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.
Silverado 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 149 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 Silverado 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-headThey turned up 9 years after Silverado Smokers did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Silverado Smokers on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head7 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Silverado Smokers's is still finding its level.
⚔ 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 | 146.8570 | 139.4172 | 143.14 | top 91% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 140.5716 | 134.3316 | 137.45 | top 96% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 133.7028 | 20.0000 | 76.85 | top 95% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 129.7142 | 129.6800 | 129.70 | top 94% |
“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 88% | 74.6% | 74.6% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 95% | 60.7% | 60.7% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-05-02 | Bixby BBQ'N Blues Festival Bixby, OK | 70 / 80 (537.1316) | 73 (139.4172) | 77 (134.3316) | 74 (133.7028) | 75 (129.6800) |
| 2013-05-03 | Bixby BBQ & Blues Festival Bixby, OK | 84 / 88 (437.1428) | 79 (146.8570) | 84 (140.5716) | 85 (20.0000) | 83 (129.7142) |