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.
Glass 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 148 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 Glass Smoke has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head8 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Glass Smoke's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 10 years after Glass Smoke did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Glass Smoke 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 Glass Smoke's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Glass Smoke's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 123.4284 | 123.4284 | 123.43 | top 100% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 163.4286 | 163.4286 | 163.43 | top 14% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 142.2856 | 142.2856 | 142.29 | top 83% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 134.2858 | 134.2858 | 134.29 | top 85% |
“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 | 100% | top 86% | 78.3% | 78.3% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-03-22 | Best of the Basin Barbeque Championship Midland, TX | 51 / 59 (563.4284) | 59 (123.4284) | 8 (163.4286) | 49 (142.2856) | 50 (134.2858) |