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' Bunz 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 133 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' Bunz 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 6 years after Smokin' Bunz did, first appearing in 2021.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Smokin' Bunz 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 | 161.1544 | 158.2288 | 159.69 | top 67% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.4516 | 153.1084 | 156.28 | top 73% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164.5712 | 150.8228 | 157.70 | top 70% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.9428 | 139.3712 | 147.66 | top 84% |
“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 86% | 85.9% | 85.9% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 79% | 86.7% | 86.7% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-10-29 | 37th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue(OPEN) Kansas City, KS | 481 / 557 (618.2052) | 353 (161.1544) | 465 (153.1084) | 276 (164.5712) | 533 (139.3712) |
| 2015-05-29 | Kelley Wilson Memorial BBQ Competition Kansas City, MO | 34 / 43 (624.4460) | 30 (158.2288) | 27 (159.4516) | 39 (150.8228) | 31 (155.9428) |