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 Bitewings 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 128 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 Bitewings has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head7 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Smokin Bitewings's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head12 contests and no Grand Championship yet.
⚔ Head-to-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2013.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1531 at their best, 35 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Smokin Bitewings on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.2516 | 142.2856 | 148.27 | top 85% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 147.4056 | 20.0000 | 83.70 | top 92% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 136.5600 | 131.4056 | 133.98 | top 98% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 149.1200 | 137.1428 | 143.13 | top 88% |
“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 17% | 66.3% | 66.3% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 96% | 79.2% | 79.2% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-10-03 | 36th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbeque- Open Kansas City, MO | 101 / 606 (477.0856) | 584 (142.2856) | 605 (20.0000) | 596 (136.5600) | 500 (149.1200) |
| 2013-10-03 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 511 / 535 (570.2056) | 396 (154.2516) | 447 (147.4056) | 526 (131.4056) | 497 (137.1428) |