DRAWN TO SMOKE

At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)

Power ranking

#3807

of 6,413 rated · rankings

Rating

1487

peak 1487 · rated over 7 contests ⓘ

Contests

in the data

First seen

2013-06-21

latest 2016-08-26

Best ToY finish

#1235

Master 2013

Grand champs

0 reserve

Category wins

1 podiums

Overall top-10s

of 8 contests

Avg finish

top 64%

overall standings

Best overall

654.1372 / 720

Master · 9th Annual Big Island BBQ

Perfect 180s

Current form

646.30

last 5 Master vs avg 646.13 (+0.18)

Walk rate

50%

contests with a top-10 call

Best single call

173.7372

Chicken · Med City BBQ & Musicfest

Consistency

±7.38

std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)

Strongest meat

Chicken

avg 166.27 · weakest Pork Ribs (154.98)

Road miles

1,230

mi across 8 mapped stops · furthest 525 mi

Schedule strength

30%

of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1541)

Master avg

646.13 / 720

7 Master contests · 0 GCs

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Storylines (4 found in this team's record)

Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.

A tough matchup

5–0 behind in the head-to-head

SHIGGIN & GRINNIN ahead in 100% of their meetings

SHIGGIN & GRINNIN has come out ahead in 5 of their 5 shared contests.

The weak link

−11.3 points behind their best meat

Pork Ribs is where the weekend gets away from them — it averages 11.29 points below their chicken, and turns into a call 0% of the time against 29%.

Pork Ribs avg 154.98
Chicken avg 166.27
0 calls in 7 entries

A strong matchup

3–1 ahead in the head-to-head

Ahead in 75% of their meetings

They've finished ahead of F n G BBQ in 3 of their 4 shared contests.

The metronome

±1.03% swing around their own average

Their overall lands within ±1.03% of a perfect score of their own average — whatever the field, you know roughly what they'll turn in.

averages 89.7% of a perfect score
8 contests

Teams like this (closest power rating)

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.

143 rated teams sit within a point of this rating, so a place on this list means the numbers match — no more than that.

Soul Pig BBQ

#3800 of the rated field

1487 ▲ 0 power rating

Contests: 7
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 0%
Peak: 1487

No shared contest yet.

Careers of much the same size, 7 contests to 8, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.

rated over 7 contests
last seen 2026-08-21

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SWATTY CREW BBQ

#3802 of the rated field

1487 ▲ 0 power rating

Contests: 7
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 14%
Peak: 1487

No shared contest yet.

Level with DRAWN TO SMOKE on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.

rated over 7 contests
last seen 2022-04-15

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MR TONY'S BBQ

#3797 of the rated field

1487 ▲ 0 power rating

Contests: 7
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 14%
Peak: 1487

No shared contest yet.

Careers of much the same size, 7 contests to 8, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.

rated over 7 contests
last seen 2017-07-14

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SIMPLY SWINE BBQ

#3798 of the rated field

1487 ▲ 0 power rating

Contests: 7
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 0%
Peak: 1506

No shared contest yet.

Careers of much the same size, 7 contests to 8, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.

rated over 7 contests
last seen 2016-09-29

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Risk it for the Brisket

#3801 of the rated field

1487 ▲ 0 power rating

Contests: 8
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 0%
Peak: 1487

No shared contest yet.

This is the highest they've ever been rated, 8 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.

rated over 8 contests
last seen 2026-07-18

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PayHeed BBQ

#3790 of the rated field

1487 ▲ 0 power rating

Contests: 8
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 0%
Peak: 1487

No shared contest yet.

They turned up 9 years after DRAWN TO SMOKE did, first appearing in 2022.

rated over 8 contests
last seen 2025-11-05

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Familiar foes (most-met opponents in overall standings — one meeting per contest)

Opponent	Meetings	Ahead	Behind	Win rate
GRUMPY OLD MEN BBQ	6	1	5	17%	⚔ compare
SHIGGIN & GRINNIN	5	0	5	0%	⚔ compare
DRY 2 DA BONE	5	0	5	0%	⚔ compare

By meat

Category	Entries	Calls	Podiums	Best	Worst	Average	Avg finish
Chicken	7	2	0	173.7372	155.3600	166.27	top 48%
Pork Ribs	7	0	0	165.1200	143.3372	154.98	top 76%
Pork	7	2	1	173.7028	160.0000	166.03	top 45%
Brisket	7	2	0	169.1428	149.0744	158.85	top 60%

“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.

