WYO SMOKE SHOW

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

Power ranking

#756

of 6,413 rated · rankings

Rating

1632

peak 1632 · rated over 31 contests ⓘ

Best runs

straight top-10s

Contests

in the data

First seen

2018-09-14

latest 2026-08-14

Best ToY finish

#216

Master 2026

Grand champs

0 reserve

Category wins

12 podiums

Overall top-10s

of 32 contests

Avg finish

top 42%

overall standings

Best overall

706.8228 / 720

Master · Pepsi Wyoming State BBQ Championships and Bluegrass Festival

Perfect 180s

2 🔥

Current form

682.65 ▲

last 5 Master vs avg 672.49 (+10.16)

Walk rate

78%

contests with a top-10 call

Top-10 streak

best run (overall)

Best single call

180.0000 🔥

Pork Ribs · Pepsi Wyoming State BBQ Championships and Bluegrass Festival

Consistency

±19.57

std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)

Strongest meat

Chicken

avg 170.75 · weakest Brisket (163.97)

Road miles

6,635

mi across 32 mapped stops · furthest 440 mi

Schedule strength

70%

of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1588)

Purse competed for

$288K

listed at 27 contests — purses, not winnings

State championships

2 🏅

GCs in 29 state-championship entries

Master avg

672.49 / 720

31 Master contests · 2 GCs

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Storylines (12 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

2 perfect 180s

2 perfect 180s in the data — every judge at the table handing back a nine, across 2 different meats.

Pork Ribs ×1
Pork ×1

Against the odds

16-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings

The ratings favoured the top seed the other 84 times in 100

Their Grand Championship at Pepsi Wyoming State BBQ Championships and Bluegrass Festival (2025-08-15) came as the ratings underdog — roughly a 16-in-100 shot against the field's top-rated team, B-S BBQ OUTLAWS.

They almost always walk

78% of contests with a top-10 call

A call in 25 of 32 contests

A top-10 category call in 78% of their 32 contests — they get to the stage more often than not.

High-water mark

706.8228 career-best overall

98.2% of a perfect 720

Their best day on record: 706.8228 at Pepsi Wyoming State BBQ Championships and Bluegrass Festival — 98.2% of a perfect 720.

Master
2025-08-15

State champions

2 state championships won

They've taken 2 state championships from 29 entries at contests carrying the title.

29 state-championship entries

The one to beat

3× one call ahead of them

SMOKIN' BOXERS BBQ has finished one call ahead of WYO SMOKE SHOW 3 times — their closest competition in the data.

A tough matchup

10–3 behind in the head-to-head

B-S BBQ OUTLAWS ahead in 77% of their meetings

B-S BBQ OUTLAWS has come out ahead in 10 of their 13 shared contests.

The weak link

−6.8 points behind their best meat

Brisket is where the weekend gets away from them — it averages 6.77 points below their chicken, and turns into a call 29% of the time against 48%.

Brisket avg 163.97
Chicken avg 170.75
9 calls in 31 entries

A strong matchup

14–6 ahead in the head-to-head

Ahead in 70% of their meetings

They've finished ahead of PAPA'S PIT CREW in 14 of their 20 shared contests.

Looking over their shoulder

3× one call behind them

Brinkerhoff BBQ has landed one call behind them 3 times.

A June team

Top 29% average finish in June

Something about June: average finish in the top 29% across 4 contests, versus top 42% the rest of the year.

4 June contests
top 42% the rest of the year

The long haul

6,635 road miles between contests

Contest to contest, they've covered roughly 6,635 miles across 32 mapped stops — the longest single trip being 440 miles to Original SD BBQ Championships.

32 mapped stops
furthest 440 mi

In the record book (1 in the KCBS record book)

Where this team stands in the all-time KCBS record book. A gold line is a record they hold outright; the rest are boards they are on. Rebuilt nightly, so beating one shows up here the next morning.

#10 🪒 Closest championship 0.0004 points between champion and reserve · over SMOKIN' BOXERS BBQ · 14 Jun 2024

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.

