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.
Smitty A's 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 147 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 Smitty A's 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 Smitty A's BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Smitty A's 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 Smitty A's BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2015.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Smitty A's 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 | 153.6800 | 153.6800 | 153.68 | top 75% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 148.5144 | 148.5144 | 148.51 | top 86% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 153.1200 | 153.1200 | 153.12 | top 81% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 130.7544 | 130.7544 | 130.75 | top 97% |
“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 96% | 81.4% | 81.4% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-06-26 | Great Lenexa BBQ Battle - Kansas State Championship 🏅 Lenexa, KS | 175 / 183 (586.0688) | 138 (153.6800) | 157 (148.5144) | 148 (153.1200) | 178 (130.7544) |