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.
Where Theres Smoke Theres Dinner 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 146 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 Where Theres Smoke Theres Dinner's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 9 contests, alongside a 33% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Where Theres Smoke Theres Dinner on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2013, 6 years before Where Theres Smoke Theres Dinner's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Where Theres Smoke Theres Dinner's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Where Theres Smoke Theres Dinner's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 145.1316 | 145.1316 | 145.13 | top 92% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.6916 | 157.6916 | 157.69 | top 62% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 145.1428 | 145.1428 | 145.14 | top 88% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 143.4744 | 143.4744 | 143.47 | top 96% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 92% | 82.1% | 82.1% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-10-25 | Sunshine Coast BBQ Championships Palmview, Su Qld 4553 | 24 / 26 (591.4404) | 24 (145.1316) | 16 (157.6916) | 23 (145.1428) | 25 (143.4744) |