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.
BUFFALO SMOKIN BANDITS 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 135 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 BUFFALO SMOKIN BANDITS 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-headThey turned up 8 years after BUFFALO SMOKIN BANDITS did, first appearing in 2021.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with BUFFALO SMOKIN BANDITS 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 | 161.1428 | 147.4056 | 154.27 | top 66% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 156.5712 | 149.1200 | 152.85 | top 68% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.7600 | 141.7144 | 151.74 | top 77% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.4056 | 131.4284 | 145.42 | top 69% |
“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.
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| OK | 1 | 0 | top 81% |
| CO | 1 | 0 | top 75% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 81% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 75% |
| 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 81% | 85.8% | 85.8% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 75% | 82.1% | 82.1% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-08-07 | CASA's Grab, Root and Growl BBQ Woodward, OK | 21 / 26 (617.6912) | 25 (147.4056) | 24 (149.1200) | 19 (161.7600) | 14 (159.4056) |
| 2013-06-14 | Colorado Barbecue Challenge Frisco, CO | 51 / 68 (590.8568) | 24 (161.1428) | 30 (156.5712) | 55 (141.7144) | 57 (131.4284) |