Molly s Bbq Smoke House

At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)

Power ranking

#2063

of 6,413 rated · rankings

Rating

1536

peak 1536 · rated over 7 contests ⓘ

Best runs

straight top-10s

Contests

in the data

First seen

2019-05-04

latest 2022-09-09

Best ToY finish

#373

Master 2020

Grand champs

3 reserve

Category wins

6 podiums

Overall top-10s

of 7 contests

Avg finish

top 39%

overall standings

Best overall

678.2628 / 720

Master · The Chidlow BBQ Festival 2019

Perfect 180s

Current form

646.83 ▼

last 5 Master vs avg 651.80 (-4.97)

Walk rate

86%

contests with a top-10 call

Top-10 streak

and counting

Best single call

177.1428

Chicken · CBBF-Chidlow BBQ Festival

Consistency

±12.31

std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)

Strongest meat

Chicken

avg 167.26 · weakest Brisket (159.57)

Road miles

237

mi across 7 mapped stops

Schedule strength

of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1513)

Master avg

651.80 / 720

7 Master contests · 0 GCs

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Storylines (9 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.

Riding a hot streak

4 straight overall top-10s

Currently on a 4-contest overall top-10 run.

career best 4

The heartbreaker

1.7028 points from the title

Came within 1.7028 points of the Grand Championship at The Chidlow BBQ Festival 2019 (2019-09-14).

High-water mark

678.2628 career-best overall

94.2% of a perfect 720

Their best day on record: 678.2628 at The Chidlow BBQ Festival 2019 — 94.2% of a perfect 720.

Master
2019-09-14

A tough matchup

4–0 behind in the head-to-head

Big Boy BBQ Australia ahead in 100% of their meetings

Big Boy BBQ Australia has come out ahead in 4 of their 4 shared contests.

The weak link

−7.7 points behind their best meat

Brisket is where the weekend gets away from them — it averages 7.69 points below their chicken, and turns into a call 71% of the time against 86%.

Brisket avg 159.57
Chicken avg 167.26
5 calls in 7 entries

A strong matchup

3–1 ahead in the head-to-head

Ahead in 75% of their meetings

They've finished ahead of BSA in 3 of their 4 shared contests.

Always the bridesmaid

3 reserve championships

Runner-up for the whole thing 3 times against 0 Grand Championships — close enough to touch it, over and over.

0 Grand Championships
7 contests

Looking over their shoulder

2× one call behind them

GRILLA WARFARE BBQ has landed one call behind them 2 times.

A September team

Top 20% average finish in September

Something about September: average finish in the top 20% across 4 contests, versus top 39% the rest of the year.

4 September contests
top 39% the rest of the year

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.

63 rated teams sit within a point of this rating, so a place on this list means the numbers match — no more than that.

Berg's BBQ

#2067 of the rated field

1536 ▼ 0 power rating

Contests: 7
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 57%
Peak: 1536

No shared contest yet.

Careers of much the same size, 7 contests to 7, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.

rated over 7 contests
last seen 2026-08-15
on a 4-contest top-10 run

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Braddah's BBQ

#2061 of the rated field

1536 ▼ 0 power rating

Contests: 7
GCs: 1
Top-10s: 43%
Peak: 1536

No shared contest yet.

Their rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 7 contests, alongside a 43% overall top-10 rate.

rated over 7 contests
last seen 2025-08-09

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2 WORTHLESS NUTS

#2050 of the rated field

1536 ▲ 0 power rating

Contests: 7
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 43%
Peak: 1536

No shared contest yet.

Their last contest in the data was back in 2014, 8 years before Molly s Bbq Smoke House's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.

rated over 7 contests

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South of the James BBQ

#2045 of the rated field

1536 ▲ 0 power rating

Contests: 8
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 38%
Peak: 1556

No shared contest yet.

They turned up 5 years after Molly s Bbq Smoke House did, first appearing in 2024.

rated over 8 contests
last seen 2024-10-26

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LONESOME DOVE KOOKERS

#2054 of the rated field

1536 ▲ 0 power rating

Contests: 8
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 0%
Peak: 1536

No shared contest yet.

This is the highest they've ever been rated, 8 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.

rated over 8 contests
last seen 2021-01-29

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Double S Smokers

#2048 of the rated field

1536 ▲ 0 power rating

Contests: 10
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 20%
Peak: 1536

No shared contest yet.

Level with Molly s Bbq Smoke House on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.

rated over 6 contests
last seen 2024-10-30

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Familiar foes (most-met opponents in overall standings — one meeting per contest)

Opponent	Meetings	Ahead	Behind	Win rate
Ribs n Pigs BBQ	7	3	4	43%	⚔ compare
THE SMOKIN HOT JAGRD EDGE	6	3	3	50%	⚔ compare
Smokin Steve's BBQ	6	3	3	50%	⚔ compare
Perth BBQ School Varsity	6	2	4	33%	⚔ compare
GRILLA WARFARE BBQ	5	3	2	60%	⚔ compare
Smokin Genius	5	3	2	60%	⚔ compare

