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.
South Side 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 160 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 South Side 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 South Side Smokers's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with South Side 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 South Side Smokers's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2019.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where South Side 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 | 170.8344 | 170.8344 | 170.83 | top 27% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 141.6344 | 141.6344 | 141.63 | top 98% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 153.0856 | 153.0856 | 153.09 | top 88% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 152.5028 | 152.5028 | 152.50 | top 88% |
“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 88% | 85.8% | 85.8% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-03-15 | Qlathe BBQ Championship 🏅 Olathe, KS | 56 / 64 (618.0572) | 17 (170.8344) | 63 (141.6344) | 56 (153.0856) | 56 (152.5028) |