#4424 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1474
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headPOLECATCUSTOMSMOKERS
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1474
peak 1474 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2013-06-14
latest 2014-05-02
Best ToY finish
#2707
Master 2013
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 94%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 161.09 · weakest Brisket (125.05)
Road miles
1,007
mi across 3 mapped stops · furthest 504 mi
Master avg
375.90 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs
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.
POLECATCUSTOMSMOKERS 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 147 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.
#4402 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1474
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 11 years after POLECATCUSTOMSMOKERS did, first appearing in 2024.
⚔ Head-to-head#4394 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1475
No shared contest yet.
Level with POLECATCUSTOMSMOKERS on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#4433 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1474
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#4399 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1475
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#4417 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1511
No shared contest yet.
They've been 1511 at their best, 37 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.5484 | 159.9998 | 160.27 | top 61% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.0856 | 161.0856 | 161.09 | top 62% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 145.1200 | 145.1200 | 145.12 | top 97% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 125.0516 | 125.0516 | 125.05 | top 95% |
“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 (13 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0.9 yrs
2013-06-14 → 2014-05-02
Busiest season
2014
2 contests
Contests a season
1.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
KY
2 of 3 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 161.09 · weakest Brisket (125.05)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 3 contests
Master average
375.90
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
64
5–59 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
1,007
3 mapped stops · furthest 504 mi
Power rating
1474
peak 1474 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2013
- First tracked contest Sam's Club National BBQ Tour
- 2014
- Career-best overall score591.8056 Smokelawn
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)161.0856 Smokelawn
- Most recent contest Bourbon City BBQ Festival Cookoff
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)
Season by season
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 87% | 82.2% | 82.2% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 100% | 22.2% | 22.2% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-06-06 | Bourbon City BBQ Festival Cookoff Bardstown, KY | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2014-05-02 | Smokelawn Hot Springs, AR | 34 / 39 (591.8056) | 26 (160.5484) | 24 (161.0856) | 38 (145.1200) | 37 (125.0516) |
| 2013-06-14 | Sam's Club National BBQ Tour Lexington, KY | 27 / 27 (159.9998) | 15 (159.9998) | — | — | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 ↗ | Master | #2707 (52 pts) | #1904 (102 pts) | — | — | — |