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.
Smail's Good BBQ 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 126 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 Smail's Good BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Smail's Good BBQ 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-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2014.
⚔ 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 | 166.2628 | 154.8228 | 160.54 | top 49% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.9312 | 151.9544 | 153.94 | top 77% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2628 | 155.9656 | 161.11 | top 53% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.9544 | 148.5256 | 156.24 | top 61% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Central State BBQ Cook Off Paola Roots Festival | 2 | 31 | 0 | top 64% | 2015-08-28 |
| 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 48% | 90.1% | 90.1% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 80% | 85.5% | 85.5% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-08-28 | East Central State BBQ Cook Off Paola Roots Festival Paola, KS | 31 / 65 (648.4344) | 19 (166.2628) | 55 (151.9544) | 23 (166.2628) | 27 (163.9544) |
| 2014-08-22 | East Central State BBQ Cook Off Paola Roots Festival Paola, KS | 55 / 69 (615.2452) | 47 (154.8228) | 48 (155.9312) | 49 (155.9656) | 55 (148.5256) |