SMOKIN' BOXERS BBQ

#760 of the rated field

1632 ▼ 0 power rating

Contests: 58
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 34%
Peak: 1634

10–9 in 19 shared contests (53% to WYO SMOKE SHOW)

These two have cooked 19 of the same contests — WYO SMOKE SHOW ahead 10–9 — so there's a record behind this pairing and not just a matching number.

rated over 58 contests
last seen 2026-08-28

⚔ Head-to-head

ONE MAN PITS

#754 of the rated field

1632 ▲ 0 power rating

Contests: 29
GCs: 1
Top-10s: 45%
Peak: 1641

No shared contest yet.

Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 7 years before WYO SMOKE SHOW's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.

rated over 29 contests

⚔ Head-to-head

CHATTAHOOCHEE QUE

#753 of the rated field

1632 ▲ 0 power rating

Contests: 35
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 43%
Peak: 1647

No shared contest yet.

Careers of much the same size, 35 contests to 32, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.

rated over 35 contests
last seen 2019-08-02

⚔ Head-to-head

DAD BOD BARBEQUE

#759 of the rated field

1632 ▼ 0 power rating

Contests: 40
GCs: 2
Top-10s: 57%
Peak: 1655

No shared contest yet.

Their rating is built on 2 Grand Championships in 40 contests, alongside a 57% overall top-10 rate.

rated over 36 contests
last seen 2026-08-07

⚔ Head-to-head

BRISKET BURNERS

#761 of the rated field

1632 ▼ 0 power rating

Contests: 39
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 31%
Peak: 1668

No shared contest yet.

They've been 1668 at their best, 37 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.

rated over 39 contests
last seen 2019-07-26

⚔ Head-to-head

Bleacher Bums BBQ

#758 of the rated field

1632 ▼ 0 power rating

Contests: 43
GCs: 1
Top-10s: 26%
Peak: 1632

No shared contest yet.

Level with WYO SMOKE SHOW on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.

rated over 40 contests
last seen 2026-08-21

⚔ Head-to-head

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

Opponent	Meetings	Ahead	Behind	Win rate
SMOKIN HOT BUTTS BBQ	27	9	18	33%	⚔ compare
AMERICAN HEROES BBQ	21	8	13	38%	⚔ compare
PAPA'S PIT CREW	20	14	6	70%	⚔ compare
ROCKET BOYS PYRO BBQ	20	13	7	65%	⚔ compare
SMOKIN' BOXERS BBQ	19	10	9	53%	⚔ compare
BRACKEN RACKS BBQ	18	13	5	72%	⚔ compare
LaTa-Que	18	12	6	67%	⚔ compare
Lost Weekend Grill	17	14	3	82%	⚔ compare
Backdraft BBQ	15	5	10	33%	⚔ compare
Brinkerhoff BBQ	14	6	8	43%	⚔ compare
Colorado Bulldawg BBQ	14	5	9	36%	⚔ compare
Big Daddy's Backyard BBQ	13	5	8	38%	⚔ compare
PROUD SOULS BARBECUE	13	5	8	38%	⚔ compare
B-S BBQ OUTLAWS	13	3	10	23%	⚔ compare
PARROTHEAD SMOKERS	12	7	5	58%	⚔ compare

By meat

Category	Entries	Calls	Wins	Podiums	Best	Worst	Average	Avg finish
Chicken	31	15	1	4	178.8572	162.8800	170.75	top 38%
Pork Ribs	32	13	2	3	180.0000 🔥	134.9028	168.24	top 42%
Pork	31	16	2	5	180.0000 🔥	153.0744	169.67	top 37%
Brisket	31	9	0	0	174.2744	145.7028	163.97	top 54%

“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 state / province

Where	Contests	GCs	Avg finish
WY	15	1	top 41%
CO	8	0	top 43%
MT	4	1	top 48%
SD	4	0	top 43%

By contest size

Field	Contests	GCs	Avg finish
Small (<20 teams)	1	1	top 6%
Medium (20–39)	25	1	top 44%
Large (40+)	5	0	top 42%

Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)

Contest	Visits	Best	GCs	Avg finish	Last visit
Pepsi Wyoming State BBQ Championships & Bluegrass Festival	3	7	0	top 38%	2026-08-14
Wild West BBQ Cook-Off	3	4	0	top 41%	2026-04-24
Pepsi Wyoming State BBQ Championships and Bluegrass Festival	2	1	1	top 23%	2025-08-15
Montana BBQ Cookoff	2	9	0	top 51%	2026-06-12
Smoke & Soul Fest	2	6	0	top 31%	2023-10-06
Smoke & Soul Fest - Day 2	2	13	0	top 54%	2021-10-02
Smoke & Soul Fest - Day 1	2	19	0	top 60%	2021-10-01
Hill City Wine Brew and BBQ Fest	2	12	0	top 48%	2021-08-27

