High-water mark
93.3% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 671.8972 at Wild West BBQ Shoot Out — 93.3% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2017-08-25
Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
93.3% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 671.8972 at Wild West BBQ Shoot Out — 93.3% of a perfect 720.
BIG POPPA SMOKERS ahead in 100% of their meetings
BIG POPPA SMOKERS has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
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.
CENTER STREET BBQ 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 125 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.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with CENTER STREET BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 8 years after CENTER STREET BBQ did, first appearing in 2025.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 6 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 176.5600 | 163.3712 | 169.49 | top 40% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 166.2400 | 163.3828 | 164.91 | top 51% |
| Pork | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 167.4172 | 159.4056 | 163.98 | top 62% |
| Brisket | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.4172 | 158.2628 | 161.12 | 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.
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| NV | 2 | 0 | top 74% |
| CO | 1 | 0 | top 46% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 78% |
| Medium (20–39) | 2 | 0 | top 58% |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +5.1 | Colorado Pork & Hops Challenge | 2017-09-08 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -5.3 | *Logandale Fall Festival | 2017-10-20 |
| -2.7 | Wild West BBQ Shoot Out | 2017-08-25 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 65% | 93.3% | 91.6% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-10-20 | *Logandale Fall Festival Logandale, NV | 14 / 18 (651.8740) | 12 (163.3712) | 7 (165.1200) | 10 (165.1200) | 13 (158.2628) |
| 2017-09-08 | Colorado Pork & Hops Challenge Grand Jct, CO | 13 / 28 (654.7312) | 8 (168.5256) | 14 (163.3828) | 21 (159.4056) | 11 (163.4172) |
| 2017-08-25 | Wild West BBQ Shoot Out West Wendover, NV | 26 / 37 (671.8972) | 9 (176.5600) | 24 (166.2400) | 20 (167.4172) | 29 (161.6800) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 ↗ | Master | #1129 (271 pts) | #958 (401 pts) | #1082 (321 pts) | #1188 (276 pts) | #1135 (286 pts) |