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.
Recreational Smokers 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 153 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 Recreational Smokers has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Recreational Smokers's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Recreational Smokers 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 Recreational Smokers's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Recreational Smokers's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Recreational Smokers's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.3828 | 159.3828 | 159.38 | top 81% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 153.6456 | 153.6456 | 153.65 | top 93% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.6456 | 161.6456 | 161.65 | top 74% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 147.3488 | 147.3488 | 147.35 | 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 96% | 86.4% | 86.4% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-05-03 | The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ 🏅 Huntsville, AL | 52 / 54 (622.0228) | 44 (159.3828) | 50 (153.6456) | 40 (161.6456) | 52 (147.3488) |