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.
Smokito's 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 139 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.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2023, 3 years before Smokito's's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2013, 12 years before Smokito's's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Smokito's on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2019, 7 years before Smokito's's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2019, 7 years before Smokito's'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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 174.2628 | 155.9772 | 165.12 | top 62% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.5488 | 159.9428 | 160.15 | top 96% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.3944 | 157.0628 | 158.23 | top 91% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2284 | 165.6684 | 165.95 | top 68% |
“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.
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All American BBQ Throwdown | 2 | 39 | 0 | top 90% | 2026-07-31 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 89% | 91.2% | 91.2% |
| 2025 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 91% | 89.1% | 89.1% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-31 | All American BBQ Throwdown 🏅 Westland, MI | 40 / 45 (656.9368) | 16 (174.2628) | 44 (159.9428) | 43 (157.0628) | 32 (165.6684) |
| 2025-08-01 | All American BBQ Throwdown 🏅 Westland, MI | 39 / 43 (641.5656) | 38 (155.9772) | 40 (159.9656) | 37 (159.3944) | 28 (166.2284) |
| 2025-08-01 | All American BBQ Throwdown (ONE MEAT RIBS) Westland, MI | — | — | 28 (160.5488) | — | — |