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.
Two Men & 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 163 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 Two Men & A Smoker has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Two Men & A Smoker's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Two Men & A Smoker 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 Two Men & A Smoker's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 5 years after Two Men & A Smoker did, first appearing in 2019.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Two Men & A Smoker's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 153.0972 | 153.0972 | 153.10 | top 74% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.0972 | 161.0972 | 161.10 | top 43% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 146.8456 | 146.8456 | 146.85 | top 88% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 144.5256 | 144.5256 | 144.53 | top 86% |
“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 86% | 84.1% | 84.1% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-08-22 | East Central State BBQ Cook Off Paola Roots Festival Paola, KS | 59 / 69 (605.5656) | 51 (153.0972) | 30 (161.0972) | 61 (146.8456) | 59 (144.5256) |