#3712 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headTEAM APPLE SMOKE
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1489
peak 1489 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2017-06-16
latest 2017-06-16
Best ToY finish
#2831
Master 2017
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 92%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
33%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 169.13 · weakest Brisket (141.05)
Road miles
182
mi across 3 mapped stops · furthest 61 mi
Master avg
645.57 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
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.
TEAM APPLE SMOKE has 1 rated contest — 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 148 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.
#3730 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 8 years after TEAM APPLE SMOKE did, first appearing in 2025.
⚔ Head-to-head#3740 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
Level with TEAM APPLE SMOKE on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3726 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1489
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 6 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#3733 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1511
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#3720 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.8344 | 166.8344 | 166.83 | top 54% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 169.1316 | 169.1316 | 169.13 | top 35% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.5484 | 168.5484 | 168.55 | top 46% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 141.0516 | 141.0516 | 141.05 | top 100% |
“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.
The story so far (13 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0 yrs
2017-06-16 → 2017-06-16
Busiest season
2016
2 contests
Contests a season
1.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
IL
3 of 3 contests
Contests visited
1
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
1 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 169.13 · weakest Brisket (141.05)
Walk rate
33%
a top-10 call in 1 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 3 contests
Master average
645.57
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
25
2–23 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
182
3 mapped stops · furthest 61 mi
Power rating
1489
peak 1489 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2016
- First tracked contest *Hog Capital Challenge - JUDGES FULL
- 2017
- First call *Hog Capital Challenge(JUDGES FULL)
- Career-best overall score645.5660 *Hog Capital Challenge(JUDGES FULL)
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)169.1316 *Hog Capital Challenge(JUDGES FULL)
- Most recent contest *Hog Capital Challenge(JUDGES FULL)
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)
Season by season
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 92% | 89.7% | 89.7% |
| 2016 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-06-16 | *Hog Capital Challenge(JUDGES FULL) Kewanee, IL | 24 / 26 (645.5660) | 14 (166.8344) | 9 (169.1316) | 12 (168.5484) | 26 (141.0516) |
| 2016-06-24 | Heritage Days BBQ Showdown Belvidere, IL | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2016-06-17 | *Hog Capital Challenge - JUDGES FULL Kewanee, IL | — | — | — | — | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 ↗ | Master | #2831 (56 pts) | #2012 (106 pts) | #1730 (136 pts) | #1931 (116 pts) | #2924 (51 pts) |