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.
Texas Up In Smoke 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 112 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 Texas Up In Smoke has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1549 at their best, 37 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Texas Up In Smoke on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 5 years after Texas Up In Smoke did, first appearing in 2018.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.9772 | 155.4056 | 161.69 | top 51% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 173.1200 | 160.5600 | 166.84 | top 35% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2400 | 159.3828 | 162.81 | top 49% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.7144 | 151.9428 | 154.83 | top 66% |
“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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 49% | 90.6% | 89.7% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-10-03 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Invitational unrated Kansas City, MO | 142 / 174 (639.8628) | 67 (167.9772) | 113 (160.5600) | 134 (159.3828) | 154 (151.9428) |
| 2013-08-31 | City of Bedford Blues & BBQ Festival Bedford, TX | 14 / 89 (652.4800) | 56 (155.4056) | 4 (173.1200) | 19 (166.2400) | 38 (157.7144) |