By state / province

Where	Contests	GCs	Avg finish
MN	6	0	top 65%
SD	1	0	top 59%

By contest size

Field	Contests	GCs	Avg finish
Small (<20 teams)	2	0	top 69%
Large (40+)	5	0	top 62%

The story so far (15 numbers that describe this team)

On the trail 3.2 yrs 2013-06-21 → 2016-08-26

Busiest season 2016 3 contests

Contests a season 2 across 4 seasons in the data

Cooks most in MN 7 of 8 contests · 2 states/provinces in all

Contests visited 7 0 of them cooked more than once

Most-entered meat Chicken 7 entries · 0 wins · 2 calls

Strongest meat Chicken averages 166.27 · weakest Pork Ribs (154.98)

Walk rate 50% a top-10 call in 4 of 8 contests

Overall top-10 rate 13% 1 of 8 contests

Master average 646.13 out of 720 · 7 contests · 0 GCs

Opponents faced 174 109–170 across every shared overall standing

Road miles 1,230 8 mapped stops · furthest 525 mi

Schedule strength 1541 average field rating faced — tougher than 30% of rated contests

Longest layoff 1 yrs 2014-08-22 → 2015-08-28

Power rating 1487 peak 1487 · #3807 of 6,413 rated

Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)

2013
Jun 21 First tracked contest Smoking Knights BBQ Competition
Jun 21 First call Smoking Knights BBQ Competition
Jun 21 Peak power rating (1492) Smoking Knights BBQ Competition
Sep 20 First overall top-10 Taste of Autumn BBQ Cook-off
2014
Aug 8 Career-best single call (Chicken)173.7372 Med City BBQ & Musicfest
Aug 22 First overall past 90% of a perfect score650.2744 Big Island BBQ
2016
Aug 26 Career-best overall score654.1372 9th Annual Big Island BBQ
Aug 26 Most recent contest 9th Annual Big Island BBQ

Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)

📈 Biggest rating jumps

Swing	Contest	Date
+3.9	8th Annual Big Island BBQ	2015-08-28
+1.2	Smokin in Steele	2016-06-03

📉 Toughest weekends

Swing	Contest	Date
-8.3	Smoking Knights BBQ Competition	2013-06-21
-8	Med City BBQ & Musicfest	2014-08-08
-1.9	Big Island BBQ	2014-08-22
-0.1	Taste of Autumn BBQ Cook-off	2013-09-20
-0.1	9th Annual Big Island BBQ	2016-08-26

Category scores over time

Overall finish over time (top-% of field, lower is better)

Where they finish (overall)

Best vs average (by meat)

How entries end (by meat)

Team of the Year rank by season

Season by season

Season	Contests	Top-10s	Walk rate	Avg finish	Best overall (% of perfect)	Avg overall (% of perfect)
2016	3	0	33%	top 59%	90.9%	90.4%
2015	1	0	0%	top 47%	90.2%	90.2%
2014	2	0	50%	top 72%	90.3%	88.9%
2013	2	1	100%	top 69%	90%	89.7%

Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)

Date	Event	Overall	Chicken	Ribs	Pork	Brisket
2016-08-26	9th Annual Big Island BBQ Albert Lea, MN	29 / 48 (654.1372)	29 (167.4288)	24 (164.5256)	26 (166.2400)	33 (155.9428)
2016-06-17	Treasure Island BBQ/ Steak Food Fest Red Wing, MN	—	—	—	—	—
2016-06-03	Smokin in Steele Owatonna, MN	30 / 53 (647.8744)	40 (159.3944)	47 (151.9316)	5 (173.1428)	26 (163.4056)
2015-08-28	8th Annual Big Island BBQ Albert Lea, MN	26 / 55 (649.6688)	19 (166.8572)	41 (157.6916)	29 (162.2400)	30 (162.8800)
2014-08-22	Big Island BBQ Albert Lea, MN	35 / 54 (650.2744)	17 (171.4172)	29 (165.1200)	34 (163.4400)	47 (150.2972)
2014-08-08	Med City BBQ & Musicfest Rochester, MN	32 / 40 (629.5660)	6 (173.7372)	37 (143.3372)	20 (163.4172)	35 (149.0744)
2013-09-20	Taste of Autumn BBQ Cook-off Spearfish, SD	10 / 17 (647.9316)	15 (155.3600)	12 (157.6916)	3 (173.7028)	9 (161.1772)
2013-06-21	Smoking Knights BBQ Competition Hutchinson, MN	15 / 19 (643.4288)	6 (169.7144)	19 (144.5716)	13 (160.0000)	4 (169.1428)

Career map (orange GC · green top-10 · grey the rest — tap a pin)

Team of the Year standings (rank per category by season — year links to the full board on kcbs.us)

Year	Series	Overall	Chicken	Ribs	Pork	Brisket
2016 ↗	Master	#1775 (120 pts)	#1883 (120 pts)	#1854 (125 pts)	#1305 (245 pts)	#1839 (120 pts)
2015 ↗	Master	#2158 (60 pts)	#2046 (90 pts)	#2209 (60 pts)	#2225 (60 pts)	#2214 (60 pts)
2014 ↗	Master	#1716 (140 pts)	#1119 (295 pts)	#1768 (140 pts)	#1609 (165 pts)	#1770 (140 pts)
2013 ↗	Master	#1235 (211 pts)	#1154 (251 pts)	#1434 (181 pts)	#984 (321 pts)	#953 (321 pts)