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.
Midnight Smokers BBQ Team Isidor 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 118 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.
6 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Midnight Smokers BBQ Team Isidor's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 7 years after Midnight Smokers BBQ Team Isidor did, first appearing in 2024.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Midnight Smokers BBQ Team Isidor 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 Midnight Smokers BBQ Team Isidor's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Midnight Smokers BBQ Team Isidor's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2014, 3 years before Midnight Smokers BBQ Team Isidor's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 146.7884 | 146.7884 | 146.79 | top 79% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.9772 | 155.9772 | 155.98 | top 70% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 153.0856 | 153.0856 | 153.09 | top 65% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.1200 | 161.1200 | 161.12 | top 44% |
“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 65% | 85.7% | 85.7% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-02-03 | *Humble Rodeo & BBQ ( WFC Qualifier) Humble, TX | 89 / 136 (616.9712) | 107 (146.7884) | 95 (155.9772) | 89 (153.0856) | 60 (161.1200) |