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.
SOUTHERN JUSTICE SMOKERS 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 145 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.
2 contests in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team SOUTHERN JUSTICE SMOKERS 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-headLevel with SOUTHERN JUSTICE SMOKERS on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 8 years after SOUTHERN JUSTICE SMOKERS did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ 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 | 166.2628 | 161.6912 | 163.98 | top 51% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.7028 | 154.8000 | 162.25 | top 52% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 147.4172 | 141.6800 | 144.55 | top 96% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.8228 | 149.0740 | 157.95 | top 60% |
“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 83% | 86.4% | 86.4% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 70% | 88.2% | 88.2% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-10-29 | 37th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue(OPEN) Kansas City, KS | 460 / 557 (622.1480) | 347 (161.6912) | 141 (169.7028) | 543 (141.6800) | 487 (149.0740) |
| 2015-10-03 | 36th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbeque- Open Kansas City, MO | 427 / 606 (635.3028) | 235 (166.2628) | 476 (154.8000) | 567 (147.4172) | 197 (166.8228) |