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.
Olde Smokers 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 109 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 Olde Smokers has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Olde Smokers's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1558 at their best, 49 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 11 years after Olde Smokers did, first appearing in 2024.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Olde Smokers 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 Olde Smokers's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164.0228 | 164.0228 | 164.02 | top 37% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.8572 | 162.8572 | 162.86 | top 39% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.2628 | 170.2628 | 170.26 | top 12% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.2628 | 158.2628 | 158.26 | top 46% |
“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 25% | 91% | 91% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-09-27 | Shawnee Great Grillers State Championship 🏅 Shawnee, KS | 29 / 114 (655.4056) | 42 (164.0228) | 44 (162.8572) | 14 (170.2628) | 52 (158.2628) |