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
NO BULL BBQ is a competition barbecue team with 4 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2019 and 2022. Their best overall finish is 9th of 29 at the Southern Sunshine BBQ Fest (2022). They finished #1309 in the 2022 Master Series Team of the Year standings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1479
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 4
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
Oct 4, 2019
latest Jan 7, 2022 · 2.3 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
25% of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 73%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
25%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±78.13
spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 157.27 · weakest Chicken (153.39)
Road miles
3,306
across 4 mapped stops · furthest 1,106 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 🏅
won from 4 state-championship entries
Master avg
570.75 / 720
3 Master contests · 0 GCs
Backyard (4-meat) avg
617.62 / 720
1 Backyard (4-meat) contest · 0 GCs
These overall scores sit on different scales (Master out of 720, Backyard (4-meat) out of 720), 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.
Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
By 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 field size and state
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 2 | 0 | top 61% |
| Large (40+) | 2 | 0 | top 86% |
More numbers
Busiest season
2020
2 contests
Contests a season
1.3
across 3 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
FL
2 of 4 contests · 2 states in all
Contests visited
4
a different one every time
Opponents faced
151
finished ahead 35 times, behind 146
Longest layoff
1.3 yrs
Oct 2, 2020 → Jan 7, 2022
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20223 milestones
- First call Southern Sunshine BBQ Fest
- First overall top-10 Southern Sunshine BBQ Fest
- Most recent contest Southern Sunshine BBQ Fest
20194 milestones
- First tracked contest Smoketoberfest
- Career-best overall score645.0284 Smoketoberfest
- Career-best single call (Pork)168.5372 Smoketoberfest
- Peak power rating (1497) Smoketoberfest
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +3.1 | Southern Sunshine BBQ Fest | Jan 7, 2022 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -10.8 | Fire it up Frostproof! | Mar 6, 2020 |
| -10.4 | Ottumwa Smoketoberfest | Oct 2, 2020 |
| -3.1 | Smoketoberfest | Oct 4, 2019 |
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 | 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% | 85.8% | 85.8% |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 7, 2022 | Southern Sunshine BBQ Fest 🏅 Lake Wales, FL | 9 / 29 (617.6224) | 5 (163.4056) | 10 (150.8116) | 10 (145.7140) | 8 (157.6912) |
| Oct 2, 2020 | Ottumwa Smoketoberfest 🏅 Ottumwa, IA | 66 / 66 (462.7660) | 65 (145.0860) | — | 58 (157.7028) | 49 (159.9772) |
| Mar 6, 2020 | Fire it up Frostproof! 🏅 Frostproof, FL | 29 / 32 (604.4456) | 31 (142.8000) | 26 (160.5256) | 26 (157.1428) | 29 (143.9772) |
| Oct 4, 2019 | Smoketoberfest 🏅 Ottumwa, IA | 35 / 49 (645.0284) | 34 (162.2628) | 43 (154.7884) | 19 (168.5372) | 33 (159.4400) |