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.
PONCHO, CISCO, THE KID AND COMPANY 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 145 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.
5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where PONCHO, CISCO, THE KID AND COMPANY's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with PONCHO, CISCO, THE KID AND COMPANY 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 PONCHO, CISCO, THE KID AND COMPANY's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2015, 10 years before PONCHO, CISCO, THE KID AND COMPANY's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2020, 5 years before PONCHO, CISCO, THE KID AND COMPANY's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2018, 7 years before PONCHO, CISCO, THE KID AND COMPANY'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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 177.7144 | 177.7144 | 177.71 | top 13% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.3944 | 167.3944 | 167.39 | top 83% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.1200 | 169.1200 | 169.12 | top 70% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 143.8856 | 143.8856 | 143.89 | top 98% |
“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 | 100% | top 93% | 91.4% | 91.4% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-04-25 | Smokin' in the Creek BBQ Contest 🏅 Sugar Creek, MO | 37 / 40 (658.1144) | 5 (177.7144) | 33 (167.3944) | 28 (169.1200) | 39 (143.8856) |