SMOKING FINNS FI

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

Power ranking

#888

of 6,413 rated · rankings

Rating

1617

peak 1617 · rated over 20 contests ⓘ

Best runs

straight top-10s · 2 straight GCs

Contests

in the data

First seen

2016-05-14

latest 2026-05-15

Best ToY finish

#409

Master 2021

Grand champs

1 reserve

Category wins

23 podiums

Overall top-10s

of 25 contests

Avg finish

top 38%

overall standings

Best overall

694.3084 / 720

Master · Het BBQKampioenschap Van Het Waasland 2017

Perfect 180s

1 🔥

Current form

671.34 ▲

last 5 Master vs avg 664.66 (+6.68)

Walk rate

68%

contests with a top-10 call

Top-10 streak

best run (overall)

Best single call

180.0000 🔥

Chicken · BBQ Festival Vanamoisa, Estonia

Consistency

±17.34

std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)

Strongest meat

Pork Ribs

avg 166.93 · weakest Pork (164.75)

Road miles

33,472

mi across 25 mapped stops · furthest 5044 mi

Schedule strength

23%

of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1532)

State championships

0 🏅

GCs in 1 state-championship entries

Master avg

664.66 / 720

24 Master contests · 5 GCs

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Storylines (18 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.

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

Against the odds

19-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings

The ratings favoured the top seed the other 81 times in 100

Their Grand Championship at Twin Smoke (2024-05-18) came as the ratings underdog — roughly a 19-in-100 shot against the field's top-rated team, BUNCH OF SWINES.

Giant slayer

31 teams beaten in one weekend

Took the Grand Championship over a 31-team field at Het BBQKampioenschap Van Het Waasland 2017.

2017-09-16

Happy hunting ground

2× Grand Championships here

Twin Smoke is their spot: 2 Grand Championships in 5 visits.

5 visits
best finish 1st
average top 17%

A multi-meat day

1 contests with 2+ category wins

They've won two or more meats on the same day 1 time — the best of them 2 category wins at Het BBQKampioenschap Van Het Waasland 2017 (2017-09-16).

Pork Ribs 1st
Brisket 1st

They almost always walk

68% of contests with a top-10 call

A call in 17 of 25 contests

A top-10 category call in 68% of their 25 contests — they get to the stage more often than not.

High-water mark

694.3084 career-best overall

96.4% of a perfect 720

Their best day on record: 694.3084 at Het BBQKampioenschap Van Het Waasland 2017 — 96.4% of a perfect 720.

Master
2017-09-16

The one to beat

2× one call ahead of them

BM Grils & Smokers has finished one call ahead of SMOKING FINNS FI 2 times — their closest competition in the data.

Their season

2017 2 Grand Championships

2017 was the year it came together: 3 contests, 2 Grand Championships and 2 category wins, at an average finish in the top 6%.

3 contests
3 overall top-10s
2 category wins
average top 6%

A tough matchup

10–2 behind in the head-to-head

BUNCH OF SWINES ahead in 83% of their meetings

BUNCH OF SWINES has come out ahead in 10 of their 12 shared contests.

A strong matchup

7–1 ahead in the head-to-head

Ahead in 88% of their meetings

They've finished ahead of Clean Smoke BBQ in 7 of their 8 shared contests.

The comeback

2 yrs off the trail, then back

Off the trail for 2 years, then back at BBQ Festival 2021 (2021-08-20).

last seen 2019-08-16
back 2021-08-20

Pork Ribs nemesis

10 of 12 shared pork ribs entries lost

BUNCH OF SWINES ahead 83% of the time

Even in their strongest meat, BUNCH OF SWINES has out-cooked them in 10 of 12 shared pork ribs entries.

A big fish in small ponds

Top 22% average finish in small fields

Field size changes the story: they average a top 22% finish in small fields against top 56% in large ones.

Small (<20 teams): top 22% (10)
Large (40+): top 56% (9)

Looking over their shoulder

2× one call behind them

3BBQ has landed one call behind them 2 times.

