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.
DJ Smoke 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 139 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 DJ Smoke has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head7 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where DJ Smoke's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 9 years after DJ Smoke did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with DJ Smoke 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 | 161.2000 | 154.8572 | 158.03 | top 60% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.0972 | 139.4286 | 148.26 | top 84% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.4172 | 145.7140 | 152.57 | top 70% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 143.4172 | 133.7140 | 138.57 | top 91% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NH | 1 | 0 | top 76% |
| MA | 1 | 0 | top 94% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 94% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 76% |
| 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 76% | 86.3% | 86.3% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 94% | 79.7% | 79.7% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-05-29 | Monadnock Up in Smoke BBQ Fest Swanzey, NH | 37 / 49 (621.1316) | 27 (161.2000) | 36 (157.0972) | 29 (159.4172) | 45 (143.4172) |
| 2013-05-18 | The Lexington Battle-Green BBQ Festival Lexington, MA | 29 / 31 (573.7138) | 20 (154.8572) | 29 (139.4286) | 25 (145.7140) | 28 (133.7140) |