Perfect scores on the board
1
perfect 180s
1 perfect 180 in the data — every judge at the table handing back a nine, all in chicken.
- Chicken ×1
Smokey J
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1489
peak 1489 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2025-05-09
latest 2026-05-08
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
1
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 89%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
1 🔥
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 170.83 · weakest Pork (159.65)
Road miles
0
mi across 2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$10K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
656.43 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs
Storylines (2 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.
High-water mark
670.7316
career-best overall
93.2% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 670.7316 at 43rd Annual Kennett Jaycees BBQ Cook Off — 93.2% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2025-05-09
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.
Smokey J 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 151 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.
#3712 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3730 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2025.
⚔ Head-to-head#3698 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1500
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2023, 3 years before Smokey J's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3697 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1489
No shared contest yet.
Level with Smokey J on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3726 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1489
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 5 years before Smokey J's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3733 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1511
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 8 years before Smokey J's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 180.0000 🔥 | 161.6572 | 170.83 | top 48% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2628 | 165.6800 | 165.97 | top 81% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.6572 | 157.6456 | 159.65 | top 96% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.3944 | 156.5600 | 159.98 | top 93% |
“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 (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1 yrs
2025-05-09 → 2026-05-08
Busiest season
2026
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
MO
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 1 win · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 170.83 · weakest Pork (159.65)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 1 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 2 contests
Master average
656.43
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Perfect 180s
1
every judge at the table handing back a nine
Opponents faced
39
6–44 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
0
2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$10,000
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Power rating
1489
peak 1489 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2025
- First tracked contest 43rd Annual Kennett Jaycees BBQ Cook Off
- First call 43rd Annual Kennett Jaycees BBQ Cook Off
- First category win (Chicken) 43rd Annual Kennett Jaycees BBQ Cook Off
- First perfect 180 (Chicken) 43rd Annual Kennett Jaycees BBQ Cook Off
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score670.7316 43rd Annual Kennett Jaycees BBQ Cook Off
- Career-best overall score670.7316 43rd Annual Kennett Jaycees BBQ Cook Off
- 2026
- Most recent contest 44th Annual Kennett Jaycees BBQ Cook Off
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 96% | 89.2% | 89.2% |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 100% | top 81% | 93.2% | 93.2% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-08 | 44th Annual Kennett Jaycees BBQ Cook Off 🏅 Kennett, MO | 24 / 25 (642.1256) | 23 (161.6572) | 23 (166.2628) | 25 (157.6456) | 25 (156.5600) |
| 2025-05-09 | 43rd Annual Kennett Jaycees BBQ Cook Off 🏅 Kennett, MO | 22 / 27 (670.7316) | 1 (180.0000) | 19 (165.6800) | 25 (161.6572) | 23 (163.3944) |