High-water mark
665.0056
career-best overall
92.4% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 665.0056 at BBQ Knife Clash — 92.4% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2026-05-23
the north brianza bbq smokers
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1475
peak 1475 · rated over 3 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2025-09-20
latest 2026-05-23
Best ToY finish
#609
Master 2026
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
2 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 82%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
640.80
last 3 Master vs avg 640.80 (+0.00)
Walk rate
67%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±20.86
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 163.01 · weakest Brisket (156.90)
Road miles
95
mi across 3 mapped stops · furthest 91 mi
Schedule strength
19%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1526)
Master avg
640.80 / 720
3 Master contests · 0 GCs
Still inside their first twelve months: see what a first season usually looks like.
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.
A tough matchup
3–0
behind in the head-to-head
Art Razza Piave Bbq ahead in 100% of their meetings
Art Razza Piave Bbq has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared 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.
the north brianza bbq smokers 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 149 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.
#4348 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
They've been 1505 at their best, 30 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-head#4350 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1475
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#4386 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1475
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2017, 8 years before the north brianza bbq smokers's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#4379 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1475
No shared contest yet.
Level with the north brianza bbq smokers on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#4387 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 29%
- Peak
- 1475
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2023, 3 years before the north brianza bbq smokers's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#4388 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1475
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2023, 3 years before the north brianza bbq smokers'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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 172.5484 | 148.5256 | 163.01 | top 70% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 170.2628 | 151.3716 | 159.39 | top 66% |
| Pork | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 176.0000 | 147.9428 | 161.49 | top 66% |
| Brisket | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 166.2628 | 150.7772 | 156.90 | top 73% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 80% |
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 88% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 79% |
The story so far (14 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0.7 yrs
2025-09-20 → 2026-05-23
Busiest season
2026
2 contests
Contests a season
1.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
GG
1 of 3 contests
Contests visited
3
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
3 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 163.01 · weakest Brisket (156.90)
Walk rate
67%
a top-10 call in 2 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
33%
1 of 3 contests
Master average
640.80
out of 720 · 3 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
51
14–59 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
95
3 mapped stops · furthest 91 mi
Schedule strength
1526
average field rating faced — tougher than 19% of rated contests
Power rating
1475
peak 1475 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2025
- First tracked contest Fo.G & Smoke 2025
- First call Fo.G & Smoke 2025
- Peak power rating (1489) Fo.G & Smoke 2025
- 2026
- First overall top-10 BBQ Knife Clash
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score665.0056 BBQ Knife Clash
- Career-best overall score665.0056 BBQ Knife Clash
- Career-best single call (Pork)176.0000 BBQ Knife Clash
- Most recent contest BBQ Knife Clash
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -10.6 | Fo.G & Smoke 2025 | 2025-09-20 |
| -7.5 | BBQ Expo Master's Challenge | 2026-04-11 |
| -6.9 | BBQ Knife Clash | 2026-05-23 |
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 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 50% | top 79% | 92.4% | 90.9% |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 88% | 85.3% | 85.3% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-23 | BBQ Knife Clash Romano Di Lombardia, GG | 8 / 10 (665.0056) | 7 (167.9656) | 3 (170.2628) | 3 (176.0000) | 10 (150.7772) |
| 2026-04-11 | BBQ Expo Master's Challenge PARMA, 43126 | 33 / 42 (643.2800) | 19 (172.5484) | 34 (156.5488) | 32 (160.5256) | 33 (153.6572) |
| 2025-09-20 | Fo.G & Smoke 2025 Spilamberto, I-41057 | 21 / 24 (614.1028) | 23 (148.5256) | 21 (151.3716) | 22 (147.9428) | 10 (166.2628) |
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 | #609 (190 pts) | #630 (230 pts) | #594 (270 pts) | #544 (270 pts) | #683 (170 pts) |