An August team

Top 28% average finish in August

Something about August: average finish in the top 28% across 7 contests, versus top 38% the rest of the year.

7 August contests
top 38% the rest of the year

The long haul

33,472 road miles between contests

Contest to contest, they've covered roughly 33,472 miles across 25 mapped stops — the longest single trip being 5,044 miles to Twin Smoke.

25 mapped stops
furthest 5,044 mi

The metronome

±2.41% swing around their own average

Their overall lands within ±2.41% of a perfect score of their own average — whatever the field, you know roughly what they'll turn in.

averages 92.3% of a perfect score
25 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.

25 rated teams sit within a point of this rating, so a place on this list means the numbers match — no more than that.

TEAM BREW & QUE

#890 of the rated field

1617 ▼ 0 power rating

Contests: 45
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 22%
Peak: 1617

1–1 in 2 shared contests (50% to SMOKING FINNS FI)

2 contests in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team SMOKING FINNS FI has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.

rated over 45 contests
last seen 2026-07-17

⚔ Head-to-head

SMOKIN' LEFTY'S BBQ

#883 of the rated field

1617 ▲ 0 power rating

Contests: 90
GCs: 2
Top-10s: 30%
Peak: 1695

1–1 in 2 shared contests (50% to SMOKING FINNS FI)

They've been 1695 at their best, 78 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.

rated over 86 contests
last seen 2026-07-17

⚔ Head-to-head

Mind if I Smoke?

#885 of the rated field

1617 ▲ 0 power rating

Contests: 20
GCs: 2
Top-10s: 45%
Peak: 1619

No shared contest yet.

Careers of much the same size, 20 contests to 25, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.

rated over 20 contests
last seen 2026-06-26

⚔ Head-to-head

Q'N CANUCKS

#884 of the rated field

1617 ▲ 0 power rating

Contests: 27
GCs: 1
Top-10s: 56%
Peak: 1635

No shared contest yet.

Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 7 years before SMOKING FINNS FI's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.

rated over 27 contests

⚔ Head-to-head

SMOKIN T'S

#891 of the rated field

1617 ▼ 0 power rating

Contests: 32
GCs: 1
Top-10s: 44%
Peak: 1622

No shared contest yet.

Their rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 32 contests, alongside a 44% overall top-10 rate.

rated over 29 contests
last seen 2018-10-12

⚔ Head-to-head

HalaQyah BBQ

#887 of the rated field

1617 ▲ 0 power rating

Contests: 36
GCs: 1
Top-10s: 42%
Peak: 1617

No shared contest yet.

They turned up 8 years after SMOKING FINNS FI did, first appearing in 2024.

rated over 36 contests
last seen 2026-08-07

⚔ Head-to-head

Familiar foes (most-met opponents in overall standings — one meeting per contest)

Opponent	Meetings	Ahead	Behind	Win rate
BUNCH OF SWINES	12	2	10	17%	⚔ compare
Smoked Pioneers BBQ Team	11	6	5	55%	⚔ compare
SOUTHERN DUTCH BBQ	10	4	6	40%	⚔ compare
Insomnia BBQ Team	9	5	4	56%	⚔ compare
Clean Smoke BBQ	8	7	1	88%	⚔ compare
ROKENDE REGAHS	8	5	3	63%	⚔ compare
BBQ Symphony	8	4	4	50%	⚔ compare
3BBQ	7	5	2	71%	⚔ compare
BM Grils & Smokers	7	3	4	43%	⚔ compare
DE FILOUS	7	3	4	43%	⚔ compare
IQ - NETHERLANDS	6	2	4	33%	⚔ compare
White Squirrel BBQ	6	1	5	17%	⚔ compare
BOHEMIAN BBQ	5	5	0	100%	⚔ compare
WESTHOEK SMOKERS	5	5	0	100%	⚔ compare
BBQ RANGERS BELGIUM	5	4	1	80%	⚔ compare