The story so far (20 numbers that describe this team)

On the trail 7.9 yrs 2018-09-14 → 2026-08-14

Busiest season 2019 7 contests

Contests a season 3.6 across 9 seasons in the data

Cooks most in WY 15 of 32 contests · 4 states/provinces in all

Contests visited 21 8 of them cooked more than once

Most-entered meat Pork Ribs 32 entries · 2 wins · 13 calls

Strongest meat Chicken averages 170.75 · weakest Brisket (163.97)

Walk rate 78% a top-10 call in 25 of 32 contests

Overall top-10 rate 38% 12 of 32 contests

Wins it all 6% 2 Grand Championships · 0 reserve

First title 2024-06-14 Miles City Cowtown Cookoff

Best top-10 run 3 straight contests

Master average 672.49 out of 720 · 31 contests · 2 GCs

Perfect 180s 2 every judge at the table handing back a nine

Opponents faced 330 554–385 across every shared overall standing

Road miles 6,635 32 mapped stops · furthest 440 mi

Schedule strength 1588 average field rating faced — tougher than 70% of rated contests

Purse competed for $287,750 listed at 27 contests — purses, not winnings

State championships 2 from 29 state-championship entries

Power rating 1632 peak 1632 · #756 of 6,413 rated

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

2018
Sep 14 First tracked contest Smoke & Soul Fest
Sep 14 First call Smoke & Soul Fest
2019
Jan 11 First overall past 90% of a perfect score669.6228 National Western BBQ Throwdown
Aug 16 First overall top-10 Pepsi WY State Championship BBQ & Bluegrass Festival
2020
Oct 2 10th tracked contest Smoke & Soul Fest-Day 1
2021
Aug 20 First category win (Pork Ribs) Pepsi Wyoming State BBQ Championships & Bluegrass Festival
2024
Jun 14 First overall podium Miles City Cowtown Cookoff
Jun 14 First Grand Championship Miles City Cowtown Cookoff
Jun 14 First state championship Miles City Cowtown Cookoff
Jun 14 First perfect 180 (Pork) Miles City Cowtown Cookoff
Aug 16 25th tracked contest Pepsi Wyoming State BBQ Championships and Bluegrass Festival
2025
Aug 15 Career-best overall score706.8228 Pepsi Wyoming State BBQ Championships and Bluegrass Festival
2026
Jun 5 Peak power rating (1632) Original SD BBQ Championships
Aug 14 Most recent contest Pepsi Wyoming State BBQ Championships & Bluegrass Festival

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

📈 Biggest rating jumps

Swing	Contest	Date
+15.8	Miles City Cowtown Cookoff	2024-06-14
+14.3	Pepsi Wyoming State BBQ Championships and Bluegrass Festival	2025-08-15
+14	Pepsi WY State Championship BBQ & Bluegrass Festival	2019-08-16
+13.3	Original SD BBQ Championships	2026-06-05
+12.3	Meat Scream BBQ Competition-Day 1	2022-10-21

📉 Toughest weekends

Swing	Contest	Date
-8.9	Smoke & Soul Fest	2018-09-14
-8.7	BBQ In The Badlands	2019-09-27
-7.4	Montana BBQ Cookoff	2026-06-12
-6.4	Smoke & Soul Fest - Day 2	2021-10-02
-4	Smoke & Soul Fest - Day 1	2021-10-01

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	GCs	Top-10s	Category wins	Walk rate	Avg finish	Best overall (% of perfect)	Avg overall (% of perfect)
2026	6	0	4	1	83%	top 29%	96.2%	94.8%
2025	1	1	1	1	100%	top 4%	98.2%	98.2%
2024	4	1	2	1	100%	top 35%	97.9%	95.1%
2023	2	0	1	0	100%	top 34%	95.4%	93.8%
2022	4	0	1	1	100%	top 40%	95.5%	93.8%
2021	4	0	1	1	75%	top 54%	95.2%	93.2%
2020	3	0	0	0	67%	top 46%	94.7%	93.6%
2019	7	0	2	0	43%	top 50%	94.6%	91.5%
2018	1	0	0	0	100%	top 89%	86.3%	86.3%

