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.
Top Hat Smokers 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 148 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 Top Hat Smokers 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 Top Hat Smokers on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 9 years after Top Hat Smokers did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head7 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Top Hat Smokers's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 145.7140 | 143.3596 | 144.54 | top 91% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 141.0744 | 102.2854 | 121.68 | top 90% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 139.4284 | 127.9996 | 133.71 | top 94% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.2744 | 117.7144 | 135.99 | top 73% |
“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 87% | 80.3% | 80.3% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 98% | 68.6% | 68.6% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-05-09 | Smoke in the Valley BBQ Competition Green Lane, PA | 47 / 54 (578.1368) | 51 (143.3596) | 44 (141.0744) | 48 (139.4284) | 25 (154.2744) |
| 2013-05-10 | Green Lane Fire CO's Green Lane, PA | 57 / 58 (493.7134) | 51 (145.7140) | 57 (102.2854) | 57 (127.9996) | 58 (117.7144) |