By meat

Category	Entries	Calls	Wins	Podiums	Best	Worst	Average	Avg finish
Chicken	24	11	1	2	180.0000 🔥	143.4400	166.58	top 44%
Pork Ribs	24	14	3	8	177.7028	150.2628	166.93	top 39%
Pork	24	11	0	5	174.8800	149.7372	164.75	top 50%
Brisket	24	14	4	8	179.4400	151.3828	166.40	top 39%

“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 state / province

Where	Contests	GCs	Avg finish
LT	5	2	top 17%
KS	4	0	top 68%
NL	2	0	top 49%
TN	1	0	top 91%
SE	1	0	top 32%

By contest size

Field	Contests	GCs	Avg finish
Small (<20 teams)	10	4	top 22%
Medium (20–39)	5	1	top 38%
Large (40+)	9	0	top 56%

Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)

Contest	Visits	Best	GCs	Avg finish	Last visit
Twin Smoke	5	1	2	top 17%	2026-05-15
39th American Royal World Series of Barbecue (OPEN)	2	96	0	top 64%	2018-09-15
Brew N Q	2	14	0	top 64%	2018-05-26
Tony Stone Low & Slow BBQ Competition	2	4	0	top 14%	2017-06-03

The story so far (20 numbers that describe this team)

On the trail 10 yrs 2016-05-14 → 2026-05-15

Busiest season 2022 5 contests

Contests a season 2.5 across 10 seasons in the data

Cooks most in LT 5 of 25 contests · 5 states/provinces in all

Contests visited 17 4 of them cooked more than once

Most-entered meat Chicken 24 entries · 1 win · 11 calls

Strongest meat Pork Ribs averages 166.93 · weakest Pork (164.75)

Walk rate 68% a top-10 call in 17 of 25 contests

Overall top-10 rate 56% 14 of 25 contests

Wins it all 20% 5 Grand Championships · 1 reserve

First title 2017-08-18 BBQ Festival 2017

Best top-10 run 5 straight contests

Master average 664.66 out of 720 · 24 contests · 5 GCs

Perfect 180s 1 every judge at the table handing back a nine

Opponents faced 1,099 849–1,127 across every shared overall standing

Road miles 33,472 25 mapped stops · furthest 5,044 mi

Schedule strength 1532 average field rating faced — tougher than 23% of rated contests

State championships 0 from 1 state-championship entries

Longest layoff 2 yrs 2019-08-16 → 2021-08-20

Power rating 1617 peak 1617 · #888 of 6,413 rated

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

2016
May 14 First tracked contest Tony Stone Low & Slow BBQ Competition
May 14 First call Tony Stone Low & Slow BBQ Competition
May 14 First overall past 90% of a perfect score666.8688 Tony Stone Low & Slow BBQ Competition
Aug 6 First overall top-10 Smoke in the North
2017
Aug 18 First overall podium BBQ Festival 2017
Aug 18 First Grand Championship BBQ Festival 2017
Sep 16 First category win (Pork Ribs) Het BBQKampioenschap Van Het Waasland 2017
Sep 16 First multi-meat day Het BBQKampioenschap Van Het Waasland 2017
Sep 16 Biggest field won (31 teams) Het BBQKampioenschap Van Het Waasland 2017
Sep 16 Career-best overall score694.3084 Het BBQKampioenschap Van Het Waasland 2017
2018
Sep 15 10th tracked contest 39th American Royal World Series of Barbecue (OPEN)
2021
Aug 20 First Reserve Championship BBQ Festival 2021
2024
Aug 16 First perfect 180 (Chicken) BBQ Festival Vanamoisa, Estonia
2025
May 17 5th Grand Championship Twin Smoke
2026
May 15 25th tracked contest Twin Smoke
May 15 Peak power rating (1617) Twin Smoke
May 15 Most recent contest Twin Smoke

Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)

📈 Biggest rating jumps

Swing	Contest	Date
+16	Het BBQKampioenschap Van Het Waasland 2017	2017-09-16
+14.9	BBQ Festival 2017	2017-08-18
+14.8	Tony Stone Low & Slow BBQ Competition	2017-06-03
+14	BBQ Festival 2019	2019-08-16
+13.2	Twin Smoke	2024-05-18

