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.
Smoke Damage BBQ 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 148 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 Smoke Damage BBQ 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-headLevel with Smoke Damage BBQ 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-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 | 167.4172 | 150.2744 | 158.85 | top 70% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 156.0228 | 145.0856 | 150.55 | top 90% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 172.5828 | 155.4056 | 163.99 | top 51% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.8456 | 159.3712 | 161.11 | top 60% |
“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.
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| *Smoke On the Trails | 2 | 52 | 0 | top 81% | 2018-09-28 |
| 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% | 88.6% | 88.6% |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 81% | 87.6% | 87.6% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-09-28 | *Smoke On the Trails Gardner, KS | 55 / 68 (638.2168) | 37 (167.4172) | 59 (156.0228) | 60 (155.4056) | 47 (159.3712) |
| 2017-09-29 | *Smoke On the Trails Gardner, KS | 52 / 64 (630.7884) | 55 (150.2744) | 60 (145.0856) | 9 (172.5828) | 33 (162.8456) |