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.
SMOKING REDWOOD 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 134 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 SMOKING REDWOOD has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head11 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where SMOKING REDWOOD's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1551 at their best, 63 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-head29 contests and no Grand Championship yet.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 7 years after SMOKING REDWOOD did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with SMOKING REDWOOD on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.7372 | 157.7372 | 157.74 | top 74% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 147.9772 | 137.1428 | 142.56 | top 94% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 151.4284 | 149.1084 | 150.27 | top 86% |
| Brisket | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 146.2400 | 138.8000 | 142.52 | top 93% |
“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.
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 90% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 96% |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 90% | 61.9% | 61.9% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 96% | 80.9% | 80.9% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-10-11 | Holmes Drywall BBQ Cookoff (Invitational Competitor's Series) unrated Kansas City, MO | 9 / 10 (445.6456) | — | 9 (147.9772) | 8 (151.4284) | 9 (146.2400) |
| 2015-10-03 | 36th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbeque- Open Kansas City, MO | 584 / 606 (582.7884) | 449 (157.7372) | 599 (137.1428) | 553 (149.1084) | 577 (138.8000) |