High-water mark
679.9088
career-best overall
94.4% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 679.9088 at Hammond BBQ — 94.4% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- Mar 21, 2014
POP'S BLAZIN SMOKERS
POP'S BLAZIN SMOKERS is a competition barbecue team with 3 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2013 and 2015. Their best overall finish is 11th of 61 at the Hammond BBQ (2014). They finished #1838 in the 2013 Master Series Team of the Year standings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1529
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 3
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
Mar 22, 2013
latest Mar 27, 2015 · 2 years on the trail
Avg finish
top 27%
overall standings
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±7.19
spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 170.45 · weakest Brisket (165.31)
Road miles
1
across 3 mapped stops
Schedule strength
40%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1552)
Master avg
673.46 / 720
3 Master contests · 0 GCs
Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 ↗ | Master | #1838 (100 pts) | #1736 (130 pts) | #2043 (75 pts) | #1231 (225 pts) | #2034 (75 pts) |
By meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 173.1544 | 166.8344 | 169.90 | top 32% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 173.1316 | 161.7142 | 167.79 | top 36% |
| Pork | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 170.8570 | 169.6800 | 170.45 | top 22% |
| Brisket | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.2628 | 161.1426 | 165.31 | top 46% |
“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.
More numbers
Contests a season
1
across 3 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
LA
3 of 3 contests
Contests visited
3
a different one every time
Opponents faced
100
finished ahead 123 times, behind 41
Longest layoff
1 yrs
Mar 21, 2014 → Mar 27, 2015
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20153 milestones
- Career-best single call (Chicken)173.1544 Smokin Blues & BBQ
- Peak power rating (1529) Smokin Blues & BBQ
- Most recent contest Smokin Blues & BBQ
20141 milestone
- Career-best overall score679.9088 Hammond BBQ
20133 milestones
- First tracked contest Hammond Blues and BBQ
- First call Hammond Blues and BBQ
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score663.4278 Hammond Blues and BBQ
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 2015 | Smokin Blues & BBQ Hammond, LA | 13 / 56 (677.0400) | 7 (173.1544) | 17 (168.5256) | 20 (170.8228) | 27 (164.5372) |
| Mar 21, 2014 | Hammond BBQ Hammond, LA | 11 / 61 (679.9088) | 34 (166.8344) | 7 (173.1316) | 13 (169.6800) | 19 (170.2628) |
| Mar 22, 2013 | Hammond Blues and BBQ Hammond, LA | 20 / 50 (663.4278) | 14 (169.7140) | 33 (161.7142) | 4 (170.8570) | 30 (161.1426) |