Happy hunting ground
Top 19%
average finish here
Best of the Midwest BBQ is their spot: an average finish in the top 19% across 2 visits.
- 2 visits
- best finish 7th
- average top 19%
SMOKIN' YER BUTT GANG
SMOKIN' YER BUTT GANG is a competition barbecue team with 9 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2019 and 2022. Their best overall finish is 6th at the Cambridge Rib Fest (GRILLING SERIES) (). They are ranked #2272 of 6,476 teams in the KCBS power rankings. Also listed in KCBS results as “Smokin yer Butt Gang”.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1528
peak 1528 · rated over 5 contests
Contests
9
in the data
First seen
Jun 9, 2019
latest Oct 14, 2022 · 3.3 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
1
2 podiums
Overall top-10s
5
56% of 9 contests
Best top-10 run
3
straight overall top-10s, still running
Avg finish
top 32%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
299.02 ▼
last 5 Backyard vs avg 301.75 (-2.73)
Walk rate
78%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±18.74
spread of their Backyard overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 151.70 · weakest Pork Ribs (144.60)
Road miles
305
across 7 mapped stops · furthest 53 mi
Schedule strength
53%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1568)
Purse competed for
$43K
listed at 6 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 4 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
301.75 / 360
6 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
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 SMOKIN' YER BUTT GANG, each with one reason worth a look.
68 rated teams sit within a point of this rating, so a place on this list means the numbers match — no more than that.
#2,279 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 2
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1528
Fewer contests behind them than SMOKIN' YER BUTT GANG has cooked, 5 to 9, which makes theirs the less settled rating of the two.
⚔ Compare careers#2,265 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1542
They turned up 5 years after SMOKIN' YER BUTT GANG did, first appearing in 2024.
⚔ Compare careers#2,274 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 100%
- Peak
- 1528
5 straight overall top-10s says this rating is a moving target.
⚔ Compare careers#2,260 of the rated field
- Contests
- 9
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1529
Level with SMOKIN' YER BUTT GANG on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#2,261 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1529
Fewer contests behind them than SMOKIN' YER BUTT GANG has cooked, 6 to 9, which makes theirs the less settled rating of the two.
⚔ Compare careers#2,266 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 43%
- Peak
- 1528
Their last contest in the data was back in 2013, 9 years before SMOKIN' YER BUTT GANG's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careersBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 7 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 164 | 139.3140 | 151.70 | top 39% |
| Pork Ribs | 9 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 174.8572 | 129.0972 | 144.60 | top 46% |
“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
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 37% |
| Medium (20–39) | 3 | 0 | top 32% |
| Large (40+) | 2 | 0 | top 28% |
Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Best of the Midwest BBQ | 2 | 7 | 0 | top 19% | Oct 14, 2022 |
| Lake Country BBQ Cook-off (BACKYARD ONLY) | 2 | 7 | 0 | top 34% | Jun 9, 2019 |
More numbers
Busiest season
2022
3 contests
Contests a season
1.8
across 5 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
WI
5 of 9 contests · 2 states in all
Contests visited
5
2 of them more than once
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
9 entries · 1 win · 6 calls
Opponents faced
169
finished ahead 153 times, behind 109
Longest layoff
2 yrs
Jun 9, 2019 → Jun 25, 2021
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20222 milestones
- Peak power rating (1528) Best of the Midwest BBQ
- Most recent contest Best of the Midwest BBQ
—7 milestones
- First tracked contest Cambridge Rib Fest (GRILLING SERIES)
- First call Cambridge Rib Fest (GRILLING SERIES)
- First category win (Pork Ribs) Lake Country BBQ Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall top-10 Cambridge Rib Fest (GRILLING SERIES)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score331.9656 Lake Country BBQ Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best overall score331.9656 Lake Country BBQ Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)174.8572 Lake Country BBQ Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY)
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +11 | Best of the Midwest BBQ | Oct 22, 2021 |
| +7.8 | Best of the Midwest BBQ | Oct 14, 2022 |
| +6.3 | Lake Country BBQ Cook-off (BACKYARD ONLY) | Jun 9, 2019 |
| +1.7 | Heritage Days BBQ Showdown (Day One) | Jun 24, 2022 |
| +1.2 | Heritage Days BBQ Showdown (Day one) | Jun 25, 2021 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 100% | top 37% | 92.2% | 86.6% |
| 2022 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 67% | top 32% | 84.7% | 81.4% |
| 2021 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 50% | top 28% | 83% | 80.1% |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 32% | 87.6% | 87.6% |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 14, 2022 | Best of the Midwest BBQ 🏅 Union Grove, WI | 8 / 36 (305.0744) | 8 (154.8000) | 9 (150.2744) | — | — |
| Jun 24, 2022 | Heritage Days BBQ Showdown (Day One) 🏅 Belvidere, IL | 15 / 36 (281.0284) | 14 (145.1084) | 15 (135.9200) | — | — |
| May 14, 2022 | BBQ, BLESSINGS & THE VFW (ONE MEAT RIBS) Oconomowoc, WI | — | — | 10 (148.5256) | — | — |
| Oct 22, 2021 | Best of the Midwest BBQ 🏅 Union Grove, WI | 7 / 44 (278.1372) | 7 (149.0400) | 8 (129.0972) | — | — |
| Jun 25, 2021 | Heritage Days BBQ Showdown (Day one) 🏅 Belvidere, IL | 20 / 49 (298.8800) | 19 (152.5600) | 21 (146.3200) | — | — |
| Jun 9, 2019 | Lake Country BBQ Cook-off (BACKYARD ONLY) | 7 / 22 (315.4172) | 3 (164) | 11 (151.4172) | — | — |
| Oct 6, 2018 | Harbor-Que (BACKYARD ONLY) Winthrop Harbor, IL | — | 6 (139.3140) | 6 (129.6228) | — | — |
| — | Lake Country BBQ Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY) Okauchee, WI | 7 / 19 (331.9656) | 11 (157.1084) | 1 (174.8572) | — | — |
| — | Cambridge Rib Fest (GRILLING SERIES) Cambridge, WI | 6 (291.8972) | — | 6 (135.3600) | — | — |