A tough matchup
All About Smokin Q ahead in 100% of their meetings
All About Smokin Q has come out ahead in 5 of their 5 shared contests.
Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
All About Smokin Q ahead in 100% of their meetings
All About Smokin Q has come out ahead in 5 of their 5 shared contests.
Pork Ribs is where the weekend gets away from them — it averages 15.40 points below their chicken, and turns into a call 0% of the time against 0%.
Contest to contest, they've covered roughly 3,482 miles across 5 mapped stops — the longest single trip being 1,179 miles to Rim County BBQ Classic and Testicle Festival.
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.
118 rated teams sit within a point of this rating, so a place on this list means the numbers match — no more than that.
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team BIGGS BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headCareers of much the same size, 6 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 6 years after BIGGS BBQ did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with BIGGS BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headCareers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-headCareers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head| Opponent | Meetings | Ahead | Behind | Win rate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All About Smokin Q | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| LOOT N' BOOTY BBQ | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| Bad Boyz BBQ | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| KNIFE PORK AND SPOON | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171.4628 | 161.1428 | 166.58 | top 56% |
| Pork Ribs | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.7144 | 129.1316 | 151.18 | top 84% |
| Pork | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2628 | 141.1200 | 157.81 | top 77% |
| Brisket | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.2516 | 141.1200 | 151.97 | top 81% |
“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.
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 2 | 0 | top 94% |
| Large (40+) | 3 | 0 | top 84% |
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Slab-O-Rama Barbeque Challenge | 2 | 37 | 0 | top 93% | 2018-01-19 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +0.2 | *City of Show Low's 6th Annual BBQ Throwdown | 2018-05-04 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -11 | Rim County BBQ Classic and Testicle Festival | 2017-09-29 |
| -10.3 | Slab-O-Rama Barbeque Challenge | 2017-01-20 |
| -9.3 | World BBQ Festival | 2016-11-04 |
| -9 | Slab-O-Rama Barbeque Challenge | 2018-01-19 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 80% | 91% | 89% |
| 2017 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 95% | 85.5% | 73.7% |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 90% | 87.4% | 87.4% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-05-04 | *City of Show Low's 6th Annual BBQ Throwdown Show Low, AZ | 34 / 52 (655.4628) | 17 (171.4628) | 33 (165.7144) | 32 (165.1656) | 41 (153.1200) |
| 2018-01-19 | Slab-O-Rama Barbeque Challenge Bullhead City, AZ | 66 / 70 (625.6232) | 39 (166.8572) | 68 (149.1316) | 65 (155.9544) | 64 (153.6800) |
| 2017-09-29 | Rim County BBQ Classic and Testicle Festival Payson, AZ | 35 / 36 (445.0856) | — | 25 (162.8456) | 36 (141.1200) | 32 (141.1200) |
| 2017-01-20 | Slab-O-Rama Barbeque Challenge Bullhead City, AZ | 37 / 40 (615.9200) | 21 (166.8456) | 40 (129.1316) | 23 (166.2628) | 33 (153.6800) |
| 2016-11-04 | World BBQ Festival Peoria, AZ | 28 / 31 (629.0056) | 26 (161.1428) | 28 (149.0856) | 23 (160.5256) | 20 (158.2516) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 ↗ | Master | #1954 (60 pts) | #1819 (100 pts) | #1996 (60 pts) | #2030 (60 pts) | #1990 (60 pts) |
| 2017 ↗ | Master | #2212 (60 pts) | — | #2304 (60 pts) | #2260 (60 pts) | #2266 (60 pts) |