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.
Little Smokies BBQ 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 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 Little Smokies BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Little Smokies BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 6 years after Little Smokies BBQ did, first appearing in 2021.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 9 contests, alongside a 33% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Little Smokies BBQ 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 Little Smokies BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 152.5600 | 152.5600 | 152.56 | top 80% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 141.1088 | 141.1088 | 141.11 | top 96% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 150.2056 | 150.2056 | 150.21 | top 89% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 153.0856 | 153.0856 | 153.09 | top 64% |
“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 | 0 | 0% | top 92% | 82.9% | 82.9% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-06-26 | Great Lenexa BBQ Battle - Kansas State Championship 🏅 Lenexa, KS | 168 / 183 (596.9600) | 147 (152.5600) | 176 (141.1088) | 162 (150.2056) | 117 (153.0856) |