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.
Holota 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 145 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 Holota Smoke 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 Holota 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-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 | 156.5600 | 155.4172 | 155.99 | top 75% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 150.8228 | 139.4400 | 145.13 | top 90% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 156.0000 | 146.2972 | 151.15 | top 84% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 150.2744 | 123.9772 | 137.13 | top 90% |
“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 88% | 85.2% | 85.2% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 97% | 78.5% | 78.5% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-10-02 | 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 484 / 552 (613.6572) | 437 (156.5600) | 484 (150.8228) | 432 (156.0000) | 454 (150.2744) |
| 2013-10-03 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 518 / 535 (565.1316) | 374 (155.4172) | 499 (139.4400) | 484 (146.2972) | 524 (123.9772) |