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 BAD HABIT 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 123 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 BAD HABIT has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head52 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where SMOKING BAD HABIT's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 9 years after SMOKING BAD HABIT did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with SMOKING BAD HABIT 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-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where SMOKING BAD HABIT's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 176.0000 | 158.8570 | 167.43 | top 37% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.4284 | 160.0000 | 163.71 | top 30% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.4286 | 166.8568 | 167.14 | top 26% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 156.5712 | 154.2856 | 155.43 | top 65% |
“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 31% | 91.3% | 90.8% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-05-10 | Platte City BBQ Cook-Off Platte City, MO | 22 / 52 (649.7134) | 37 (158.8570) | 13 (167.4284) | 17 (166.8568) | 37 (156.5712) |
| 2013-04-19 | 5th Annual VFW Post 846 BBQ Challenge (FULL) Overland Park, KS | 15 / 73 (657.7142) | 2 (176.0000) | 26 (160.0000) | 14 (167.4286) | 43 (154.2856) |