High-water mark
690.8228
career-best overall
95.9% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 690.8228 at 40th American Royal World Series of Barbecue- OPEN CONTEST — 95.9% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- Sep 12, 2019
SMOKIN' HOOKS
SMOKIN' HOOKS is a competition barbecue team with 5 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2018 and 2019. Their best overall finish is 20th of 468 at the 40th American Royal World Series of Barbecue- OPEN CONTEST (2019). They finished #1372 in the 2019 Master Series Team of the Year standings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1523
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 22 invitational or side-series contests not counted
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
Sep 14, 2018
latest Sep 12, 2019 · 1 year on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
1
1 podium
Overall top-10s
0
0% of 5 contests
Avg finish
top 41%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
40%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±13.07
spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 173.15 · weakest Chicken (160.96)
Road miles
736
across 5 mapped stops · furthest 736 mi
Purse competed for
$106K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
676.49 / 720
4 Master contests · 0 GCs
Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 ↗ | Master | #1372 (145 pts) | #1593 (120 pts) | #890 (345 pts) | #1578 (120 pts) | #1348 (170 pts) |
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to SMOKIN' HOOKS, each with one reason worth a look.
SMOKIN' HOOKS has 2 rated contests, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 101 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#2,415 of the rated field
- Contests
- 14
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 21%
- Peak
- 1530
2–0 in 2 shared contests (100% to SMOKIN' HOOKS)
2 contests in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team SMOKIN' HOOKS has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head#2,408 of the rated field
- Contests
- 126
- GCs
- 6
- Top-10s
- 37%
- Peak
- 1821
2–2 in 4 shared contests (50% to SMOKIN' HOOKS)
They've been 1821 at their best, 297 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-head#2,417 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1523
Their last contest in the data was back in 2015, 4 years before SMOKIN' HOOKS's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#2,401 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1524
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#2,402 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1524
Their rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 6 contests, alongside a 17% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Compare careers#2,427 of the rated field
- Contests
- 9
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 11%
- Peak
- 1523
Level with SMOKIN' HOOKS on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careersBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2744 | 155.9544 | 160.96 | top 80% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 178.8800 | 163.4288 | 173.15 | top 27% |
| Pork | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 178.2972 | 159.9312 | 171.12 | top 31% |
| Brisket | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 176.5600 | 161.6456 | 171.27 | top 32% |
“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.
Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 39th American Royal World Series of Barbecue (OPEN) | 2 | 139 | 0 | top 62% | Sep 15, 2018 |
More numbers
Busiest season
2019
2 contests
Contests a season
1.7
across 3 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
KS
4 of 5 contests · 2 states in all
Contests visited
3
1 of them more than once
Opponents faced
664
finished ahead 827 times, behind 402
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20194 milestones
- First category win (Pork Ribs) 40th American Royal World Series of Barbecue- OPEN CONTEST
- Career-best overall score690.8228 40th American Royal World Series of Barbecue- OPEN CONTEST
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)178.8800 40th American Royal World Series of Barbecue- OPEN CONTEST
- Most recent contest 40th American Royal World Series of Barbecue- OPEN CONTEST
20182 milestones
- First call 39th American Royal World Series of Barbecue (INVITATIONAL)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score659.3260 39th American Royal World Series of Barbecue (INVITATIONAL)
20171 milestone
- First tracked contest World Barbecue Championship
Scores over time (% of a perfect score — tap a meat to add it)
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 | 0 | 1 | 50% | top 20% | 95.9% | 95.7% |
| 2018 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 62% | 92.8% | 92.2% |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 12, 2019 | 40th American Royal World Series of Barbecue- OPEN CONTEST 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 20 / 468 (690.8228) | 253 (164.5488) | 1 (178.8800) | 29 (175.4056) | 90 (171.9884) |
| Sep 12, 2019 | 40th American Royal World Series of Barbecue- INVITATIONAL CONTEST 🏅 unrated Kansas City, KS | 47 / 135 (687.3832) | 110 (166.2744) | 27 (173.7144) | 58 (170.8344) | 15 (176.5600) |
| Sep 15, 2018 | 39th American Royal World Series of Barbecue (OPEN) Kansas City, KS | 183 / 467 (668.4456) | 391 (157.0744) | 16 (176.5600) | 334 (159.9312) | 31 (174.8800) |
| Sep 14, 2018 | 39th American Royal World Series of Barbecue (INVITATIONAL) unrated Kansas City, KS | 139 / 164 (659.3260) | 163 (155.9544) | 137 (163.4288) | 6 (178.2972) | 150 (161.6456) |
| Nov 8, 2017 | World Barbecue Championship Orange Beach, AL | — | — | — | — | — |
An unrated contest — an invitational, or a Competitor or Kosher Series board — is in the record but doesn’t move the power rating.