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.
Smokem-Up Grillers 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 126 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 Smokem-Up Grillers has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head16 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Smokem-Up Grillers's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 11 years after Smokem-Up Grillers did, first appearing in 2025.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Smokem-Up Grillers on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Smokem-Up Grillers's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Smokem-Up Grillers's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.4400 | 163.4400 | 163.44 | top 42% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 151.9772 | 151.9772 | 151.98 | top 80% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.0856 | 157.0856 | 157.09 | top 67% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 144.4916 | 144.4916 | 144.49 | top 88% |
“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% | 85.7% | 85.7% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-08-22 | East Central State BBQ Cook Off Paola Roots Festival Paola, KS | 53 / 69 (616.9944) | 29 (163.4400) | 55 (151.9772) | 46 (157.0856) | 61 (144.4916) |