#2270 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 2
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1528
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headForged In Smoke BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1527
peak 1527 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2020-10-16
latest 2021-06-25
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 11%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Top-10 streak
2
and counting
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 165.99 · weakest Pork Ribs (156.83)
Road miles
49
mi across 2 mapped stops · furthest 49 mi
Purse competed for
$14K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
322.82 / 360
2 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
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.
Forged In Smoke 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 69 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.
#2277 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1527
No shared contest yet.
Level with Forged In Smoke BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2280 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1530
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2287 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1527
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2281 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1532
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2014, 6 years before Forged In Smoke BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#2286 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1527
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2016, 5 years before Forged In Smoke BBQ'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 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 173.1200 | 158.8572 | 165.99 | top 7% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 157.1316 | 156.5260 | 156.83 | top 20% |
| Pork | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
| Brisket | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
“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 (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0.7 yrs
2020-10-16 → 2021-06-25
Busiest season
2021
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
IL
1 of 2 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 2 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 165.99 · weakest Pork Ribs (156.83)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 2 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
100%
2 of 2 contests
Best top-10 run
2
straight contests — and still running
Backyard average
322.82
out of 360 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
103
107–18 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
49
2 mapped stops · furthest 49 mi
Purse competed for
$13,700
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Power rating
1527
peak 1527 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2020
- First tracked contest Best of the Midwest BBQ
- First call Best of the Midwest BBQ
- First overall top-10 Best of the Midwest BBQ
- 2021
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score329.6460 Heritage Days BBQ Showdown (Day one)
- Career-best overall score329.6460 Heritage Days BBQ Showdown (Day one)
- Career-best single call (Chicken)173.1200 Heritage Days BBQ Showdown (Day one)
- Most recent contest Heritage Days BBQ Showdown (Day one)
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 10% | 91.6% | 91.6% |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 12% | 87.8% | 87.8% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-06-25 | Heritage Days BBQ Showdown (Day one) 🏅 Belvidere, IL | 5 / 49 (329.6460) | 3 (173.1200) | 14 (156.5260) | — | — |
| 2020-10-16 | Best of the Midwest BBQ 🏅 Union Grove, WI | 6 / 50 (315.9888) | 4 (158.8572) | 6 (157.1316) | — | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 ↗ | Backyard | — | #128 (221 pts) | #222 (101 pts) | — | — |
| 2020 ↗ | Backyard | — | #55 (184 pts) | #70 (149 pts) | — | — |