High-water mark
689.6800
career-best overall
95.8% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 689.6800 at The Oklahoma Grand BBQ Championship Day 1 — 95.8% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- Sep 18, 2020
STX Smokers
STX Smokers is a competition barbecue team with 5 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2020 and 2022. Their best overall finish is 7th of 56 at The Oklahoma Grand BBQ Championship Day 1 (2020). They finished #454 in the 2020 Master Series Team of the Year standings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1539
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 32 invitational or side-series contests not counted
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
Apr 6, 2020
latest Sep 29, 2022 · 2.5 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
20% of 5 contests
Avg finish
top 36%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
20%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±6.06
spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Brisket
avg 171.42 · weakest Pork Ribs (169.84)
Road miles
681
across 5 mapped stops · furthest 395 mi
Schedule strength
96%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1654)
Purse competed for
$30K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 3 state-championship entries
Master avg
682.23 / 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)
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to STX Smokers, each with one reason worth a look.
STX Smokers has 3 rated contests, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 76 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#1,980 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1539
1–1 in 2 shared contests (50% to STX Smokers)
2 contests in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team STX Smokers has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head#1,987 of the rated field
- Contests
- 16
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1553
1–0 in 1 shared contest (100% to STX Smokers)
16 contests to 5: their number has had years to settle where STX Smokers's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head#1,997 of the rated field
- Contests
- 18
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 22%
- Peak
- 1539
2–0 in 2 shared contests (100% to STX Smokers)
This is the highest they've ever been rated, 16 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Head-to-head#1,985 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1539
Level with STX Smokers on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#1,991 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1539
Careers of much the same size, 7 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#1,989 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1539
Their last contest in the data was back in 2016, 6 years before STX Smokers's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careersFamiliar foes (most-met opponents in overall standings — one meeting per contest)
| Opponent | Meetings | Ahead | Behind | Win rate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MAN MEAT BBQ | 5 | 3 | 2 | 60% | ⚔ compare |
| RAZORRACKS | 5 | 3 | 2 | 60% | ⚔ compare |
| SMOKE THIS BBQ MO | 5 | 3 | 2 | 60% | ⚔ compare |
| Heavy Smoke BBQ | 5 | 2 | 3 | 40% | ⚔ compare |
By meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 174.2628 | 169.1200 | 170.99 | top 46% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 175.4172 | 165.6800 | 169.84 | top 47% |
| Pork | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 174.8572 | 163.9656 | 169.98 | top 45% |
| Brisket | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 174.2856 | 167.9772 | 171.42 | top 35% |
“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 field size and state
More numbers
Busiest season
2020
3 contests
Contests a season
2.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
KS
2 of 5 contests · 3 states in all
Contests visited
5
a different one every time
Opponents faced
609
finished ahead 645 times, behind 325
Longest layoff
2 yrs
Sep 19, 2020 → Sep 29, 2022
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20223 milestones
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)175.4172 American Royal World Series of Barbecue - OPEN CONTEST
- Peak power rating (1539) American Royal World Series of Barbecue - OPEN CONTEST
- Most recent contest American Royal World Series of Barbecue - OPEN CONTEST
20205 milestones
- First tracked contest Socially Distanced Smoking - Brisket presented by The BBQ League
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score167.4400 Socially Distanced Smoking - Brisket presented by The BBQ League
- First call The Oklahoma Grand BBQ Championship Day 1
- First overall top-10 The Oklahoma Grand BBQ Championship Day 1
- Career-best overall score689.6800 The Oklahoma Grand BBQ Championship Day 1
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +19.6 | The Oklahoma Grand BBQ Championship Day 1 | Sep 18, 2020 |
| +13 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - OPEN CONTEST | Sep 29, 2022 |
| +6.2 | The Oklahoma Grand BBQ Championship Day 2 | Sep 19, 2020 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 44% | 95.2% | 94.4% |
| 2020 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 33% | top 30% | 95.8% | 94.4% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 29, 2022 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - OPEN CONTEST 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 88 / 505 (685.6916) | 204 (169.1544) | 54 (175.4172) | 175 (170.2628) | 113 (170.8572) |
| Sep 29, 2022 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - INVITATIONAL CONTEST unrated Kansas City, KS | 178 / 249 (673.6228) | 167 (169.1200) | 196 (165.6800) | 114 (170.8456) | 151 (167.9772) |
| Sep 19, 2020 | The Oklahoma Grand BBQ Championship Day 2 🏅 Shawnee, OK | 29 / 56 (679.9312) | 34 (171.4172) | 22 (170.2628) | 49 (163.9656) | 15 (174.2856) |
| Sep 18, 2020 | The Oklahoma Grand BBQ Championship Day 1 🏅 Shawnee, OK | 7 / 56 (689.6800) | 9 (174.2628) | 33 (168.0116) | 6 (174.8572) | 18 (172.5484) |
| Apr 6, 2020 | Socially Distanced Smoking - Brisket presented by The BBQ League unrated washington, MO | 28 / 109 (167.4400) | — | — | — | — |
An unrated contest — an invitational, or a Competitor or Kosher Series board — is in the record but doesn’t move the power rating.