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.
What's Smoking? 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 101 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 What's Smoking? 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-headThey turned up 6 years after What's Smoking? did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with What's Smoking? 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 163.4172 | 155.9772 | 159.70 | top 46% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 166.8916 | 154.2168 | 160.55 | top 31% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 156.0000 | 152.5944 | 154.30 | top 59% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.8572 | 142.3316 | 148.59 | top 71% |
“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 | 100% | top 42% | 88.6% | 88.6% |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 59% | 84.5% | 84.5% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-02-03 | Melbourne Barbecue Festival Melbourn, 8008 | 11 / 26 (637.7604) | 10 (163.4172) | 4 (166.8916) | 19 (152.5944) | 17 (154.8572) |
| 2016-02-05 | The Yaks Melbourne BBQ Festival Melbourne, AU | 20 / 34 (608.5256) | 18 (155.9772) | 16 (154.2168) | 15 (156.0000) | 26 (142.3316) |