HACK 'N SMOKE

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

Rating

1506

peak 1506 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ

Contests

in the data

First seen

2014-07-11

latest 2014-07-11

Best ToY finish

#1854

Master 2014

Grand champs

0 reserve

Category wins

0 podiums

Overall top-10s

of 1 contests

Avg finish

top 41%

overall standings

Best overall

655.4060 / 720

Master · Sam's Club National BBQ Tour

Perfect 180s

Walk rate

100%

contests with a top-10 call

Best single call

169.7372

Pork · Sam's Club National BBQ Tour

Strongest meat

Pork

avg 169.74 · weakest Pork Ribs (157.69)

Master avg

655.41 / 720

1 Master contest · 0 GCs

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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.

HACK 'N SMOKE has 1 rated contest — 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 120 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.

BOONDOGGLE BBQ

#2954 of the rated field

1507 ▲ 0 power rating

Contests: 7
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 0%
Peak: 1513

1–0 in 1 shared contest (100% to HACK 'N SMOKE)

One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team HACK 'N SMOKE has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.

rated over 7 contests
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Twisted Smoke

#2955 of the rated field

1506 ▲ 0 power rating

Contests: 5
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 20%
Peak: 1507

No shared contest yet.

5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where HACK 'N SMOKE's is still finding its level.

rated over 5 contests
last seen 2025-10-25

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Comparrillas

#2967 of the rated field

1506 ▼ 0 power rating

Contests: 5
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 20%
Peak: 1506

No shared contest yet.

They turned up 5 years after HACK 'N SMOKE did, first appearing in 2019.

rated over 5 contests
last seen 2024-04-06

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MOKAN BBQ MOB

#2946 of the rated field

1507 ▲ 0 power rating

Contests: 5
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 20%
Peak: 1511

No shared contest yet.

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

rated over 5 contests
last seen 2023-04-07

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BOSSMAN BAR-B-QUE

#2952 of the rated field

1507 ▲ 0 power rating

Contests: 5
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 0%
Peak: 1507

No shared contest yet.

5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where HACK 'N SMOKE's is still finding its level.

rated over 5 contests
last seen 2022-06-16

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Blue Smoke BBQ of Frisco

#2966 of the rated field

1506 ▼ 0 power rating

Contests: 5
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 0%
Peak: 1506

No shared contest yet.

5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where HACK 'N SMOKE's is still finding its level.

rated over 5 contests
last seen 2018-04-06

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By meat

Category	Entries	Calls	Best	Worst	Average	Avg finish
Chicken	1	0	161.1084	161.1084	161.11	top 62%
Pork Ribs	1	0	157.6916	157.6916	157.69	top 66%
Pork	1	1	169.7372	169.7372	169.74	top 14%
Brisket	1	1	166.8688	166.8688	166.87	top 31%

“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 (11 numbers that describe this team)

On the trail 0 yrs 2014-07-11 → 2014-07-11

Busiest season 2014 1 contest

Cooks most in WI 1 of 1 contests

Contests visited 1 0 of them cooked more than once

Most-entered meat Chicken 1 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls

Strongest meat Pork averages 169.74 · weakest Pork Ribs (157.69)

Walk rate 100% a top-10 call in 1 of 1 contests

Overall top-10 rate 0% 0 of 1 contests

Master average 655.41 out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs

Opponents faced 28 17–11 across every shared overall standing

Power rating 1506 peak 1506 · #null of 6,413 rated

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

2014
Jul 11 First tracked contest Sam's Club National BBQ Tour
Jul 11 First call Sam's Club National BBQ Tour
Jul 11 First overall past 90% of a perfect score655.4060 Sam's Club National BBQ Tour
Jul 11 Career-best overall score655.4060 Sam's Club National BBQ Tour
Jul 11 Career-best single call (Pork)169.7372 Sam's Club National BBQ Tour

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	1	0	0	0	100%	top 41%	91%	91%

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

Date	Event	Overall	Chicken	Ribs	Pork	Brisket
2014-07-11	Sam's Club National BBQ Tour Madison, WI	12 / 29 (655.4060)	18 (161.1084)	19 (157.6916)	4 (169.7372)	9 (166.8688)

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
2014 ↗	Master	#1854 (119 pts)	#2102 (89 pts)	#2127 (84 pts)	#1443 (204 pts)	#1781 (139 pts)