The one to beat
2×
one call ahead of them
SMOKEVILLE has finished one call ahead of KERSEY BROTHERS BBQ 2 times — their closest competition in the data.
KERSEY BROTHERS BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1502
peak 1503 · rated over 4 contests ⓘ
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
2017-04-01
latest 2019-04-06
Best ToY finish
#1565
Master 2017
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 60%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
648.99
last 4 Master vs avg 648.99 (+0.00)
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±11.06
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Brisket
avg 163.68 · weakest Pork Ribs (161.52)
Road miles
36
mi across 4 mapped stops
Schedule strength
68%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1586)
Purse competed for
$5K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Master avg
648.99 / 720
4 Master contests · 0 GCs
Storylines (3 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
4–0
behind in the head-to-head
GETTIN' BASTED ahead in 100% of their meetings
GETTIN' BASTED has come out ahead in 4 of their 4 shared contests.
A strong matchup
3–0
ahead in the head-to-head
Ahead in 100% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of BLOWIN' SMOKE NWA 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.
KERSEY BROTHERS 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 103 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.
#3103 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1505
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#3131 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1511
No shared contest yet.
Level with KERSEY BROTHERS BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3129 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2017.
⚔ Head-to-head#3123 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
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#3118 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
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#3110 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1503
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2016, 3 years before KERSEY BROTHERS 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.0972 | 155.3484 | 161.68 | top 63% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.5600 | 151.3372 | 161.52 | top 58% |
| Pork | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.9544 | 158.8000 | 162.10 | top 68% |
| Brisket | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.3944 | 155.9544 | 163.68 | top 48% |
“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.
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smoke On the Border | 2 | 18 | 0 | top 62% | 2019-04-06 |
The story so far (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
2 yrs
2017-04-01 → 2019-04-06
Busiest season
2017
2 contests
Contests a season
1.3
across 3 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
AR
4 of 4 contests
Contests visited
3
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
4 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Brisket
averages 163.68 · weakest Pork Ribs (161.52)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 4 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 4 contests
Master average
648.99
out of 720 · 4 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
90
56–77 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
36
4 mapped stops
Schedule strength
1586
average field rating faced — tougher than 68% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$5,300
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Power rating
1502
peak 1503 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2017
- First tracked contest *Smoke on the Border Gravette Chambers of Commerce
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score659.2688 Bikes, Blues and BBQ
- Career-best overall score659.2688 Bikes, Blues and BBQ
- 2018
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)168.5600 *Smoke on the Border
- Peak power rating (1503) *Smoke on the Border
- 2019
- Most recent contest Smoke On the Border
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +3.9 | Bikes, Blues and BBQ | 2017-09-22 |
| +2.1 | *Smoke on the Border | 2018-04-07 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -3.2 | *Smoke on the Border Gravette Chambers of Commerce | 2017-04-01 |
| -0.5 | Smoke On the Border | 2019-04-06 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 69% | 87.8% | 87.8% |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 55% | 91.5% | 91.5% |
| 2017 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 57% | 91.6% | 90.6% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-04-06 | Smoke On the Border 🏅 Gravette, AR | 20 / 29 (632.3544) | 24 (155.3484) | 21 (158.2172) | 19 (162.8344) | 21 (155.9544) |
| 2018-04-07 | *Smoke on the Border Gravette, AR | 18 / 33 (658.7544) | 21 (161.6800) | 15 (168.5600) | 20 (163.9544) | 18 (164.5600) |
| 2017-09-22 | Bikes, Blues and BBQ Fayetteville, AR | 18 / 38 (659.2688) | 19 (165.0972) | 11 (167.9772) | 29 (158.8000) | 11 (167.3944) |
| 2017-04-01 | *Smoke on the Border Gravette Chambers of Commerce Gravette, AR | 25 / 37 (645.5656) | 21 (164.5828) | 32 (151.3372) | 26 (162.8228) | 14 (166.8228) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 ↗ | Master | #1799 (93 pts) | #1915 (78 pts) | #1791 (108 pts) | #1915 (83 pts) | #1840 (93 pts) |
| 2017 ↗ | Master | #1565 (155 pts) | #1580 (170 pts) | #1460 (190 pts) | #1799 (120 pts) | #1246 (245 pts) |