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 Badgers 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 113 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 2017, 6 years before Smokin Badgers's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2013, 9 years before Smokin Badgers's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Smokin Badgers on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head10 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Smokin Badgers's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head3 straight overall top-10s says this rating is a moving target.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 161.1200 | 161.0856 | 161.10 | top 90% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 169.6800 | 147.3600 | 158.52 | top 89% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 159.4172 | 155.3712 | 157.39 | top 95% |
| Brisket | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 153.0744 | 149.0972 | 151.09 | top 100% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Railyard BBQ Brawl 2023 | 2 | 10 | 0 | top 100% | 2023-10-27 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 100% | 88.8% | 88.8% |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 100% | 85.7% | 85.7% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-10-27 | Railyard BBQ Brawl 2023 🏅 Madison, AL | 14 / 14 (639.2112) | 14 (161.0856) | 11 (169.6800) | 14 (155.3712) | 14 (153.0744) |
| 2022-10-28 | Railyard BBQ Brawl 🏅 Madison, AL | 10 / 10 (616.9944) | 8 (161.1200) | 10 (147.3600) | 9 (159.4172) | 10 (149.0972) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 ↗ | Master | #1119 (94 pts) | #1186 (94 pts) | #1237 (109 pts) | #1164 (94 pts) | #1170 (94 pts) |
| 2022 ↗ | Master | #1109 (110 pts) | #1017 (130 pts) | #1207 (110 pts) | #1046 (120 pts) | #1139 (110 pts) |