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.
J.R.'s Smokehouse 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 J.R.'s Smokehouse 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 10 years after J.R.'s Smokehouse did, first appearing in 2024.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with J.R.'s Smokehouse 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 | 162.8456 | 155.3944 | 159.12 | top 66% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 152.5372 | 137.6572 | 145.10 | top 88% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.8228 | 145.1428 | 153.98 | top 68% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 149.6916 | 134.1828 | 141.94 | top 84% |
“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 78% | 84.8% | 84.8% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 91% | 82% | 82% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-06-19 | 22nd Colorado BBQ Challenge Frisco, CO | 45 / 58 (610.2172) | 31 (162.8456) | 45 (152.5372) | 52 (145.1428) | 41 (149.6916) |
| 2014-08-15 | Conifer Mountain BBQ Challenge Conifer, CO | 39 / 43 (590.0572) | 34 (155.3944) | 42 (137.6572) | 20 (162.8228) | 42 (134.1828) |