SMOKIN ME CRAZY

SMOKIN ME CRAZY is a competition barbecue team with 11 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2014 and 2019. Their best overall finish is 10th of 63 at the Rock N Ribs BBQ Festival (2015). They are ranked #5379 of 6,485 teams in the KCBS power rankings.

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At a glance (the record in numbers)

Power ranking

#5,379

of 6,485 rated · rankings

Rating

1454

peak 1502 · rated over 11 contests

Contests

in the data

First seen

Aug 8, 2014

latest Apr 26, 2019 · 4.7 years on the trail

Best ToY finish

#1667

Master 2016 · every season

Grand champs

0 reserve

Category wins

0 podiums

Overall top-10s

9% of 11 contests

Avg finish

top 74%

overall standings

Best overall

677.7260 / 720

Master · Rock N Ribs BBQ Festival

Perfect 180s

Current form

479.63 ▼

last 5 Master vs avg 551.41 (-71.77)

Walk rate

18%

contests with a top-10 call

Best single call

174.8800

Pork · Rock N Ribs BBQ Festival

Consistency

±167.73

spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)

Strongest meat

Chicken

avg 161.04 · weakest Brisket (157.23)

Road miles

1,546

across 11 mapped stops · furthest 264 mi

Schedule strength

59%

of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1574)

Purse competed for

$20K

listed at 1 contest — purses, not winnings

State championships

0 🏅

won from 1 state-championship entry

Master avg

551.41 / 720

11 Master contests · 0 GCs

Storylines (6 found in their record)

Each card leads with the number behind the story, straight from their results.

High-water mark

677.7260 career-best overall

94.1% of a perfect 720

Their best day on record: 677.7260 at Rock N Ribs BBQ Festival — 94.1% of a perfect 720.

Master
Apr 24, 2015

The one to beat

2× one call ahead of them

Rise N Swine has finished one call ahead of SMOKIN ME CRAZY 2 times — their closest competition in the data.

A tough matchup

8–0 behind in the head-to-head

Three Hog Night Smokers ahead in 100% of their meetings

Three Hog Night Smokers has come out ahead in 8 of their 8 shared contests.

A strong matchup

3–1 ahead in the head-to-head

Ahead in 75% of their meetings

They've finished ahead of SMOKIN DAN in 3 of their 4 shared contests.

Chicken nemesis

7 of 8 shared chicken entries lost

Three Hog Night Smokers ahead 88% of the time

Even in their strongest meat, Three Hog Night Smokers has out-cooked them in 7 of 8 shared chicken entries.

Boom or bust

±23.30% swing around their own average

Their overall swings ±23.30% of a perfect score around its own average — when it lands they're dangerous, and when it doesn't the weekend is gone by lunch.

averages 76.6% of a perfect score
best 94.1%

Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)

Year	Series	Overall	Chicken	Ribs	Pork	Brisket
2018 ↗	Master	#1954 (60 pts)	#2012 (60 pts)	#1996 (60 pts)	#2030 (60 pts)	#1990 (60 pts)
2017 ↗	Master	#2173 (65 pts)	#2178 (75 pts)	#2155 (85 pts)	#2260 (60 pts)	#2230 (65 pts)
2016 ↗	Master	#1667 (141 pts)	#1674 (161 pts)	#1487 (191 pts)	#1868 (121 pts)	#1605 (166 pts)
2015 ↗	Master	#2111 (68 pts)	#2141 (73 pts)	#2159 (68 pts)	#1777 (123 pts)	#2202 (63 pts)

Overall rank by season

Teams like this (closest power rating)

The teams rated closest to SMOKIN ME CRAZY, each with one reason worth a look.

