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' Stacks BBQ has 1 rated contest — 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 98 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.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2020, 4 years before Smokin' Stacks BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headCareers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2013, 11 years before Smokin' Stacks BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Smokin' Stacks BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2018, 6 years before Smokin' Stacks BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2017, 7 years before Smokin' Stacks BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
| Pork Ribs | 5 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 171.9772 | 166.3088 | 168.33 | top 34% |
| Pork | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
| Brisket | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | — | — | — |
| 2025 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | — | — | — |
| 2024 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 21% | — | — |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-31 | California State Fair BBQ Competition (ONE MEAT RIBS) Sacramento, CA | — | — | 9 (166.8344) | — | — |
| 2025-09-20 | 12 Bridge Rib Cook-Off (ONE MEAT RIBS) Lincoln, CA | — | — | 5 (169.1200) | — | — |
| 2025-07-12 | California State Fair BBQ Contest (ONE MEAT RIBS) Sacramento, CA | — | — | 4 (167.3944) | — | — |
| 2024-09-20 | 12 Bridge Rib Cook-Off (ONE MEAT RIBS) Lincoln, CA | — | — | 2 (171.9772) | — | — |
| 2024-04-26 | Lodi BeerFest & State BBQ Championship 🏅 Lodi, CA | 7 / 34 (331.4288) | — | 5 (166.3088) | — | — |