017, 9 years before Bill's Smokehouse's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Bill's Smokehouse on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2016, 10 years before Bill's Smokehouse's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2016, 10 years before Bill's Smokehouse'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 | 160.5484 | 160.5484 | 160.55 | top 85% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.9884 | 167.9884 | 167.99 | top 73% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.7028 | 169.7028 | 169.70 | top 52% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.8572 | 162.8572 | 162.86 | top 73% |
“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 79% | 91.8% | 91.8% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-23 | BBQ, Blues & Brews on the Bay 🏅 North Bend, OR | 26 / 33 (661.0968) | 28 (160.5484) | 24 (167.9884) | 17 (169.7028) | 24 (162.8572) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 ↗ | Master | #1159 (58 pts) | #1213 (58 pts) | #1044 (63 pts) | #878 (98 pts) | #944 (63 pts) |