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' Pokes 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 141 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' Pokes has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThis is the highest they've ever been rated, 29 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Smokin' Pokes 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 | 164.5714 | 145.1200 | 154.85 | top 58% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 153.7144 | 137.0856 | 145.40 | top 83% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.2512 | 151.9998 | 153.13 | top 83% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 150.8228 | 140.5714 | 145.70 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OK | 1 | 0 | top 97% |
| KS | 1 | 0 | top 86% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 97% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 86% |
| 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 97% | 81.6% | 81.6% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 86% | 84.8% | 84.8% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-04-03 | Stillwater Elks Lodge Blazathon Stillwater, OK | 33 / 34 (587.2796) | 29 (145.1200) | 32 (137.0856) | 28 (154.2512) | 29 (150.8228) |
| 2013-05-10 | Sertoma 48 BBQ Lawrence, KS | 42 / 49 (610.8570) | 15 (164.5714) | 35 (153.7144) | 41 (151.9998) | 47 (140.5714) |