High-water mark
664.4800
career-best overall
92.3% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 664.4800 at Alberta BBQ Festival — 92.3% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2026-07-03
Rollin Smoke Barbecue 2023
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1472
peak 1472 · rated over 4 contests ⓘ
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
2025-07-26
latest 2026-07-03
Best ToY finish
#349
Master 2026
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
1
2 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 78%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
653.01
last 4 Master vs avg 653.01 (+0.00)
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±10.47
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 166.98 · weakest Brisket (154.23)
Road miles
284
mi across 4 mapped stops · furthest 99 mi
Schedule strength
26%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1535)
Master avg
653.01 / 720
4 Master contests · 0 GCs
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.
The one to beat
2×
one call ahead of them
KillerbunnyBBQ has finished one call ahead of Rollin Smoke Barbecue 2023 2 times — their closest competition in the data.
A tough matchup
4–0
behind in the head-to-head
Bottle Hill BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings
Bottle Hill BBQ has come out ahead in 4 of their 4 shared contests.
A strong matchup
3–0
ahead in the head-to-head
Ahead in 100% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of Rack Addicts BBQ Team in 3 of their 3 shared 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.
Rollin Smoke Barbecue 2023 has 4 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 134 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.
#4502 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1472
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#4525 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1472
No shared contest yet.
Level with Rollin Smoke Barbecue 2023 on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#4529 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1472
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#4514 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1472
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#4501 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
They've been 1504 at their best, 32 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-head#4533 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1472
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2019, 6 years before Rollin Smoke Barbecue 2023's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 175.4172 | 155.9200 | 166.11 | top 63% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 176.5600 | 161.6800 | 166.98 | top 56% |
| Pork | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.2628 | 162.8000 | 165.69 | top 74% |
| Brisket | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 161.0972 | 139.3600 | 154.23 | top 80% |
“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 contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 73% |
| Medium (20–39) | 3 | 0 | top 79% |
The story so far (14 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0.9 yrs
2025-07-26 → 2026-07-03
Busiest season
2026
2 contests
Contests a season
2
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
AB
4 of 4 contests
Contests visited
4
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
4 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 166.98 · weakest Brisket (154.23)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 2 of 4 contests
Overall top-10 rate
25%
1 of 4 contests
Master average
653.01
out of 720 · 4 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
53
23–83 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
284
4 mapped stops · furthest 99 mi
Schedule strength
1535
average field rating faced — tougher than 26% of rated contests
Power rating
1472
peak 1472 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2025
- First tracked contest Didsbury Lions BBQ
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score649.5316 Didsbury Lions BBQ
- Peak power rating (1491) Didsbury Lions BBQ
- 2026
- First call Small Town Smoke Down
- First category win (Pork Ribs) Small Town Smoke Down
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)176.5600 Small Town Smoke Down
- First overall top-10 Alberta BBQ Festival
- Career-best overall score664.4800 Alberta BBQ Festival
- Most recent contest Alberta BBQ Festival
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -9.9 | Small Town Smoke Down | 2026-05-30 |
| -9.3 | Didsbury Lions BBQ | 2025-07-26 |
| -5.3 | Barbeque on the Bow Festival | 2025-08-30 |
| -3.4 | Alberta BBQ Festival | 2026-07-03 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 100% | top 80% | 92.3% | 90.4% |
| 2025 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 75% | 91.7% | 91% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-03 | Alberta BBQ Festival Millet, AB | 8 / 11 (664.4800) | 3 (175.4172) | 8 (163.9772) | 11 (163.9884) | 7 (161.0972) |
| 2026-05-30 | Small Town Smoke Down Bassano, AB | 21 / 24 (637.5428) | 24 (155.9200) | 1 (176.5600) | 20 (165.7028) | 24 (139.3600) |
| 2025-08-30 | Barbeque on the Bow Festival Calgary, AB | 25 / 38 (660.4684) | 20 (168.5600) | 24 (165.7028) | 15 (170.2628) | 32 (155.9428) |
| 2025-07-26 | Didsbury Lions BBQ Didsbury, AB | 27 / 32 (649.5316) | 23 (164.5256) | 27 (161.6800) | 23 (162.8000) | 23 (160.5260) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 ↗ | Master | #349 (466 pts) | #304 (586 pts) | #229 (831 pts) | #420 (391 pts) | #393 (426 pts) |
| 2025 ↗ | Master | #930 (117 pts) | #875 (152 pts) | #1013 (122 pts) | #786 (177 pts) | #899 (127 pts) |