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.
Smokehouse BBQ & Home Cooking 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 142 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 Smokehouse BBQ & Home Cooking has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1505 at their best, 30 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 9 years after Smokehouse BBQ & Home Cooking did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Smokehouse BBQ & Home Cooking 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-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 149.1200 | 120.9028 | 135.01 | top 96% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 143.4400 | 143.3828 | 143.41 | top 96% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.3940 | 141.7028 | 148.55 | top 88% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 126.8228 | 122.8116 | 124.82 | top 96% |
“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.
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SC Festival of Discovery | 2 | 75 | 0 | top 94% | 2016-07-07 |
| 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% | 79.3% | 79.3% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 97% | 74% | 74% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-07-07 | SC Festival of Discovery Greenwood, SC | 75 / 82 (570.7084) | 75 (149.1200) | 77 (143.3828) | 63 (155.3940) | 78 (122.8116) |
| 2013-07-11 | SC Festival of Discovery Greenwood, SC | 76 / 78 (532.8684) | 78 (120.9028) | 76 (143.4400) | 77 (141.7028) | 76 (126.8228) |