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.
Major Wood BBQ 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 142 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 Major Wood BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Major Wood BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Major Wood BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2014, 6 years before Major Wood BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2019, 5 years before Major Wood BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2018, 6 years before Major Wood 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 149.6912 | 148.5484 | 149.12 | top 95% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 151.4284 | 151.4284 | 151.43 | top 94% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.8456 | 137.6916 | 150.27 | top 88% |
“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.
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 100% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 98% |
| 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 100% | 43.4% | 43.4% |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 98% | 60.8% | 60.8% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-07-26 | Smokin on the Route 🏅 Miami, OK | 27 / 27 (312.5368) | — | 26 (149.6912) | — | 21 (162.8456) |
| 2020-08-07 | 15th Annual HANOR Smokin' Red Dirt BBQ 🏅 Enid, OK | 53 / 54 (437.6684) | — | 51 (148.5484) | 51 (151.4284) | 53 (137.6916) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 ↗ | Master | #1539 (52 pts) | — | #1619 (52 pts) | — | #1158 (72 pts) |