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.
Lil Smokies 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 Lil Smokies 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 Lil Smokies 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-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 | 152.4912 | 151.3944 | 151.94 | top 90% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164.5372 | 163.4172 | 163.98 | top 51% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.9772 | 158.7884 | 161.38 | top 64% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.7028 | 155.4056 | 158.55 | top 65% |
“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 70% | 89.1% | 89.1% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 67% | 87.5% | 87.5% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-09-09 | *Independence Fire & Ice BBQ Independence, MO | 53 / 76 (641.5884) | 72 (152.4912) | 45 (163.4172) | 49 (163.9772) | 47 (161.7028) |
| 2015-09-11 | Independence Fire & Ice BBQ Independence, MO | 51 / 76 (630.1256) | 65 (151.3944) | 33 (164.5372) | 48 (158.7884) | 52 (155.4056) |