High-water mark
338.2512
career-best overall
94.0% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 338.2512 at Bourbon, Brews & BBQ(BACKYARD ONLY) — 94.0% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
SMOKIN' ROAMERS
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1489
peak 1489 · rated over 5 contests ⓘ
Contests
6
in the data
First seen
2020-10-16
latest 2021-08-22
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
of 6 contests
Avg finish
top 55%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
324.19 ▲
last 5 Backyard vs avg 321.66 (+2.52)
Walk rate
67%
contests with a top-10 call
Top-10 streak
2
and counting
Consistency
±10.52
std dev of Backyard overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 161.90 · weakest Pork Ribs (159.77)
Road miles
386
mi across 5 mapped stops · furthest 99 mi
Schedule strength
32%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1542)
Purse competed for
$18K
listed at 4 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
321.66 / 360
6 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Storylines (4 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.
A tough matchup
5–0
behind in the head-to-head
Porket About It ahead in 100% of their meetings
Porket About It has come out ahead in 5 of their 5 shared contests.
Announced themselves early
4th
at their very first contest
Finished 4 of 15 at their very first tracked contest, Bourbon, Brews & BBQ(BACKYARD ONLY) ().
- 15-team field
Looking over their shoulder
2×
one call behind them
Unknown Smokers has landed one call behind them 2 times.
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.
150 rated teams sit within a point of this rating, so a place on this list means the numbers match — no more than that.
#3712 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#3730 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 5 years after SMOKIN' ROAMERS did, first appearing in 2025.
⚔ Head-to-head#3698 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1500
No shared contest yet.
Level with SMOKIN' ROAMERS on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3697 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1489
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#3733 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1511
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 3 years before SMOKIN' ROAMERS's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3720 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 4 years before SMOKIN' ROAMERS's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headFamiliar foes (most-met opponents in overall standings — one meeting per contest)
| Opponent | Meetings | Ahead | Behind | Win rate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Good Grefe! | 6 | 2 | 4 | 33% | ⚔ compare |
| THE GREAT PIG IN THE SKY | 6 | 1 | 5 | 17% | ⚔ compare |
| UGLY BABY BBQ | 5 | 1 | 4 | 20% | ⚔ compare |
| Porket About It | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
By meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 167.4172 | 155.4172 | 161.90 | top 52% |
| Pork Ribs | 6 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 173.7028 | 147.8968 | 159.77 | top 50% |
| 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.
By state / province
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| MN | 4 | 0 | top 62% |
| WI | 1 | 0 | top 53% |
| IA | 1 | 0 | top 27% |
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 3 | 0 | top 47% |
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 71% |
| Large (40+) | 2 | 0 | top 58% |
The story so far (17 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0.8 yrs
2020-10-16 → 2021-08-22
Busiest season
2021
4 contests
Contests a season
2
across 3 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
MN
4 of 6 contests · 3 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
6
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
6 entries · 0 wins · 2 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 161.90 · weakest Pork Ribs (159.77)
Walk rate
67%
a top-10 call in 4 of 6 contests
Overall top-10 rate
33%
2 of 6 contests
Best top-10 run
2
straight contests — and still running
Backyard average
321.66
out of 360 · 6 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
148
78–148 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
386
5 mapped stops · furthest 99 mi
Schedule strength
1542
average field rating faced — tougher than 32% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$17,850
listed at 4 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Power rating
1489
peak 1489 · #3726 of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- First tracked contest Bourbon, Brews & BBQ(BACKYARD ONLY)
- First call Bourbon, Brews & BBQ(BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall top-10 Bourbon, Brews & BBQ(BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score338.2512 Bourbon, Brews & BBQ(BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best overall score338.2512 Bourbon, Brews & BBQ(BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)173.7028 Bourbon, Brews & BBQ(BACKYARD ONLY)
- 2020
- Peak power rating (1499) Bring'n Home the Bacon Day 1
- 2021
- Most recent contest Big Island BBQ Backyard
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +2.2 | Big Island BBQ Backyard | 2021-08-22 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -6.1 | Minnesota in May | 2021-05-07 |
| -4.9 | B-Dale BBQ Contest (BACKYARD ONLY) | 2021-08-07 |
| -1.5 | Bring'n Home the Bacon Day 1 | 2020-10-16 |
| -1.1 | Boomer Backyard BBQ Cookoff (BACKYARD ONLY) | 2021-08-21 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 27% | 94% | 94% |
| 2021 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 75% | top 62% | 91.4% | 89.1% |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 53% | 85.8% | 85.8% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-08-22 | Big Island BBQ Backyard Albert Lea, MN | 8 / 15 (329.0856) | 12 (162.2744) | 7 (166.8112) | — | — |
| 2021-08-21 | Boomer Backyard BBQ Cookoff (BACKYARD ONLY) Canton, MN | 11 / 18 (323.4060) | 14 (160.5716) | 8 (162.8344) | — | — |
| 2021-08-07 | B-Dale BBQ Contest (BACKYARD ONLY) Roseville, MN | 15 / 21 (321.6456) | 4 (167.4172) | 17 (154.2284) | — | — |
| 2021-05-07 | Minnesota in May 🏅 Cambridge, MN | 38 / 60 (308.5372) | 36 (155.4172) | 36 (153.1200) | — | — |
| 2020-10-16 | Bring'n Home the Bacon Day 1 🏅 West Salem, WI | 21 / 40 (309.0512) | 14 (161.1544) | 23 (147.8968) | — | — |
| Bourbon, Brews & BBQ(BACKYARD ONLY) Bancroft, IA | 4 / 15 (338.2512) | 6 (164.5484) | 2 (173.7028) | — | — |
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 | — | #63 (614 pts) | #56 (669 pts) | — | — |
| 2020 ↗ | Backyard | — | #86 (105 pts) | #107 (60 pts) | — | — |