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.
Smoking Joe Barber Q 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 118 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 Smoking Joe Barber Q has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head7 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Smoking Joe Barber Q's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head21 contests and no Grand Championship yet — a rating made of 10% top-10 finishes rather than wins.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Smoking Joe Barber Q 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 Smoking Joe Barber Q's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 7 years after Smoking Joe Barber Q did, first appearing in 2020.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.1200 | 161.1200 | 161.12 | top 51% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.1428 | 165.1428 | 165.14 | top 27% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.8112 | 162.8112 | 162.81 | top 41% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.7028 | 161.7028 | 161.70 | top 38% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 32% | 90.4% | 90.4% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-10-03 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 171 / 535 (650.7768) | 275 (161.1200) | 146 (165.1428) | 221 (162.8112) | 203 (161.7028) |