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.
Big T's BBQ & Smokehouse 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 139 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 Big T's BBQ & Smokehouse has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head24 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Big T's BBQ & Smokehouse's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 6 years after Big T's BBQ & Smokehouse did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 9 contests, alongside a 33% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Big T's BBQ & Smokehouse 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-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 150.2856 | 146.8000 | 148.54 | top 85% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 171.9772 | 140.5256 | 156.25 | top 48% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.7256 | 128.5144 | 143.12 | top 77% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.8000 | 148.5144 | 153.66 | top 58% |
“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.
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 46% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 100% |
| 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 100% | 78.9% | 78.9% |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 100% | top 46% | 88.2% | 88.2% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-09-02 | BBQ on the Bow Calgary, T2W3J6 | 42 / 42 (567.8400) | 31 (150.2856) | 39 (140.5256) | 42 (128.5144) | 27 (148.5144) |
| 2016-09-03 | BBQ on the Bow Calgary, Alberta, CA | 16 / 35 (635.3028) | 34 (146.8000) | 1 (171.9772) | 19 (157.7256) | 18 (158.8000) |