A tough matchup
3–0
behind in the head-to-head
Clean Smoke BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings
Clean Smoke BBQ has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
SOUTH SWEDEN BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1467
peak 1467 · rated over 4 contests ⓘ
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
2018-06-30
latest 2020-08-15
Best ToY finish
#753
Master 2020
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 81%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
616.22
last 4 Master vs avg 616.22 (+0.00)
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±17.49
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 159.12 · weakest Brisket (146.26)
Road miles
1,505
mi across 4 mapped stops
Schedule strength
12%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1518)
Master avg
616.22 / 720
4 Master contests · 0 GCs
Storylines (1 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.
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.
SOUTH SWEDEN 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.
#4755 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1467
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#4734 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1468
No shared contest yet.
Level with SOUTH SWEDEN BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#4774 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1510
No shared contest yet.
They've been 1510 at their best, 43 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-head#4743 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1468
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#4771 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1467
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 6 contests to 4.
⚔ Head-to-head#4729 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1468
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 6 contests to 4.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 167.3828 | 146.8112 | 154.55 | top 71% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 164.6056 | 148.5372 | 156.29 | top 63% |
| Pork | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 169.7028 | 153.6800 | 159.12 | top 56% |
| Brisket | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 152.5484 | 134.8688 | 146.26 | top 85% |
“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 contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 86% |
| Medium (20–39) | 2 | 0 | top 74% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 90% |
The story so far (14 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
2.1 yrs
2018-06-30 → 2020-08-15
Busiest season
2018
2 contests
Contests a season
1.3
across 3 seasons in the data
Contests visited
4
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
4 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 159.12 · weakest Brisket (146.26)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 2 of 4 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 4 contests
Master average
616.22
out of 720 · 4 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
112
22–114 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
1,505
4 mapped stops
Schedule strength
1518
average field rating faced — tougher than 12% of rated contests
Longest layoff
1.2 yrs
2019-06-15 → 2020-08-15
Power rating
1467
peak 1467 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2018
- First tracked contest BBQ an der Burg 2018
- Peak power rating (1489) BBQ an der Burg 2018
- 2019
- First call BBQ Battle Finland
- 2020
- Career-best overall score638.1368 Slow Joe's Barn Burner
- Career-best single call (Pork)169.7028 Slow Joe's Barn Burner
- Most recent contest Slow Joe's Barn Burner
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -10.9 | BBQ an der Burg 2018 | 2018-06-30 |
| -10.9 | 5th Ruhrpott BBQ 2018 | 2018-09-22 |
| -9.4 | Slow Joe's Barn Burner | 2020-08-15 |
| -1.5 | BBQ Battle Finland | 2019-06-15 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 86% | 88.6% | 88.6% |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 61% | 86.4% | 86.4% |
| 2018 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 89% | 85.4% | 83.6% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-08-15 | Slow Joe's Barn Burner Vedum, | 12 / 14 (638.1368) | 4 (167.3828) | 14 (148.5372) | 7 (169.7028) | 12 (152.5140) |
| 2019-06-15 | BBQ Battle Finland Tampere, 33840 | 14 / 23 (622.2168) | 16 (157.1428) | 10 (158.8456) | 16 (153.6800) | 16 (152.5484) |
| 2018-09-22 | 5th Ruhrpott BBQ 2018 Waltrop, | 66 / 73 (589.6572) | 66 (146.8112) | 53 (153.1544) | 41 (154.8228) | 69 (134.8688) |
| 2018-06-30 | BBQ an der Burg 2018 Geestland, 27574 | 26 / 30 (614.8796) | 29 (146.8684) | 11 (164.6056) | 15 (158.2856) | 27 (145.1200) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 ↗ | Master | #753 (104 pts) | #548 (189 pts) | #825 (94 pts) | #640 (144 pts) | #779 (104 pts) |
| 2019 ↗ | Master | #1702 (103 pts) | #1843 (93 pts) | #1559 (123 pts) | #1831 (93 pts) | #1791 (93 pts) |
| 2018 ↗ | Master | #1954 (60 pts) | #2012 (60 pts) | #1996 (60 pts) | #2030 (60 pts) | #1990 (60 pts) |