High-water mark
680.5716
career-best overall
94.5% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 680.5716 at Brews, Blues & Bar-B-Q Cookoff — 94.5% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2015-05-01
BLOWIN SMOKE IN BASEHOR
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1531
peak 1531 · rated over 3 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2015-05-01
latest 2018-07-13
Best ToY finish
#1517
Master 2015
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 26%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
674.20
last 3 Master vs avg 674.20 (+0.00)
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±5.19
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 173.90 · weakest Chicken (159.77)
Road miles
46
mi across 3 mapped stops
Schedule strength
47%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1561)
Master avg
674.20 / 720
3 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.
The comeback
2.1 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 2.1 years, then back at *Keepers of the Fire BBQ Contest (2018-07-13).
- last seen 2016-06-03
- back 2018-07-13
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.
BLOWIN SMOKE IN BASEHOR has 3 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 73 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.
#2185 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1531
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#2189 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 50%
- Peak
- 1531
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 6 years after BLOWIN SMOKE IN BASEHOR did, first appearing in 2021.
⚔ Head-to-head#2194 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 50%
- Peak
- 1531
No shared contest yet.
Level with BLOWIN SMOKE IN BASEHOR on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2193 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 50%
- Peak
- 1553
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 6 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#2196 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1530
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 6 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#2192 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1531
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2013, 5 years before BLOWIN SMOKE IN BASEHOR'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 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.2400 | 158.2744 | 159.77 | top 80% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 177.1428 | 171.4172 | 173.90 | top 17% |
| Pork | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 173.7028 | 163.9656 | 168.74 | top 40% |
| Brisket | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 175.4400 | 167.9656 | 171.79 | top 15% |
“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 contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 24% |
| Large (40+) | 2 | 0 | top 27% |
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| *Keepers of the Fire BBQ Contest | 2 | 14 | 0 | top 27% | 2018-07-13 |
The story so far (15 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
3.2 yrs
2015-05-01 → 2018-07-13
Busiest season
2018
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 3 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
KS
3 of 3 contests
Contests visited
2
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
3 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 173.90 · weakest Chicken (159.77)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 3 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
33%
1 of 3 contests
Master average
674.20
out of 720 · 3 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
114
100–33 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
46
3 mapped stops
Schedule strength
1561
average field rating faced — tougher than 47% of rated contests
Longest layoff
2.1 yrs
2016-06-03 → 2018-07-13
Power rating
1531
peak 1531 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2015
- First tracked contest Brews, Blues & Bar-B-Q Cookoff
- First call Brews, Blues & Bar-B-Q Cookoff
- First overall top-10 Brews, Blues & Bar-B-Q Cookoff
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score680.5716 Brews, Blues & Bar-B-Q Cookoff
- Career-best overall score680.5716 Brews, Blues & Bar-B-Q Cookoff
- 2016
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)177.1428 Keepers of the Fire BBQ Contest
- 2018
- Peak power rating (1531) *Keepers of the Fire BBQ Contest
- Most recent contest *Keepers of the Fire BBQ Contest
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +10.8 | Keepers of the Fire BBQ Contest | 2016-06-03 |
| +10.5 | Brews, Blues & Bar-B-Q Cookoff | 2015-05-01 |
| +9.3 | *Keepers of the Fire BBQ Contest | 2018-07-13 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 29% | 93.6% | 93.6% |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 25% | 92.8% | 92.8% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 24% | 94.5% | 94.5% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-07-13 | *Keepers of the Fire BBQ Contest Mayetta, KS | 14 / 48 (674.1716) | 33 (162.2400) | 9 (171.4172) | 20 (168.5372) | 7 (171.9772) |
| 2016-06-03 | Keepers of the Fire BBQ Contest Mayetta, KS | 14 / 55 (667.8624) | 47 (158.7884) | 2 (177.1428) | 35 (163.9656) | 10 (167.9656) |
| 2015-05-01 | Brews, Blues & Bar-B-Q Cookoff Lansing, KS | 8 / 33 (680.5716) | 28 (158.2744) | 9 (173.1544) | 5 (173.7028) | 4 (175.4400) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 ↗ | Master | #1965 (115 pts) | #2353 (60 pts) | #1239 (260 pts) | #2326 (60 pts) | #1749 (135 pts) |
| 2015 ↗ | Master | #1517 (153 pts) | #2735 (58 pts) | #1684 (143 pts) | #1501 (183 pts) | #1336 (208 pts) |