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.
Four Nuts & A Smoker 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 142 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 Four Nuts & A Smoker has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThis is the highest they've ever been rated, 9 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Head-to-head18 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Four Nuts & A Smoker's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head22 contests and no Grand Championship yet — a rating made of 23% top-10 finishes rather than wins.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 5 years after Four Nuts & A Smoker did, first appearing in 2019.
⚔ Head-to-head4 straight overall top-10s says this rating is a moving target.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.0116 | 168.0116 | 168.01 | top 35% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 141.6344 | 141.6344 | 141.63 | top 98% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 143.3828 | 143.3828 | 143.38 | top 97% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 142.2172 | 142.2172 | 142.22 | top 94% |
“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 95% | 82.7% | 82.7% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-10-02 | 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 522 / 552 (595.2460) | 193 (168.0116) | 539 (141.6344) | 533 (143.3828) | 519 (142.2172) |