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.
Tall Boys and Lil' Smoke 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 125 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.
2 contests in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Tall Boys and Lil' Smoke 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 Tall Boys and Lil' Smoke on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2017.
⚔ 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 | 162.2284 | 156.5600 | 159.39 | top 72% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.9316 | 139.9544 | 147.94 | top 92% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171.9772 | 160.5256 | 166.25 | top 56% |
| Brisket | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 170.2856 | 159.3712 | 164.83 | top 49% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apple Blossom Bar-B-Q | 2 | 25 | 0 | top 71% | 2018-05-04 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 68% | 90.1% | 90.1% |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 74% | 87.2% | 87.2% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-05-04 | Apple Blossom Bar-B-Q St. Joseph, MO | 25 / 37 (648.9712) | 26 (162.2284) | 31 (155.9316) | 30 (160.5256) | 10 (170.2856) |
| 2017-05-05 | Apple Blossom Bar-B-Q St. Joseph, MO | 29 / 39 (627.8628) | 29 (156.5600) | 39 (139.9544) | 12 (171.9772) | 28 (159.3712) |