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.
Dewey Smoke'm & Howe 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 125 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 Dewey Smoke'm & Howe 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 Dewey Smoke'm & Howe's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 5 years after Dewey Smoke'm & Howe did, first appearing in 2019.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Dewey Smoke'm & Howe 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 | 168.0000 | 159.4400 | 163.72 | top 64% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.9656 | 153.6800 | 158.82 | top 68% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.1200 | 160.5600 | 162.84 | top 62% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.2972 | 155.3600 | 158.83 | top 71% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Murphysboro Barbecue Cook-Off | 2 | 31 | 0 | top 65% | 2015-09-25 |
| 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 76% | 88% | 88% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 54% | 90.9% | 90.9% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-09-25 | Murphysboro Barbecue Cook-Off Murphysboro, IL | 42 / 55 (633.6000) | 45 (159.4400) | 43 (153.6800) | 28 (165.1200) | 44 (155.3600) |
| 2014-09-18 | Murphysboro Barbecue Cook-Off Murphysboro, IL | 31 / 57 (654.8228) | 26 (168.0000) | 33 (163.9656) | 42 (160.5600) | 35 (162.2972) |