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.
The Smokin 69th 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 144 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 The Smokin 69th 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 The Smokin 69th on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 6 years after The Smokin 69th did, first appearing in 2019.
⚔ 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 | 162.7884 | 153.6572 | 158.22 | top 75% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 173.1200 | 149.0856 | 161.10 | top 55% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.9656 | 142.7884 | 151.38 | top 84% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.0972 | 160.0000 | 160.55 | top 58% |
“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 77% | 88.9% | 88.9% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 85% | 86.5% | 86.5% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-09-19 | 20th Annual Decatur Jaycee's Riverfest Decatur, AL | 58 / 75 (639.7940) | 49 (162.7884) | 12 (173.1200) | 75 (142.7884) | 46 (161.0972) |
| 2013-09-13 | Decatur Jaycees 19th Annual Riverfest Decatur, AL | 68 / 80 (622.7084) | 68 (153.6572) | 75 (149.0856) | 55 (159.9656) | 44 (160.0000) |