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.
BANDIT AND THE SMOKERS 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.
2 contests in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team BANDIT AND THE SMOKERS 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 9 years after BANDIT AND THE SMOKERS did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with BANDIT AND THE SMOKERS 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 | 165.1200 | 161.6912 | 163.41 | top 49% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.1544 | 151.9432 | 156.55 | top 68% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.6912 | 154.8688 | 156.28 | top 71% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.7488 | 149.6456 | 155.70 | top 63% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 68% | 88.8% | 88.8% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 68% | 86.7% | 86.7% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-10-02 | 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 373 / 552 (639.4632) | 356 (161.6912) | 326 (161.1544) | 446 (154.8688) | 277 (161.7488) |
| 2013-10-03 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 366 / 535 (624.4000) | 182 (165.1200) | 407 (151.9432) | 330 (157.6912) | 410 (149.6456) |