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.
Coon Trail Smokers 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 150 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 Coon Trail Smokers has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1565 at their best, 85 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-headLevel with Coon Trail Smokers on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 6 years after Coon Trail Smokers did, first appearing in 2019.
⚔ 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 | 158.2744 | 143.3828 | 150.83 | top 89% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.3084 | 144.5256 | 151.42 | top 78% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.1656 | 149.1200 | 155.14 | top 69% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 151.9772 | 150.3084 | 151.14 | top 78% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Illinois Bragging Rights | 2 | 41 | 0 | top 88% | 2015-10-09 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 98% | 83.6% | 83.6% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 77% | 85.4% | 85.4% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-10-09 | Central Illinois Bragging Rights Arthur, IL | 47 / 48 (602.2284) | 39 (158.2744) | 47 (144.5256) | 44 (149.1200) | 42 (150.3084) |
| 2013-10-11 | Central Illinois Bragging Rights Arthur, IL | 41 / 53 (614.8340) | 51 (143.3828) | 31 (158.3084) | 25 (161.1656) | 36 (151.9772) |