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.
Ooh That Smell 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 136 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.
2 contests in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Ooh That Smell has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Ooh That Smell on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2013, 10 years before Ooh That Smell's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2019, 5 years before Ooh That Smell'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 | 168.5944 | 165.6800 | 167.14 | top 64% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.6800 | 156.5140 | 159.10 | top 92% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.5256 | 156.5256 | 158.53 | top 90% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.8000 | 155.4056 | 157.10 | 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.
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hayden West's Delta Smoke BBQ Contest | 2 | 22 | 0 | top 88% | 2024-06-07 |
| 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 91% | 88.8% | 88.8% |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 85% | 89.5% | 89.5% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-06-07 | Hayden West's Delta Smoke BBQ Contest 🏅 Wynne, AR | 30 / 33 (639.2912) | 26 (165.6800) | 28 (161.6800) | 30 (156.5256) | 30 (155.4056) |
| 2023-06-09 | Hayden West's Delta Smoke BBQ Contest 🏅 Wynne, AR | 22 / 26 (644.4340) | 13 (168.5944) | 26 (156.5140) | 23 (160.5256) | 22 (158.8000) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 ↗ | Master | #1480 (58 pts) | #1512 (58 pts) | #1571 (58 pts) | #1491 (58 pts) | #1480 (58 pts) |
| 2023 ↗ | Master | #1229 (66 pts) | #1123 (111 pts) | #1738 (51 pts) | #1282 (61 pts) | #1271 (66 pts) |