High-water mark
501.6000
career-best overall
139.3% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 501.6000 at Smoke in the Park (BACKYARD & KIDS QUE) — 139.3% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2021-08-06
BLOWIN' SMOKE - TONEY, AL
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1524
peak 1524 · rated over 4 contests ⓘ
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
2021-04-09
latest 2021-08-06
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 40%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
380.36
last 4 Backyard vs avg 380.36 (+0.00)
Walk rate
75%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±70.20
std dev of Backyard overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 172.79 · weakest Pork (160.50)
Road miles
219
mi across 4 mapped stops · furthest 68 mi
Schedule strength
41%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1553)
Purse competed for
$8K
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
380.36 / 360
4 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
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.
A tough matchup
3–0
behind in the head-to-head
NORALA BBQ TEAM ahead in 100% of their meetings
NORALA BBQ TEAM has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
A strong matchup
3–1
ahead in the head-to-head
Ahead in 75% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of HELL ON SQUEALS in 3 of their 4 shared contests.
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.
BLOWIN' SMOKE - TONEY, AL has 4 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 93 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.
#2382 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1524
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2015, 6 years before BLOWIN' SMOKE - TONEY, AL's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2371 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1524
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#2369 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1524
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2013, 8 years before BLOWIN' SMOKE - TONEY, AL's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#2388 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 50%
- Peak
- 1541
No shared contest yet.
Level with BLOWIN' SMOKE - TONEY, AL on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2377 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1530
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 3 years before BLOWIN' SMOKE - TONEY, AL's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2387 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 43%
- Peak
- 1523
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 7 contests to 4.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 174.2972 | 170.8228 | 172.79 | top 25% |
| Pork Ribs | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 174.2744 | 160.5256 | 166.37 | top 51% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.5028 | 160.5028 | 160.50 | top 84% |
| 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 (15 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0.3 yrs
2021-04-09 → 2021-08-06
Busiest season
2021
4 contests
Cooks most in
AL
4 of 4 contests
Contests visited
4
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
5 entries · 0 wins · 4 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 172.79 · weakest Pork (160.50)
Walk rate
75%
a top-10 call in 3 of 4 contests
Overall top-10 rate
25%
1 of 4 contests
Backyard average
380.36
out of 360 · 4 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
130
109–62 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
219
4 mapped stops · furthest 68 mi
Schedule strength
1553
average field rating faced — tougher than 41% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$8,150
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Power rating
1524
peak 1524 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2021
- First tracked contest Smoke on the Falls
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score338.7884 Smoke on the Falls
- First call Smoke on the Water Festival(BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall top-10 Smoke on the Water Festival(BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best overall score501.6000 Smoke in the Park (BACKYARD & KIDS QUE)
- Career-best single call (Chicken)174.2972 Smoke in the Park (BACKYARD & KIDS QUE)
- Peak power rating (1524) Smoke in the Park (BACKYARD & KIDS QUE)
- Most recent contest Smoke in the Park (BACKYARD & KIDS QUE)
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +14 | Smoke on the Water Festival(BACKYARD ONLY) | 2021-04-23 |
| +7.3 | Smoke on the Falls | 2021-04-09 |
| +4 | Smoke in the Park (BACKYARD & KIDS QUE) | 2021-08-06 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -1.8 | Reelin N Smokin Backyard BBQ Competition (BACKYARD ONLY) | 2021-06-11 |
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 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 75% | top 40% | 139.3% | 105.7% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-08-06 | Smoke in the Park (BACKYARD & KIDS QUE) Glencoe, AL | 14 / 31 (501.6000) | 4 (174.2972) | 17 (167.3944) | 26 (160.5028) | — |
| 2021-06-11 | Reelin N Smokin Backyard BBQ Competition (BACKYARD ONLY) Huntsville, AL | 19 / 31 (333.0856) | 9 (170.8228) | 23 (162.2628) | — | — |
| 2021-04-23 | Smoke on the Water Festival(BACKYARD ONLY) Florence, AL | 4 / 29 (347.9772) | 7 (173.7028) | 3 (174.2744) | — | — |
| 2021-04-09 | Smoke on the Falls 🏅 Gadsden, AL | 15 / 38 (338.7884) | 12 (171.4172) | 20 (167.3712) | — | — |
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 | — | #66 (576 pts) | #69 (476 pts) | — | — |