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.
Smokin' Sprays 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 134 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 Smokin' Sprays 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 7 years after Smokin' Sprays did, first appearing in 2021.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Smokin' Sprays 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 | 163.4400 | 154.2400 | 158.84 | top 75% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.4172 | 158.8688 | 161.14 | top 69% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.1084 | 158.8000 | 161.95 | top 72% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.6800 | 162.2628 | 163.97 | top 51% |
“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 89% | 89.2% | 89.2% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 67% | 90.2% | 90.2% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-06-12 | Fire on the Frontier BBQ Classic Hays, KS | 31 / 35 (642.1372) | 30 (154.2400) | 24 (163.4172) | 30 (158.8000) | 21 (165.6800) |
| 2014-07-18 | Blues, BBQ & Bargains Hays, KS | 22 / 33 (649.6800) | 21 (163.4400) | 23 (158.8688) | 19 (165.1084) | 14 (162.2628) |