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.
ISLAND 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 140 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 ISLAND SMOKE 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 ISLAND SMOKE's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with ISLAND SMOKE 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-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2013.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.3944 | 137.7152 | 146.55 | top 95% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.8000 | 148.0000 | 153.40 | top 91% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2858 | 157.1200 | 161.70 | top 67% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.4286 | 153.6456 | 154.54 | top 83% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 99% | 86.8% | 86.8% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 91% | 84.4% | 84.4% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-11-08 | World Barbecue Championship Orange Beach, AL | 92 / 93 (624.9600) | 89 (155.3944) | 81 (158.8000) | 87 (157.1200) | 88 (153.6456) |
| 2013-06-15 | Treasure Island International BBQ Championship Welch, MN | 62 / 68 (607.4296) | 64 (137.7152) | 64 (148.0000) | 28 (166.2858) | 49 (155.4286) |