High-water mark
685.1428
career-best overall
95.2% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 685.1428 at Bixby BBQ & Blues Festival — 95.2% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2013-05-03
THROWIN' SMOKE
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1504
peak 1514 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2013-05-03
latest 2016-05-27
Best ToY finish
#1308
Master 2013
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 50%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 168.85 · weakest Brisket (155.66)
Road miles
796
mi across 2 mapped stops · furthest 796 mi
Master avg
654.46 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs
Storylines (1 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.
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.
THROWIN' SMOKE 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 115 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.
#3071 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1521
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3055 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1522
No shared contest yet.
Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2013.
⚔ Head-to-head#3064 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
Level with THROWIN' SMOKE on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3042 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1511
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3046 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3057 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where THROWIN' SMOKE's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 177.1428 | 153.0628 | 165.10 | top 52% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 173.1430 | 164.5488 | 168.85 | top 32% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.5714 | 161.1200 | 164.85 | top 46% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2856 | 145.0400 | 155.66 | top 64% |
“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.
The story so far (14 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
3.1 yrs
2013-05-03 → 2016-05-27
Busiest season
2016
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
GA
1 of 2 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 168.85 · weakest Brisket (155.66)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 1 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
50%
1 of 2 contests
Master average
654.46
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
149
83–66 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
796
2 mapped stops · furthest 796 mi
Longest layoff
3.1 yrs
2013-05-03 → 2016-05-27
Power rating
1504
peak 1514 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2013
- First tracked contest Bixby BBQ & Blues Festival
- First call Bixby BBQ & Blues Festival
- First overall top-10 Bixby BBQ & Blues Festival
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score685.1428 Bixby BBQ & Blues Festival
- Career-best overall score685.1428 Bixby BBQ & Blues Festival
- Career-best single call (Chicken)177.1428 Bixby BBQ & Blues Festival
- 2016
- Most recent contest Papa Joe's Banjo-B-Que & Music Festival (GBC Qualifier)
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 | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 94% | 86.6% | 86.6% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 7% | 95.2% | 95.2% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-05-27 | Papa Joe's Banjo-B-Que & Music Festival (GBC Qualifier) Evans, GA | 62 / 66 (623.7716) | 64 (153.0628) | 37 (164.5488) | 45 (161.1200) | 62 (145.0400) |
| 2013-05-03 | Bixby BBQ & Blues Festival Bixby, OK | 6 / 88 (685.1428) | 6 (177.1428) | 7 (173.1430) | 21 (168.5714) | 30 (166.2856) |
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 | #2274 (60 pts) | #2353 (60 pts) | #2349 (60 pts) | #2326 (60 pts) | #2345 (60 pts) |
| 2013 ↗ | Master | #1308 (190 pts) | #1378 (190 pts) | #1437 (180 pts) | #1974 (95 pts) | #2034 (75 pts) |