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.
Bubbas Smokeyard BBQ 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 146 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 Bubbas Smokeyard BBQ 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-headLevel with Bubbas Smokeyard BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 6 years after Bubbas Smokeyard BBQ did, first appearing in 2019.
⚔ 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 | 162.8228 | 158.8572 | 160.84 | top 64% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 150.7884 | 143.3716 | 147.08 | top 93% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.1200 | 154.9144 | 156.02 | top 78% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2516 | 104.0228 | 135.14 | top 72% |
“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 81% | 88.5% | 88.5% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 97% | 77.9% | 77.9% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-05-08 | West Coast BBQ Classic Long Beach, CA | 46 / 57 (636.9828) | 35 (162.8228) | 51 (150.7884) | 47 (157.1200) | 26 (166.2516) |
| 2013-10-04 | Dana Point State BBQ Championship Dana Point, CA | 96 / 99 (561.1660) | 65 (158.8572) | 95 (143.3716) | 72 (154.9144) | 97 (104.0228) |