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

Faith Technologies

#5,403 of the rated field

1454 power rating

Contests: 5
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 0%
Peak: 1454

1–1 in 2 shared contests (50% to SMOKIN ME CRAZY)

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

rated over 5 contests
last seen Apr 20, 2018

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Tipsy Pigs

#5,389 of the rated field

1454 power rating

Contests: 11
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 0%
Peak: 1454

This is the highest they've ever been rated, 11 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.

rated over 11 contests
last seen May 31, 2024

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Shell Rock Smokers

#5,393 of the rated field

1454 power rating

Contests: 12
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 0%
Peak: 1454

Careers of much the same size, 12 contests to 11, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.

rated over 12 contests
last seen Sep 25, 2026

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BLIND SWINE BBQ

#5,368 of the rated field

1454 power rating

Contests: 10
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 0%
Peak: 1454

Level with SMOKIN ME CRAZY on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.

rated over 10 contests
last seen Jul 11, 2024

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THE SMOKIN BUDS

#5,405 of the rated field

1454 power rating

Contests: 10
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 0%
Peak: 1501

Their last contest in the data was back in 2016, 3 years before SMOKIN ME CRAZY's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.

rated over 10 contests

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SHOW US YOUR SPITS

#5,390 of the rated field

1454 power rating

Contests: 15
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 0%
Peak: 1454

15 contests and no Grand Championship yet.

rated over 13 contests
last seen Sep 16, 2021

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

Opponent	Meetings	Ahead	Behind	Win rate
Three Hog Night Smokers	8	0	8	0%	⚔ compare
BUTCHER BBQ	7	0	7	0%	⚔ compare
Rise N Swine	6	0	6	0%	⚔ compare
BUFFALO'S BBQ	6	0	6	0%	⚔ compare
BIG BUTTS NEED RUBBIN TOO	5	1	4	20%	⚔ compare
CLARK CREW BBQ	5	0	5	0%	⚔ compare
DIVINE SWINE	5	0	5	0%	⚔ compare
THE AMERICAN DREAM BBQ	5	0	5	0%	⚔ compare

By meat

Category	Entries	Calls	Best	Worst	Average	Avg finish
Chicken	10	1	172.0228	141.6228	161.04	top 65%
Pork Ribs	9	1	172.5600	137.6572	160.28	top 59%
Pork	10	1	174.8800	130.7656	159.75	top 62%
Brisket	9	1	173.2116	141.6920	157.23	top 63%

“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 field size and state

By contest size

Field	Contests	GCs	Avg finish
Medium (20–39)	5	0	top 85%
Large (40+)	6	0	top 66%

By state / province (where the contests were held)

Where	Contests	GCs	Avg finish
OK	8	0	top 76%
MO	3	0	top 71%

Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)

Contest	Visits	Best	GCs	Avg finish	Last visit
Rock N Ribs BBQ Festival	2	10	0	top 57%	Apr 26, 2019

More numbers

Busiest season 2016 3 contests

Contests a season 1.8 across 6 seasons in the data

Most contests held in OK 8 of 11 contests · 2 states in all

Contests visited 10 1 of them more than once

Opponents faced 296 finished ahead 144 times, behind 304

Longest layoff 1 yrs Apr 20, 2018 → Apr 26, 2019

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

20191 milestone

Apr 26 Most recent contest Rock N Ribs BBQ Festival

20181 milestone

Apr 20 10th tracked contest Rock'n N Ribs BBQ Festival

20156 milestones

Apr 24 First call Rock N Ribs BBQ Festival
Apr 24 First overall top-10 Rock N Ribs BBQ Festival
Apr 24 First overall past 90% of a perfect score677.7260 Rock N Ribs BBQ Festival
Apr 24 Career-best overall score677.7260 Rock N Ribs BBQ Festival
Apr 24 Career-best single call (Pork)174.8800 Rock N Ribs BBQ Festival
Apr 24 Peak power rating (1502) Rock N Ribs BBQ Festival

20141 milestone

Aug 8 First tracked contest CASA's Grab Root and Growl BBQ Competition

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

📈 Biggest rating jumps

Swing	Contest	Date
+13	Rock N Ribs BBQ Festival	Apr 24, 2015
+3	Fire Lake BBQ Cook-off Day 1	Mar 23, 2018
+2.6	Roberts Ranch Smokin Red Dirt BBQ	Apr 21, 2017

