#3573 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1491
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headCHROME & SMOKE BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1491
peak 1491 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2018-09-21
latest 2018-09-21
Best ToY finish
#1954
Master 2018
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 91%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 167.13 · weakest Brisket (155.98)
Road miles
291
mi across 2 mapped stops · furthest 291 mi
Master avg
618.67 / 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.
CHROME & SMOKE BBQ 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 141 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.
#3574 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 6 years after CHROME & SMOKE BBQ did, first appearing in 2024.
⚔ Head-to-head#3559 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
Level with CHROME & SMOKE BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3590 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1491
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3561 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1492
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3581 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1503
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.2628 | 152.4684 | 161.37 | top 61% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 170.8228 | 163.4288 | 167.13 | top 31% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 175.4172 | 146.8000 | 161.11 | top 52% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.9772 | 155.9772 | 155.98 | top 73% |
“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 (14 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0 yrs
2018-09-21 → 2018-09-21
Busiest season
2018
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
NC
1 of 2 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
1
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 167.13 · weakest Brisket (155.98)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 1 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 2 contests
Master average
618.67
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
44
4–40 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
291
2 mapped stops · furthest 291 mi
Longest layoff
3.9 yrs
2014-10-24 → 2018-09-21
Power rating
1491
peak 1491 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2014
- First tracked contest Jack Daniel's World Championship Backyard Contest (BACKYARD)
- First call Jack Daniel's World Championship Backyard Contest (BACKYARD)
- Career-best single call (Pork)175.4172 Jack Daniel's World Championship Backyard Contest (BACKYARD)
- 2018
- Career-best overall score618.6744 Butts and Beans BBQ Challenge
- Most recent contest Butts and Beans BBQ Challenge
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 91% | 85.9% | 85.9% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-09-21 | Butts and Beans BBQ Challenge Newton, NC | 41 / 45 (618.6744) | 41 (152.4684) | 20 (163.4288) | 44 (146.8000) | 33 (155.9772) |
| 2014-10-24 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Backyard Contest (BACKYARD) Lynchburg, TN | — | 13 (170.2628) | 7 (170.8228) | 3 (175.4172) | — |
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 | #1954 (60 pts) | #2012 (60 pts) | #1891 (85 pts) | #2030 (60 pts) | #1990 (60 pts) |