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.
Blowing Smoke has 4 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 114 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 Blowing Smoke has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1565 at their best, 113 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-head90 contests to 4: their number has had years to settle where Blowing Smoke's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 6 years after Blowing Smoke did, first appearing in 2019.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Blowing Smoke on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headCareers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.5716 | 143.4172 | 154.66 | top 84% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.8000 | 150.8456 | 154.14 | top 79% |
| Pork | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 152.5600 | 149.6800 | 151.40 | top 94% |
| Brisket | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 153.6572 | 143.9544 | 149.68 | top 92% |
“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.
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| TN | 2 | 0 | top 94% |
| MO | 1 | 0 | top 100% |
| KS | 1 | 0 | top 91% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 3 | 0 | top 93% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 100% |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -13.7 | Rock N Ribs BBQ Festival | 2015-04-24 |
| -13.4 | Fourth Annual Bull Moose | 2014-04-04 |
| -12.3 | National Bar-B-Que Derby | 2013-09-06 |
| -8.7 | Cumberland Plateau BBQ Cook-off and Cruise In | 2016-07-08 |
| 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 91% | 86% | 86% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 100% | 21% | 21% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 97% | 83.8% | 83.8% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 91% | 84.8% | 84.8% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-07-08 | Cumberland Plateau BBQ Cook-off and Cruise In Jamestown, TN | 20 / 22 (619.3716) | 17 (160.5716) | 18 (153.1888) | 22 (151.9540) | 19 (153.6572) |
| 2015-04-24 | Rock N Ribs BBQ Festival Springfield, MO | 63 / 63 (150.8456) | — | 45 (150.8456) | — | — |
| 2014-04-04 | Fourth Annual Bull Moose Somerville, TN | 30 / 31 (603.3144) | 31 (143.4172) | 26 (158.8000) | 30 (149.6800) | 28 (151.4172) |
| 2013-09-06 | National Bar-B-Que Derby Derby, KS | 32 / 35 (610.2284) | 26 (160.0000) | 28 (153.7140) | 30 (152.5600) | 35 (143.9544) |