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.
Cobia Smokes 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.
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Cobia Smokes has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1529 at their best, 43 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Cobia Smokes's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2013, 6 years before Cobia Smokes's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Cobia Smokes on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Cobia Smokes's is still finding its level.
⚔ 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 94% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 148.5372 | 148.5372 | 148.54 | top 92% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 143.9772 | 143.9772 | 143.98 | top 98% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 147.9200 | 147.9200 | 147.92 | top 92% |
“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 98% | 81.2% | 81.2% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-07-26 | Smoke in the Grove 🏅 Spring Grove, PA | 52 / 53 (584.9372) | 50 (144.5028) | 49 (148.5372) | 52 (143.9772) | 49 (147.9200) |