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.
Jac Jac's Smokehouse 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 109 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 Jac Jac's Smokehouse has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Jac Jac's Smokehouse's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 8 years after Jac Jac's Smokehouse did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Jac Jac's Smokehouse 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 Jac Jac's Smokehouse's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Jac Jac's Smokehouse's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.8116 | 154.8116 | 154.81 | top 83% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 149.7028 | 149.7028 | 149.70 | top 91% |
| Pork | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 178.8800 | 178.8800 | 178.88 | top 1% |
| Brisket | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 169.7600 | 169.7600 | 169.76 | top 13% |
“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 | 1 | 100% | top 46% | 90.7% | 90.7% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-09-04 | City of Bedford Blues & BBQ Festival Bedford, TX | 32 / 70 (653.1544) | 58 (154.8116) | 64 (149.7028) | 1 (178.8800) | 9 (169.7600) |