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.
Jason's Dream Smokers has 1 rated contest — 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 119 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 Jason's Dream Smokers has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThis is the highest they've ever been rated, 66 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Jason's Dream Smokers's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 6 years after Jason's Dream Smokers did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Jason's Dream Smokers on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Jason's Dream Smokers's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 174.2628 | 174.2628 | 174.26 | top 17% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 152.5604 | 152.5604 | 152.56 | top 87% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 156.5716 | 156.5716 | 156.57 | top 84% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.3600 | 159.3600 | 159.36 | top 69% |
“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 70% | 89.3% | 89.3% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-09-01 | 38th American Royal World Series of Barbecue (OPEN) Kansas City, KS | 285 / 407 (642.7548) | 68 (174.2628) | 354 (152.5604) | 341 (156.5716) | 282 (159.3600) |