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

Date	Event	Overall	Chicken	Ribs	Pork	Brisket
2026-08-14	Pepsi Wyoming State BBQ Championships & Bluegrass Festival 🏅 Worland, WY	7 / 29 (690.2284)	21 (168.5256)	9 (175.4056)	2 (176.5944)	15 (169.7028)
2026-07-24	Albany County Fair Smokin' BBQ Cook-Off 🏅 Laramie, WY	9 / 32 (683.9200)	3 (177.7144)	13 (168.5600)	4 (174.8456)	21 (162.8000)
2026-06-12	Montana BBQ Cookoff 🏅 Absarokee, MT	20 / 29 (670.7312)	22 (164.5256)	12 (171.4172)	14 (168.5600)	18 (166.2284)
2026-06-05	Original SD BBQ Championships 🏅 Huron, SD	5 / 48 (692.5144)	13 (173.1084)	22 (170.2744)	9 (174.8572)	10 (174.2744)
2026-06-05	Original SD BBQ Championships (ONE MEAT RIBS) Huron, SD	—	—	8 (172.5600)	—	—
2026-04-24	Wild West BBQ Cook-Off 🏅 Lamar, CO	4 / 27 (675.8740)	1 (174.2628)	6 (169.7028)	18 (164.5372)	10 (167.3712)
2025-08-15	Pepsi Wyoming State BBQ Championships and Bluegrass Festival 🏅 Worland, WY	1 / 27 (706.8228)	3 (178.8572)	1 (180.0000)	7 (174.2628)	8 (173.7028)
2024-08-16	Pepsi Wyoming State BBQ Championships and Bluegrass Festival 🏅 Worland, WY	12 / 29 (684.5028)	16 (167.4056)	9 (174.8572)	8 (175.4172)	17 (166.8228)
2024-06-14	Miles City Cowtown Cookoff 🏅 Miles City, MT	1 / 16 (705.1088)	2 (177.7144)	6 (175.4172)	1 (180.0000)	6 (171.9772)
2024-06-07	Montana BBQ Cookoff 🏅 Absarokee, MT	9 / 28 (682.2400)	6 (174.2856)	2 (176.5716)	10 (169.6800)	15 (161.7028)
2024-05-10	Wild West BBQ Cook-Off 🏅 Lamar, CO	18 / 29 (666.1256)	9 (171.9772)	19 (165.6800)	15 (169.1200)	24 (159.3484)
2023-10-06	Smoke & Soul Fest 🏅 Casper, WY	6 / 28 (686.8112)	5 (171.9772)	6 (174.2628)	8 (172.0000)	12 (168.5712)
2023-05-12	Wild West BBQ Cook-Off 🏅 Lamar, CO	14 / 30 (663.9428)	4 (174.3088)	11 (170.2628)	20 (163.9656)	27 (155.4056)
2022-10-22	Meat Scream BBQ Competition-Day 2 🏅 Westminster, CO	13 / 31 (677.6916)	20 (166.2628)	13 (170.2744)	1 (177.7372)	22 (163.4172)
2022-10-21	Meat Scream BBQ Competition-Day 1 🏅 Westminster, CO	6 / 32 (687.3600)	8 (170.8228)	8 (171.4400)	2 (175.4056)	7 (169.6916)
2022-10-07	Smoke & Soul Fest 🏅 Casper, WY	12 / 29 (670.1596)	20 (165.6684)	15 (165.0856)	17 (165.6800)	4 (173.7256)
2022-08-19	Pepsi Wyoming State BBQ Championships & Bluegrass Festival 🏅 Worland, WY	17 / 29 (664.9828)	17 (166.2284)	13 (167.3944)	9 (170.8344)	17 (160.5256)
2021-10-02	Smoke & Soul Fest - Day 2 Casper, WY	20 / 26 (655.8860)	14 (169.6800)	12 (169.7032)	23 (158.8000)	21 (157.7028)
2021-10-01	Smoke & Soul Fest - Day 1 🏅 Casper, WY	19 / 27 (665.0744)	9 (173.1544)	17 (166.2628)	6 (171.9772)	25 (153.6800)
2021-08-27	Hill City Wine Brew and BBQ Fest 🏅 Hill City, SD	12 / 31 (685.7028)	17 (171.9656)	11 (173.1544)	5 (177.1544)	23 (163.4284)
2021-08-20	Pepsi Wyoming State BBQ Championships & Bluegrass Festival 🏅 Worland, WY	9 / 30 (677.0860)	19 (163.3944)	1 (178.8572)	17 (165.0972)	7 (169.7372)
2020-10-03	Smoke & Soul Fest-Day 2 🏅 Casper, WY	13 / 41 (681.6572)	24 (168.5600)	11 (171.9656)	14 (171.9772)	18 (169.1544)
2020-10-02	Smoke & Soul Fest-Day 1 🏅 Casper, WY	20 / 41 (674.2972)	6 (174.2972)	28 (163.4172)	7 (174.8800)	31 (161.7028)
2020-08-21	Hill City Wine Brew and BBQ Fest 🏅 Hill City, SD	25 / 43 (665.0516)	5 (174.8800)	5 (174.8572)	39 (153.0744)	25 (162.2400)
2019-09-27	BBQ In The Badlands 🏅 Glendive, MT	21 / 25 (607.9544)	13 (162.8800)	24 (138.2744)	15 (161.0972)	24 (145.7028)
2019-09-13	Smoke & Soul Fest 🏅 Casper, WY	8 / 28 (665.6460)	7 (168.5488)	9 (164.5716)	13 (163.3828)	5 (169.1428)
2019-08-23	Hill City Wine Brew & BBQ 🏅 Hill City, SD	20 / 31 (666.7316)	6 (176.0116)	14 (169.6800)	10 (169.6684)	31 (151.3716)
2019-08-16	Pepsi WY State Championship BBQ & Bluegrass Festival 🏅 Worland, WY	5 / 30 (681.0400)	7 (170.8228)	5 (173.7144)	2 (177.1544)	14 (159.3484)
2019-08-09	Milliken BBQ Beef N Bean Day 🏅 Milliken, CO	14 / 30 (663.8972)	18 (166.2400)	22 (163.3944)	13 (169.6800)	12 (164.5828)
2019-04-26	LuLu's Brew & Que 🏅 Brighton, CO	24 / 40 (656.9596)	19 (170.2628)	31 (157.6800)	14 (168.5256)	27 (160.4912)
2019-01-11	National Western BBQ Throwdown 🏅 Denver, CO	19 / 38 (669.6228)	11 (171.9772)	22 (164.0000)	17 (166.8228)	13 (166.8228)
2018-09-14	Smoke & Soul Fest Casper, WY	25 / 28 (621.6228)	15 (166.8572)	28 (134.9028)	19 (157.0628)	8 (162.8000)

