The heartbreaker
0.0232
points from the title
Came within 0.0232 points of the Grand Championship at Hartford Rib Off (2019-06-14).
CHARTER SMOKE
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1504
peak 1504 · rated over 3 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2014-10-10
latest 2019-06-14
Best ToY finish
#1392
Master 2019
Grand champs
0
1 reserve
Category wins
1
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 50%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
1 🔥
Current form
620.54
last 3 Master vs avg 620.54 (+0.00)
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±19.26
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 167.14 · weakest Brisket (144.16)
Road miles
16
mi across 3 mapped stops
Schedule strength
15%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1522)
Purse competed for
$7K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Master avg
620.54 / 720
3 Master contests · 0 GCs
Storylines (3 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.
Perfect scores on the board
1
perfect 180s
1 perfect 180 in the data — every judge at the table handing back a nine, all in chicken.
- Chicken ×1
The comeback
3.7 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 3.7 years, then back at *Hartford Rib Off(COMPETITOR'S SERIES) (2018-06-15).
- last seen 2014-10-10
- back 2018-06-15
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.
CHARTER SMOKE has 3 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 117 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.
#3071 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1521
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#3055 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1522
No shared contest yet.
Level with CHARTER SMOKE on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3064 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2014.
⚔ Head-to-head#3042 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1511
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#3046 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2014, 5 years before CHARTER SMOKE's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3072 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1503
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2013, 6 years before CHARTER SMOKE's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 180.0000 🔥 | 159.9884 | 167.14 | top 29% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 169.1428 | 145.7372 | 153.70 | top 65% |
| Pork | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 164.5944 | 151.4056 | 159.83 | top 49% |
| Brisket | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 150.2744 | 136.5488 | 144.16 | top 71% |
“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) | 2 | 0 | top 71% |
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 7% |
The story so far (18 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
4.7 yrs
2014-10-10 → 2019-06-14
Busiest season
2019
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 3 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
CT
3 of 3 contests
Contests visited
3
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
4 entries · 1 win · 4 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 167.14 · weakest Brisket (144.16)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 3 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
67%
2 of 3 contests
Master average
620.54
out of 720 · 3 contests · 0 GCs
Perfect 180s
1
every judge at the table handing back a nine
Opponents faced
48
32–22 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
16
3 mapped stops
Schedule strength
1522
average field rating faced — tougher than 15% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$7,250
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
3.7 yrs
2014-10-10 → 2018-06-15
Power rating
1504
peak 1504 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2014
- First tracked contest Indigenous Peoples Day BBQ Cook Off
- First call Indigenous Peoples Day BBQ Cook Off
- First overall top-10 Indigenous Peoples Day BBQ Cook Off
- 2019
- First category win (Chicken) Hartford Rib Off
- First overall podium Hartford Rib Off
- First Reserve Championship Hartford Rib Off
- First perfect 180 (Chicken) Hartford Rib Off
- Career-best overall score647.4172 Hartford Rib Off
- Peak power rating (1504) Hartford Rib Off
- Most recent contest Hartford Rib Off
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +13.8 | Hartford Rib Off | 2019-06-14 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -9.7 | *Hartford Rib Off(COMPETITOR'S SERIES) | 2018-06-15 |
| -0.5 | Indigenous Peoples Day BBQ Cook Off | 2014-10-10 |
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 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 100% | top 7% | — | — |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 81% | 83.8% | 83.8% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 60% | 84.9% | 84.9% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-06-14 | Hartford Rib Off 🏅 Hartford, CT | 2 / 27 (331.3940) | 1 (180.0000) | 6 (169.1428) | 7 (164.5944) | 17 (150.2744) |
| 2018-06-15 | *Hartford Rib Off(COMPETITOR'S SERIES) Hartford, CT | 13 / 16 (603.2684) | 7 (159.9884) | 15 (146.2172) | 13 (151.4056) | 11 (145.6572) |
| 2014-10-10 | Indigenous Peoples Day BBQ Cook Off Middletown, CT | 9 / 15 (610.9488) | 6 (165.1772) | 12 (145.7372) | 6 (163.4856) | 12 (136.5488) |
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 | #1392 (137 pts) | #1455 (147 pts) | #1361 (167 pts) | #1409 (157 pts) | #1797 (92 pts) |