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.
SmOakland 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 SmOakland has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1565 at their best, 66 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 6 contests, alongside a 17% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with SmOakland on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 7 years after SmOakland did, first appearing in 2021.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.8460 | 150.8344 | 152.84 | top 73% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 166.2972 | 154.8344 | 160.57 | top 47% |
| Pork | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 170.8456 | 165.1200 | 167.98 | top 12% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.2628 | 140.5372 | 147.40 | top 74% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oaktown Throwdown | 2 | 11 | 0 | top 58% | 2015-07-31 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 67% | 85.5% | 85.5% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 100% | top 50% | 89.2% | 89.2% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-07-31 | Oaktown Throwdown Oakland, CA | 18 / 27 (615.3376) | 21 (154.8460) | 19 (154.8344) | 5 (165.1200) | 23 (140.5372) |
| 2014-08-01 | Oaktown Throwdown Oakland, CA | 11 / 22 (642.2400) | 15 (150.8344) | 5 (166.2972) | 1 (170.8456) | 14 (154.2628) |