📉 Toughest weekends

Swing	Contest	Date
-14.1	Rock'n N Ribs BBQ Festival	Apr 20, 2018
-12.5	Rock N Ribs BBQ Festival	Apr 26, 2019
-12.4	CASA's Grab, Root and Growl BBQ	Aug 12, 2016
-11	CASA's Grab Root and Growl BBQ Competition	Aug 8, 2014
-6.9	Hog Wild BBQ & Chrome Fest	Jun 26, 2015

Scores over time (% of a perfect score — tap a meat to add it)

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	Top-10s	Walk rate	Avg finish	Best overall (% of perfect)	Avg overall (% of perfect)
2019	1	0	0%	top 98%	37.8%	37.8%
2018	2	0	0%	top 81%	92.6%	57.2%
2017	2	0	0%	top 72%	91.6%	90.4%
2016	3	0	33%	top 77%	90.5%	82.3%
2015	2	1	50%	top 47%	94.1%	90.2%
2014	1	0	0%	top 92%	82%	82%

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

Date	Event	Overall	Chicken	Ribs	Pork	Brisket
Apr 26, 2019	Rock N Ribs BBQ Festival 🏅 Springfield, MO	39 / 40 (272.3884)	38 (141.6228)	—	39 (130.7656)	—
Apr 20, 2018	Rock'n N Ribs BBQ Festival Springfield, MO	43 / 43 (157.1772)	—	—	33 (157.1772)	—
Mar 23, 2018	Fire Lake BBQ Cook-off Day 1 Shawnee, OK	52 / 84 (666.7084)	33 (170.8228)	48 (166.2400)	52 (165.7028)	57 (163.9428)
Aug 11, 2017	Casa Grab, Root & Growl Woodward, OK	22 / 25 (642.0916)	20 (163.4056)	18 (164.5488)	23 (157.0744)	22 (157.0628)
Apr 21, 2017	Roberts Ranch Smokin Red Dirt BBQ Enid, OK	26 / 47 (659.8052)	29 (161.6340)	16 (168.5372)	13 (172.5484)	32 (157.0856)
Sep 16, 2016	Cherokee Strip BBQ Cook-Off Ponca City, OK	28 / 43 (651.8396)	20 (168.5484)	13 (168.5484)	26 (161.6800)	34 (153.0628)
Aug 12, 2016	CASA's Grab, Root and Growl BBQ Woodward, OK	29 / 29 (491.3944)	6 (172.0228)	23 (155.3944)	—	13 (163.9772)
Jun 17, 2016	Smoke on the water-Annual Carlton Landing BBQ Competition Carlton Landing, OK	20 / 31 (634.0800)	21 (163.3712)	22 (154.8000)	24 (153.6572)	15 (162.2516)
Jun 26, 2015	Hog Wild BBQ & Chrome Fest Chandler, OK	22 / 28 (621.5660)	21 (157.1084)	22 (154.2400)	11 (168.5256)	23 (141.6920)
Apr 24, 2015	Rock N Ribs BBQ Festival Springfield, MO	10 / 63 (677.7260)	49 (157.0744)	8 (172.5600)	4 (174.8800)	5 (173.2116)
Aug 8, 2014	CASA's Grab Root and Growl BBQ Competition Woodward, OK	24 / 26 (590.7084)	22 (154.8344)	26 (137.6572)	22 (155.4512)	22 (142.7656)

SMOKIN ME CRAZY

At a glance (the record in numbers)

Power ranking

Rating

Contests

First seen

Best ToY finish

Grand champs

Category wins

Overall top-10s

Avg finish

Best overall

Perfect 180s

Current form

Walk rate

Best single call

Consistency

Strongest meat

Road miles

Schedule strength

Purse competed for

State championships

Master avg

Storylines (6 found in their record)

High-water mark

The one to beat

A tough matchup

A strong matchup

Chicken nemesis

Boom or bust

Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)

Overall rank by season

Teams like this (closest power rating)

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

By meat

By field size and state

By contest size

By state / province (where the contests were held)

Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)

More numbers

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

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

📈 Biggest rating jumps

📉 Toughest weekends

Scores over time (% of a perfect score — tap a meat to add it)

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

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

Career map (orange GC · green top-10 · grey the rest — tap a pin)