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.
Lexington Smoke and Fire 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 106 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 Lexington Smoke and Fire has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head11 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Lexington Smoke and Fire's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 7 years after Lexington Smoke and Fire did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Lexington Smoke and Fire 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 Lexington Smoke and Fire's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Lexington Smoke and Fire's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 153.1316 | 153.1316 | 153.13 | top 85% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 142.8000 | 142.8000 | 142.80 | top 95% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 148.0456 | 148.0456 | 148.05 | top 92% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 152.5600 | 152.5600 | 152.56 | 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 28% | 22.4% | 22.4% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-10-03 | 36th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbeque- Open Kansas City, MO | 172 / 606 (161.1084) | 517 (153.1316) | 577 (142.8000) | 558 (148.0456) | 461 (152.5600) |