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
2026 ↗	Master	#216 (767 pts)	#234 (772 pts)	#255 (766 pts)	#203 (802 pts)	#317 (532 pts)
2025 ↗	Master	#588 (277 pts)	#725 (227 pts)	#674 (277 pts)	#838 (157 pts)	#853 (147 pts)
2024 ↗	Master	#356 (612 pts)	#359 (647 pts)	#377 (632 pts)	#347 (647 pts)	#501 (412 pts)
2023 ↗	Master	#603 (278 pts)	#521 (383 pts)	#685 (293 pts)	#707 (228 pts)	#852 (173 pts)
2022 ↗	Master	#435 (501 pts)	#535 (406 pts)	#503 (486 pts)	#315 (771 pts)	#433 (531 pts)
2021 ↗	Master	#436 (419 pts)	#458 (424 pts)	#332 (614 pts)	#386 (504 pts)	#534 (349 pts)
2020 ↗	Master	#413 (265 pts)	#290 (425 pts)	#334 (375 pts)	#354 (340 pts)	#513 (215 pts)
2019 ↗	Master	#438 (744 pts)	#347 (909 pts)	#501 (689 pts)	#356 (929 pts)	#483 (699 pts)
2018 ↗	Master	#2560 (53 pts)	#1808 (103 pts)	#2552 (53 pts)	#1915 (83 pts)	#1488 (148 pts)