📉 Toughest weekends

Swing	Contest	Date
-8.6	4th Annual BBQ Society Cook-off	2016-10-08
-6.1	BBQ Festival Vanamoisa, Estonia	2024-08-16
-5.6	Brew N Q	2018-05-26
-5.1	39th American Royal World Series of Barbecue (OPEN)	2018-09-15
-0.2	American Royal World Series of Barbecue - OPEN CONTEST	2022-09-29

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	1	0	1	1	100%	top 26%	92.9%	92.9%
2025	1	1	1	1	100%	top 9%	95%	95%
2024	3	1	2	1	67%	top 53%	94.9%	92.8%
2023	1	0	1	1	100%	top 40%	91.2%	91.2%
2022	5	0	2	1	40%	top 51%	94.8%	91.3%
2021	2	0	2	0	100%	top 18%	93.7%	92.7%
2019	1	1	1	1	100%	top 6%	94.7%	94.7%
2018	5	0	0	0	40%	top 59%	94.4%	91.1%
2017	3	2	3	2	100%	top 6%	96.4%	94.9%
2016	3	0	1	0	67%	top 44%	92.6%	90.9%

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

Date	Event	Overall	Chicken	Ribs	Pork	Brisket
2026-05-15	Twin Smoke Vilnius, LT	6 / 23 (669.0284)	6 (171.9656)	1 (177.7028)	17 (157.0856)	10 (162.2744)
2025-05-17	Twin Smoke Vilnius, LT	1 / 11 (683.8968)	4 (170.2628)	1 (172.0000)	4 (168.5256)	2 (173.1084)
2024-10-11	Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitational Barbecue (Competitor's Series) (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) unrated Lynchburg, TN	79 / 87 (650.1484)	73 (163.9656)	87 (150.2628)	64 (166.2400)	35 (169.6800)
2024-08-16	BBQ Festival Vanamoisa, Estonia Saue Parish, 76505	10 / 16 (683.4172)	1 (180.0000)	15 (165.7144)	15 (165.1428)	8 (172.5600)
2024-05-18	Twin Smoke Vilnius, LT	1 / 18 (670.2056)	9 (162.2628)	5 (166.8344)	2 (171.4400)	2 (169.6684)
2023-08-18	BBQ Festival Vanamoisa Saue Parish, 76505	6 / 15 (656.4800)	13 (152.5144)	2 (172.5600)	13 (154.2512)	1 (177.1544)
2022-10-01	American Royal World Series of Barbecue - SIDES Kansas City, KS	—	—	—	—	—
2022-09-29	American Royal World Series of Barbecue - INVITATIONAL CONTEST unrated Kansas City, KS	230 / 249 (659.3256)	173 (168.5600)	212 (163.9772)	211 (165.0856)	223 (161.7028)
2022-09-29	American Royal World Series of Barbecue - OPEN CONTEST 🏅 Kansas City, KS	253 / 505 (667.9080)	102 (173.1084)	254 (167.3828)	329 (163.4284)	270 (163.9884)
2022-08-13	BIGFEAST CHALLENGE UUSIKAUPUNKI, 23450	3 / 9 (682.2740)	4 (169.1656)	4 (168.5600)	4 (167.9884)	1 (176.5600)
2022-07-02	Twin Smoke Vilnius, LT	4 / 15 (619.4400)	12 (143.4400)	2 (164.5600)	7 (149.7372)	2 (161.7028)
2021-09-11	Twin Smoke Vilnius, LT	3 / 15 (674.9140)	10 (164.5828)	2 (172.5828)	4 (170.2856)	4 (167.4628)
2021-08-20	BBQ Festival 2021 Saue Parish, 76505	2 / 13 (660.6740)	7 (160.0456)	3 (170.2972)	2 (170.8456)	4 (159.4856)
2019-08-16	BBQ Festival 2019 VanamÃµisa, Saue Parish, 75501	1 / 18 (681.6684)	13 (162.8112)	5 (168.5944)	4 (170.8228)	1 (179.4400)
2018-09-22	5th Ruhrpott BBQ 2018 Waltrop,	27 / 73 (640.5712)	23 (164.5828)	28 (160.5600)	32 (158.8800)	43 (156.5484)
2018-09-15	39th American Royal World Series of Barbecue (OPEN) Kansas City, KS	326 / 467 (645.0740)	297 (163.3828)	259 (165.1084)	322 (160.0228)	348 (156.5600)
2018-09-14	39th American Royal World Series of Barbecue (INVITATIONAL) unrated Kansas City, KS	96 / 164 (679.3368)	13 (177.1428)	80 (169.6684)	148 (162.2284)	87 (170.2972)
2018-05-26	Brew N Q Burton Upon Trent, DE14 1NG	24 / 34 (647.9544)	24 (164.0116)	10 (166.8688)	18 (165.6912)	31 (151.3828)
2018-05-25	Brew N Q (INVITATIONAL) unrated Burton Upon Trent, DE14 1NG	14 / 24 (666.2284)	3 (176.0000)	18 (161.1428)	23 (157.1200)	10 (171.9656)
2017-09-16	Het BBQKampioenschap Van Het Waasland 2017 Sint Niklaas, 9100	1 / 31 (694.3084)	9 (170.3200)	1 (176.0000)	2 (174.8456)	1 (173.1428)
2017-08-18	BBQ Festival 2017 VanamÃµisa, Saue Parish,	1 / 15 (676.6744)	4 (165.1084)	2 (172.0116)	2 (169.2000)	2 (170.3544)
2017-06-03	Tony Stone Low & Slow BBQ Competition Hoofddorp Netherlands, 2314CG	4 / 56 (678.8572)	22 (167.4172)	9 (169.7372)	3 (173.7144)	14 (167.9884)
2016-10-08	4th Annual BBQ Society Cook-off Hoofddorp. Netherlands, NL	36 / 46 (640.0116)	12 (171.4284)	38 (154.8572)	34 (160.5944)	38 (153.1316)
2016-08-06	Smoke in the North Gothenburg, SE	10 / 31 (656.5940)	12 (163.9540)	10 (164.6172)	22 (156.0000)	5 (172.0228)
2016-05-14	Tony Stone Low & Slow BBQ Competition Hoofddorp Netherlands, NL	13 / 65 (666.8688)	9 (172.0000)	24 (164.6060)	4 (174.8800)	45 (155.3828)

