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.
CARTER'S SMOKE HOUSE 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 142 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 CARTER'S SMOKE HOUSE has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where CARTER'S SMOKE HOUSE's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 5 years after CARTER'S SMOKE HOUSE did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with CARTER'S SMOKE HOUSE 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 | 156.5372 | 151.9084 | 154.22 | top 94% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 152.4916 | 143.3600 | 147.93 | top 98% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.9656 | 149.0628 | 154.51 | top 98% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.0628 | 151.3600 | 154.21 | top 90% |
“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 92% | 84.8% | 84.8% |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 100% | 84.9% | 84.9% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-04-20 | *Cornelia Apple Blossom BBQ Competition Cornelia, GA | 24 / 26 (610.5256) | 25 (151.9084) | 25 (152.4916) | 26 (149.0628) | 21 (157.0628) |
| 2017-04-21 | Cornelia Apple Blossom Competition Cornelia, GA | 26 / 26 (611.2228) | 24 (156.5372) | 26 (143.3600) | 25 (159.9656) | 26 (151.3600) |