A tough matchup
3–0
behind in the head-to-head
Heavy Smoke BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings
Heavy Smoke BBQ has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
NO BULL BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1479
peak 1479 · rated over 4 contests ⓘ
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
2019-10-04
latest 2022-01-07
Best ToY finish
#1309
Master 2022
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 73%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
570.75
last 3 Master vs avg 570.75 (+0.00)
Walk rate
25%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±78.13
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 157.27 · weakest Chicken (153.39)
Road miles
3,306
mi across 4 mapped stops · furthest 1106 mi
Schedule strength
68%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1586)
Purse competed for
$40K
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 4 state-championship entries
Master avg
570.75 / 720
3 Master contests · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
617.62 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 0 GCs
Master and Backyard overall scores sit on different scales (Master is out of 720, Backyard out of 360), so they're kept separate — averaging them together would be misleading.
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
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 long haul
3,306
road miles between contests
Contest to contest, they've covered roughly 3,306 miles across 4 mapped stops — the longest single trip being 1,106 miles to Fire it up Frostproof!.
- 4 mapped stops
- furthest 1,106 mi
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.
NO BULL BBQ has 4 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 145 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.
#4197 of the rated field
- Contests
- 20
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 10%
- Peak
- 1526
0–1 in 1 shared contest (0% to NO BULL BBQ)
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team NO BULL BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head#4166 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1479
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#4205 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1511
No shared contest yet.
They've been 1511 at their best, 33 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-head#4209 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
Level with NO BULL BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#4169 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1479
No shared contest yet.
Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2019.
⚔ Head-to-head#4186 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1479
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 3 years before NO BULL BBQ'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 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 163.4056 | 142.8000 | 153.39 | top 70% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 160.5256 | 150.8116 | 155.38 | top 68% |
| Pork | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 168.5372 | 145.7140 | 157.27 | top 61% |
| Brisket | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 159.9772 | 143.9772 | 155.27 | top 65% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FL | 2 | 0 | top 61% |
| IA | 2 | 0 | top 86% |
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 2 | 0 | top 61% |
| Large (40+) | 2 | 0 | top 86% |
The story so far (18 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
2.3 yrs
2019-10-04 → 2022-01-07
Busiest season
2020
2 contests
Contests a season
1.3
across 3 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
FL
2 of 4 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
4
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
4 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 157.27 · weakest Chicken (153.39)
Walk rate
25%
a top-10 call in 1 of 4 contests
Overall top-10 rate
25%
1 of 4 contests
Master average
570.75
out of 720 · 3 contests · 0 GCs
Backyard average
617.62
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
151
35–146 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
3,306
4 mapped stops · furthest 1,106 mi
Schedule strength
1586
average field rating faced — tougher than 68% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$40,000
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 4 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
1.3 yrs
2020-10-02 → 2022-01-07
Power rating
1479
peak 1479 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2019
- First tracked contest Smoketoberfest
- Career-best overall score645.0284 Smoketoberfest
- Career-best single call (Pork)168.5372 Smoketoberfest
- Peak power rating (1497) Smoketoberfest
- 2022
- First call Southern Sunshine BBQ Fest
- First overall top-10 Southern Sunshine BBQ Fest
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score617.6224 Southern Sunshine BBQ Fest
- Most recent contest Southern Sunshine BBQ Fest
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +3.1 | Southern Sunshine BBQ Fest | 2022-01-07 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -10.7 | Fire it up Frostproof! | 2020-03-06 |
| -10.4 | Ottumwa Smoketoberfest | 2020-10-02 |
| -3.2 | Smoketoberfest | 2019-10-04 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 31% | 171.6% | 171.6% |
| 2020 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 95% | 84% | 74.1% |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 71% | 89.6% | 89.6% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-01-07 | Southern Sunshine BBQ Fest 🏅 Lake Wales, FL | 9 / 29 (617.6224) | 5 (163.4056) | 10 (150.8116) | 10 (145.7140) | 8 (157.6912) |
| 2020-10-02 | Ottumwa Smoketoberfest 🏅 Ottumwa, IA | 66 / 66 (462.7660) | 65 (145.0860) | — | 58 (157.7028) | 49 (159.9772) |
| 2020-03-06 | Fire it up Frostproof! 🏅 Frostproof, FL | 29 / 32 (604.4456) | 31 (142.8000) | 26 (160.5256) | 26 (157.1428) | 29 (143.9772) |
| 2019-10-04 | Smoketoberfest 🏅 Ottumwa, IA | 35 / 49 (645.0284) | 34 (162.2628) | 43 (154.7884) | 19 (168.5372) | 33 (159.4400) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 ↗ | Master | #1309 (60 pts) | #1341 (60 pts) | #1404 (60 pts) | #1348 (60 pts) | #1333 (60 pts) |
| 2017 ↗ | Master | #1538 (161 pts) | #1404 (206 pts) | #1192 (276 pts) | #1531 (176 pts) | #1533 (176 pts) |