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.
4 SMOKIN' NUTS 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 119 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 4 SMOKIN' NUTS 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 10 years after 4 SMOKIN' NUTS did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with 4 SMOKIN' NUTS 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 | 166.8572 | 158.8228 | 162.84 | top 46% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.2516 | 150.2744 | 156.26 | top 60% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.3828 | 154.8228 | 159.10 | top 64% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.1088 | 155.4172 | 160.26 | top 45% |
“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.
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shawnee Great Grillers State Championship | 2 | 57 | 0 | top 56% | 2014-09-26 |
| 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 62% | 88.3% | 88.3% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 50% | 89% | 89% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-09-26 | Shawnee Great Grillers State Championship 🏅 Shawnee, KS | 69 / 112 (635.9316) | 36 (166.8572) | 86 (150.2744) | 60 (163.3828) | 70 (155.4172) |
| 2013-09-27 | Shawnee Great Grillers State Championship 🏅 Shawnee, KS | 57 / 114 (641.0060) | 69 (158.8228) | 49 (162.2516) | 85 (154.8228) | 31 (165.1088) |