By meat

Category	Entries	Calls	Wins	Podiums	Best	Worst	Average	Avg finish
Chicken	7	6	1	2	177.1428	155.3716	167.26	top 33%
Pork Ribs	7	6	0	2	172.0228	155.4400	163.51	top 38%
Pork	7	5	0	0	166.2856	157.6912	161.46	top 46%
Brisket	7	5	0	2	170.2628	145.0516	159.57	top 46%

“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)	5	0	top 31%
Medium (20–39)	2	0	top 59%

The story so far (14 numbers that describe this team)

On the trail 3.4 yrs 2019-05-04 → 2022-09-09

Busiest season 2019 3 contests

Contests a season 1.8 across 4 seasons in the data

Contests visited 7 0 of them cooked more than once

Most-entered meat Chicken 7 entries · 1 win · 6 calls

Strongest meat Chicken averages 167.26 · weakest Brisket (159.57)

Walk rate 86% a top-10 call in 6 of 7 contests

Overall top-10 rate 71% 5 of 7 contests

Best top-10 run 4 straight contests — and still running

Master average 651.80 out of 720 · 7 contests · 0 GCs

Opponents faced 63 74–42 across every shared overall standing

Road miles 237 7 mapped stops

Schedule strength 1513 average field rating faced — tougher than 9% of rated contests

Power rating 1536 peak 1536 · #2063 of 6,413 rated

Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)

2019
May 4 First tracked contest Spit in the Hills
May 4 First call Spit in the Hills
May 4 First overall past 90% of a perfect score650.2056 Spit in the Hills
Sep 14 First overall top-10 The Chidlow BBQ Festival 2019
Sep 14 First overall podium The Chidlow BBQ Festival 2019
Sep 14 First Reserve Championship The Chidlow BBQ Festival 2019
Sep 14 Career-best overall score678.2628 The Chidlow BBQ Festival 2019
2021
Sep 11 First category win (Chicken) CBBF-Chidlow BBQ Festival
Sep 11 Career-best single call (Chicken)177.1428 CBBF-Chidlow BBQ Festival
2022
Sep 9 Peak power rating (1536) Chidlow BBQ Festival
Sep 9 Most recent contest Chidlow BBQ Festival

Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)

📈 Biggest rating jumps

Swing	Contest	Date
+14.5	The Chidlow BBQ Festival 2019	2019-09-14
+14.1	CBBF-Chidlow BBQ Festival	2021-09-11
+13.6	Chidlow BBQ Festival	2022-09-09
+3.2	Zero 2 Hero BBQ Challenge	2020-09-18

📉 Toughest weekends

Swing	Contest	Date
-5.8	Western Australia's Smokin Charity BBQ Governors Cup	2020-02-08
-2.6	Brew N Que-Perth 2019	2019-10-04
-1.1	Spit in the Hills	2019-05-04

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	Top-10s	Category wins	Walk rate	Avg finish	Best overall (% of perfect)	Avg overall (% of perfect)
2022	1	1	0	100%	top 12%	90.3%	90.3%
2021	1	1	1	100%	top 13%	91.2%	91.2%
2020	2	2	0	100%	top 59%	90.2%	89.6%
2019	3	1	0	67%	top 43%	94.2%	91%

Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)

Date	Event	Overall	Chicken	Ribs	Pork	Brisket
2022-09-09	Chidlow BBQ Festival Chidlow, Western, 6556	2 / 17 (650.2172)	8 (163.9772)	5 (161.7028)	5 (162.2628)	2 (162.2744)
2021-09-11	CBBF-Chidlow BBQ Festival Chidlow, Western, 6558	2 / 16 (656.5256)	1 (177.1428)	2 (166.2744)	7 (157.6912)	7 (155.4172)
2020-09-18	Zero 2 Hero BBQ Challenge Bunbury, 6230	5 / 11 (640.4576)	8 (155.3716)	6 (158.8344)	4 (160.5600)	4 (165.6916)
2020-02-08	Western Australia's Smokin Charity BBQ Governors Cup Perth, 6000	8 / 11 (649.2228)	2 (169.7372)	9 (155.4400)	10 (158.3084)	4 (165.7372)
2019-10-04	Brew N Que-Perth 2019 Ascot WA, 6104	18 / 30 (637.7376)	14 (163.4288)	17 (159.4400)	11 (162.2972)	25 (152.5716)
2019-09-14	The Chidlow BBQ Festival 2019 Chidlow, 6558	2 / 17 (678.2628)	4 (170.8572)	4 (170.8572)	5 (166.2856)	2 (170.2628)
2019-05-04	Spit in the Hills Chidlow,Western, 6556	12 / 21 (650.2056)	4 (170.3200)	2 (172.0228)	12 (162.8112)	21 (145.0516)

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
2022 ↗	Master	#704 (242 pts)	#988 (137 pts)	#972 (167 pts)	#912 (167 pts)	#726 (242 pts)
2021 ↗	Master	#638 (241 pts)	#632 (266 pts)	#691 (241 pts)	#880 (146 pts)	#880 (146 pts)
2020 ↗	Master	#373 (292 pts)	#338 (367 pts)	#437 (272 pts)	#387 (297 pts)	#325 (372 pts)
2019 ↗	Master	#710 (443 pts)	#684 (498 pts)	#638 (533 pts)	#795 (403 pts)	#856 (363 pts)