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.
Cherokee Nation has 2 rated contests — 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 145 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 Cherokee Nation has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2016.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Cherokee Nation on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 149.7144 | 145.0972 | 147.41 | top 94% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 145.7372 | 136.5028 | 141.12 | top 96% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 146.8456 | 141.1544 | 144.00 | top 93% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 147.9544 | 143.3944 | 145.67 | top 85% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 81% | 81.2% | 81.2% |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 96% | 79.4% | 79.4% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-10-26 | *10th Annual Smokin the Fort BBQ & Music Festival Fort Gibson, OK | 22 / 27 (584.5604) | 24 (149.7144) | 25 (145.7372) | 25 (141.1544) | 21 (147.9544) |
| 2016-10-21 | Smokin' The Fort-BBQ & Bluegrass Festival FortGibson, OK | 27 / 28 (571.8400) | 28 (145.0972) | 28 (136.5028) | 26 (146.8456) | 26 (143.3944) |