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.
Smoke Responsibly 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 144 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 Smoke Responsibly has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1531 at their best, 44 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-head56 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Smoke Responsibly's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Smoke Responsibly on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 9 contests, alongside a 33% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ 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 | 163.4400 | 158.8800 | 161.16 | top 68% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.2628 | 151.3944 | 152.83 | top 87% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.0856 | 153.1200 | 159.10 | top 70% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.9656 | 157.6572 | 158.81 | top 57% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 73% | 88.2% | 88.2% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 84% | 87.3% | 87.3% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-10-29 | 37th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue(OPEN) Kansas City, KS | 408 / 557 (635.3256) | 393 (158.8800) | 481 (151.3944) | 271 (165.0856) | 327 (159.9656) |
| 2015-05-15 | 20th Annual Platte City BBQ Cook-Off Platte City, MO | 43 / 51 (628.4800) | 33 (163.4400) | 45 (154.2628) | 47 (153.1200) | 28 (157.6572) |