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.
STILL SMOKING BBQ 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 116 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 STILL SMOKING BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where STILL SMOKING BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 9 years after STILL SMOKING BBQ did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with STILL SMOKING BBQ 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 | 161.7028 | 137.6800 | 149.69 | top 79% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.7144 | 157.6800 | 157.70 | top 71% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2400 | 149.1200 | 157.68 | top 65% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.3600 | 150.2628 | 152.81 | top 76% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 64% | 89% | 89% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 95% | 82.6% | 82.6% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-10-03 | 36th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbeque- Open Kansas City, MO | 388 / 606 (641.0172) | 366 (161.7028) | 432 (157.7144) | 239 (166.2400) | 425 (155.3600) |
| 2014-10-02 | 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 523 / 552 (594.7428) | 542 (137.6800) | 395 (157.6800) | 501 (149.1200) | 456 (150.2628) |