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.
Smokin' Butts and Tappin' Ash 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 117 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 Smokin' Butts and Tappin' Ash's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2024.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Smokin' Butts and Tappin' Ash on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2020, 4 years before Smokin' Butts and Tappin' Ash's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2017, 7 years before Smokin' Butts and Tappin' Ash's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2016, 8 years before Smokin' Butts and Tappin' Ash'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 | 159.3828 | 159.3828 | 159.38 | top 89% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 153.6456 | 153.6456 | 153.65 | top 86% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.3944 | 159.3944 | 159.39 | top 71% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2284 | 166.2284 | 166.23 | top 46% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 71% | 88.7% | 88.7% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-09-13 | Smoke on the Ohio 🏅 Mt. Vernon, IN | 20 / 28 (638.6512) | 25 (159.3828) | 24 (153.6456) | 20 (159.3944) | 13 (166.2284) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 ↗ | Master | #1101 (78 pts) | #1570 (53 pts) | #1571 (58 pts) | #1162 (78 pts) | #1002 (113 pts) |