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.
Smokin Beavers 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 125 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 Smokin Beavers 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 8 years after Smokin Beavers did, first appearing in 2024.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Smokin Beavers 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 | 149.0856 | 143.4172 | 146.25 | top 98% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.2628 | 145.6684 | 153.97 | top 87% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.5600 | 151.9656 | 160.26 | top 63% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.8000 | 154.2400 | 156.52 | 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.
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| SD | 1 | 0 | top 100% |
| MN | 1 | 0 | top 79% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 100% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 79% |
| 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% | 85% | 85% |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 79% | 86.4% | 86.4% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-06-16 | *Beresford Wheels 'n Squeals (RUSHMORE CUP QUALIFIER) Beresford, SD | 17 / 17 (611.8856) | 17 (143.4172) | 13 (162.2628) | 15 (151.9656) | 13 (154.2400) |
| 2016-08-26 | 9th Annual Big Island BBQ Albert Lea, MN | 38 / 48 (622.1140) | 46 (149.0856) | 47 (145.6684) | 18 (168.5600) | 31 (158.8000) |