#3712 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headLaughing Scotsman BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1488
peak 1488 · rated over 3 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2021-06-11
latest 2022-09-16
Best ToY finish
#1029
Master 2021
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 69%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
33%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 165.13 · weakest Brisket (152.25)
Road miles
483
mi across 3 mapped stops · furthest 343 mi
Schedule strength
56%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1572)
Purse competed for
$15K
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 3 state-championship entries
Master avg
641.90 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
460.00 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 0 GCs
Master and Backyard overall scores sit on different scales (Master is out of 720, Backyard out of 360), so they're kept separate — averaging them together would be misleading.
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.
Laughing Scotsman BBQ has 3 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 146 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.
#3730 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
Level with Laughing Scotsman BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3740 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#3726 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1489
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 6 contests to 3.
⚔ 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, 4 years before Laughing Scotsman BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3744 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2013, 8 years before Laughing Scotsman BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 166.8572 | 148.0000 | 157.90 | top 67% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.1200 | 144.5716 | 156.74 | top 70% |
| Pork | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.4284 | 161.6684 | 165.13 | top 56% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 156.5260 | 147.9656 | 152.25 | top 79% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| IL | 1 | 0 | top 67% |
| OH | 1 | 0 | top 68% |
| WV | 1 | 0 | top 73% |
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 73% |
| Medium (20–39) | 2 | 0 | top 67% |
The story so far (17 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1.3 yrs
2021-06-11 → 2022-09-16
Busiest season
2022
2 contests
Contests a season
1.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
IL
1 of 3 contests · 3 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
3
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
3 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 165.13 · weakest Brisket (152.25)
Walk rate
33%
a top-10 call in 1 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 3 contests
Master average
641.90
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Backyard average
460.00
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
93
25–70 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
483
3 mapped stops · furthest 343 mi
Schedule strength
1572
average field rating faced — tougher than 56% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$15,300
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 3 state-championship entries
Power rating
1488
peak 1488 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2021
- First tracked contest City of Welch Coalfields Cook-off
- First call City of Welch Coalfields Cook-off
- Career-best overall score645.5888 City of Welch Coalfields Cook-off
- Peak power rating (1497) City of Welch Coalfields Cook-off
- 2022
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score460.0000 Smokin' For Garrett
- Career-best single call (Pork)167.4284 Smokin' For Garrett
- Most recent contest Smokin' For Garrett
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -5.5 | Smokin' For Garrett | 2022-09-16 |
| -3.4 | City of Welch Coalfields Cook-off | 2021-06-11 |
| -2.8 | Marietta River City BBQ | 2022-04-29 |
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)
Team of the Year rank by season
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 67% | 127.8% | 108.2% |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 73% | 89.7% | 89.7% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-09-16 | Smokin' For Garrett 🏅 Mt. Carmel, IL | 18 / 27 (460.0000) | 17 (148.0000) | 18 (144.5716) | 11 (167.4284) | — |
| 2022-04-29 | Marietta River City BBQ 🏅 Marietta, OH | 17 / 25 (638.2172) | 21 (158.8344) | 14 (165.1200) | 12 (166.2972) | 21 (147.9656) |
| 2021-06-11 | City of Welch Coalfields Cook-off 🏅 Welch, WV | 11 / 15 (645.5888) | 8 (166.8572) | 13 (160.5372) | 12 (161.6684) | 11 (156.5260) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 ↗ | Backyard | — | #306 (83 pts) | #315 (78 pts) | — | — |
| 2022 ↗ | Master | #1190 (90 pts) | #1306 (70 pts) | #1227 (105 pts) | #1114 (115 pts) | #1291 (70 pts) |
| 2021 ↗ | Master | #1029 (110 pts) | #920 (135 pts) | #1164 (100 pts) | #1091 (105 pts) | #1059 (110 pts) |