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	#660 (163 pts)	#737 (163 pts)	#587 (273 pts)	#906 (88 pts)	#776 (123 pts)
2025 ↗	Master	#604 (261 pts)	#795 (186 pts)	#704 (261 pts)	#758 (186 pts)	#663 (236 pts)
2024 ↗	Master	#486 (384 pts)	#518 (394 pts)	#709 (259 pts)	#571 (334 pts)	#528 (379 pts)
2023 ↗	Master	#842 (155 pts)	#1158 (100 pts)	#788 (240 pts)	#1143 (100 pts)	#651 (265 pts)
2022 ↗	Master	#426 (519 pts)	#533 (409 pts)	#464 (544 pts)	#499 (449 pts)	#384 (619 pts)
2021 ↗	Master	#409 (453 pts)	#645 (258 pts)	#458 (453 pts)	#443 (428 pts)	#506 (378 pts)
2019 ↗	Master	#979 (268 pts)	#1780 (103 pts)	#1356 (168 pts)	#1258 (193 pts)	#1049 (268 pts)
2018 ↗	Master	#1076 (244 pts)	#994 (314 pts)	#1010 (314 pts)	#1075 (274 pts)	#1166 (239 pts)
2017 ↗	Master	#502 (756 pts)	#945 (406 pts)	#603 (666 pts)	#535 (731 pts)	#627 (636 pts)
2016 ↗	Master	#1034 (311 pts)	#932 (391 pts)	#1253 (256 pts)	#1051 (341 pts)	#1099 (301 pts)