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.
Smokin' in the Boy's Room BBQ has 1 rated contest — 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 141 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 Smokin' in the Boy's Room BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Smokin' in the Boy's Room BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 9 years after Smokin' in the Boy's Room BBQ did, first appearing in 2024.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Smokin' in the Boy's Room BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Smokin' in the Boy's Room BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Smokin' in the Boy's Room BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 152.5600 | 152.5600 | 152.56 | top 87% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.7028 | 169.7028 | 169.70 | top 22% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 152.0344 | 152.0344 | 152.03 | top 86% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 151.3828 | 151.3828 | 151.38 | top 79% |
“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 78% | 86.9% | 86.9% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-10-03 | 36th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbeque- Open Kansas City, MO | 472 / 606 (625.6800) | 525 (152.5600) | 134 (169.7028) | 521 (152.0344) | 480 (151.3828) |