#3297 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1514
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headGRAND SMOKE RAILROAD BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1498
peak 1502 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2019-06-14
latest 2019-08-24
Best ToY finish
#1218
Master 2019
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 50%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 170.28 · weakest Chicken (150.65)
Road miles
167
mi across 2 mapped stops · furthest 167 mi
Purse competed for
$14K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
635.63 / 720
2 Master contests · 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.
GRAND SMOKE RAILROAD BBQ has 2 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 121 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.
#3295 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
Level with GRAND SMOKE RAILROAD BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3261 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1499
No shared contest yet.
Their rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 6 contests, alongside a 17% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-head#3285 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3288 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1509
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3296 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2014, 5 years before GRAND SMOKE RAILROAD BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 156.5600 | 141.7028 | 150.65 | top 68% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 174.8572 | 165.7028 | 170.28 | top 22% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 163.9884 | 149.0628 | 156.53 | top 59% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.2856 | 157.0972 | 159.69 | top 58% |
“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
0.2 yrs
2019-06-14 → 2019-08-24
Busiest season
2019
2 contests
Cooks most in
ME
1 of 2 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
3 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 170.28 · weakest Chicken (150.65)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 1 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
50%
1 of 2 contests
Master average
635.63
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
57
23–38 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
167
2 mapped stops · furthest 167 mi
Purse competed for
$13,750
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Power rating
1498
peak 1502 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2019
- First tracked contest Hartford Rib Off
- First call Hartford Rib Off
- First overall top-10 Hartford Rib Off
- Career-best overall score642.8340 Hartford Rib Off
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)174.8572 Hartford Rib Off
- Most recent contest Kora Kare for Kids Ride-In & BBQ Competition
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 50% | top 50% | 87.3% | 87.3% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-08-24 | Kora Kare for Kids Ride-In & BBQ Competition 🏅 Hiram, ME | 27 / 36 (628.4228) | 25 (156.5600) | 13 (165.7028) | 32 (149.0628) | 26 (157.0972) |
| 2019-06-14 | Hartford Rib Off 🏅 Hartford, CT | 7 / 27 (319.9772) | 12 (153.6800) | 2 (174.8572) | 8 (163.9884) | 12 (162.2856) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 ↗ | Master | #1218 (182 pts) | #1683 (117 pts) | #846 (372 pts) | #1216 (207 pts) | #1314 (177 pts) |