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.
BROTHER'S IN SMOKE 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 123 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 BROTHER'S IN SMOKE 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-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2015.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with BROTHER'S IN SMOKE 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 | 158.2628 | 156.5716 | 157.42 | top 48% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 161.7028 | 145.1204 | 153.41 | top 63% |
| Pork | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 161.6800 | 157.7256 | 159.70 | top 36% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 143.9888 | 139.4172 | 141.70 | 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.
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| PA | 1 | 0 | top 67% |
| NY | 1 | 0 | top 47% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 67% |
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 47% |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 67% | 86.1% | 86.1% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 47% | 84% | 84% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-06-03 | Conquer The Grill Coudersport, PA | 12 / 18 (619.9888) | 11 (156.5716) | 8 (161.7028) | 9 (157.7256) | 15 (143.9888) |
| 2015-08-01 | 8th Annual Smokin at the Maples Manorville, NY | 15 / 32 (604.4804) | 11 (158.2628) | 26 (145.1204) | 7 (161.6800) | 27 (139.4172) |