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 TRUCKERS 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 153 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 TRUCKERS 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 8 years after SMOKIN TRUCKERS did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with SMOKIN TRUCKERS 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 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 173.7256 | 165.1428 | 169.43 | top 35% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.1772 | 153.6800 | 157.43 | top 76% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.6684 | 155.4284 | 158.55 | top 75% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.8228 | 136.5716 | 149.70 | top 79% |
“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.
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| MS | 1 | 0 | top 81% |
| LA | 1 | 0 | top 68% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 81% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 68% |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 74% | 89.3% | 88.2% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-05-29 | Hog Wild BBQ Cookoff and Family Festival Brookhaven, MS | 25 / 31 (626.9028) | 3 (173.7256) | 21 (161.1772) | 24 (155.4284) | 31 (136.5716) |
| 2015-03-27 | Smokin Blues & BBQ Hammond, LA | 38 / 56 (643.3140) | 34 (165.1428) | 47 (153.6800) | 41 (161.6684) | 33 (162.8228) |