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.
Holy Smoke Discover BBQ 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 153 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 Holy Smoke Discover BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Holy Smoke Discover BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2015, 10 years before Holy Smoke Discover BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Holy Smoke Discover BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2022, 3 years before Holy Smoke Discover BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2019, 6 years before Holy Smoke Discover BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.8572 | 166.8572 | 166.86 | top 77% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 145.1200 | 145.1200 | 145.12 | top 100% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.2744 | 158.2744 | 158.27 | top 92% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.2172 | 154.2172 | 154.22 | top 87% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 97% | 86.7% | 86.7% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-08-15 | BBQ & Fly-In on the River 🏅 Excelsior Springs, MO | 60 / 62 (624.4688) | 48 (166.8572) | 62 (145.1200) | 57 (158.2744) | 54 (154.2172) |