A tough matchup
3–0
behind in the head-to-head
Smokin' Bandits BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings
Smokin' Bandits BBQ has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
SMOKEY MOUNTAIN Q
SMOKEY MOUNTAIN Q is a competition barbecue team with 9 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2019 and 2021. Their best overall finish is 13th of 41 at the Dr.George Smith BBQ Brawl (COMPETITORS SERIES) (2019). They finished #1193 in the 2021 Master Series Team of the Year standings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1493
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 21 invitational or side-series contest not counted
Contests
9
in the data
First seen
May 11, 2019
latest Aug 27, 2021 · 2.3 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
3 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
0% of 9 contests
Avg finish
top 56%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
44%
contests with a top-10 call
Best single call
174.2744
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 168.41 · weakest Brisket (131.37)
Road miles
416
across 9 mapped stops · furthest 167 mi
Purse competed for
$6,950
listed at 1 contest — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
625.54 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
314.71 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 0 GCs
These overall scores sit on different scales (Master 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.
Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 ↗ | Master | #1193 (70 pts) | #1202 (80 pts) | #935 (145 pts) | #1131 (95 pts) | #1574 (50 pts) |
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to SMOKEY MOUNTAIN Q, each with one reason worth a look.
SMOKEY MOUNTAIN Q has 2 rated contests, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 139 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#3,503 of the rated field
- Contests
- 34
- GCs
- 2
- Top-10s
- 9%
- Peak
- 1552
1–0 in 1 shared contest (100% to SMOKEY MOUNTAIN Q)
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team SMOKEY MOUNTAIN Q has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head#3,513 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1493
Fewer contests behind them than SMOKEY MOUNTAIN Q has cooked, 5 to 9, which makes theirs the less settled rating of the two.
⚔ Compare careers#3,511 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1503
Level with SMOKEY MOUNTAIN Q on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#3,500 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1504
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 3 years before SMOKEY MOUNTAIN Q's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#3,487 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1505
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 4 years before SMOKEY MOUNTAIN Q's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#3,504 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1513
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 4 years before SMOKEY MOUNTAIN Q'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 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 174.2744 | 155.9656 | 163.97 | top 54% |
| Pork Ribs | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 172.5600 | 152.5028 | 164.06 | top 48% |
| Pork | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 174.2628 | 161.7028 | 168.41 | top 37% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 131.3720 | 131.3720 | 131.37 | top 100% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 2 | 0 | top 68% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 32% |
Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Great Americana BBQ Festival | 2 | 20 | 0 | top 68% | Aug 27, 2021 |
More numbers
Busiest season
2015
4 contests
Contests a season
1.8
across 5 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
TN
8 of 9 contests · 2 states in all
Contests visited
2
1 of them more than once
Opponents faced
134
finished ahead 68 times, behind 90
Longest layoff
2 yrs
Oct 21, 2016 → Oct 26, 2018
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20212 milestones
- Career-best overall score625.5436 Great Americana BBQ Festival
- Most recent contest Great Americana BBQ Festival
20191 milestone
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score498.8572 Dr.George Smith BBQ Brawl (COMPETITORS SERIES)
20181 milestone
- Career-best single call (Chicken)174.2744 Jack Daniel's World Championship Shade Tree Contest (BACKYARD) (JUDGES FULL)
20152 milestones
- First tracked contest Backyard BBQ Brawl (Competitor's Series)
- First call Backyard BBQ Brawl (Competitor's Series)
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 84% | 86.9% | 86.9% |
| 2019 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 41% | 92.4% | 89.9% |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | — | — | — |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2015 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 2021 | Great Americana BBQ Festival 🏅 Franklin, TN | 21 / 25 (625.5436) | 19 (157.0744) | 8 (172.5600) | 16 (164.5372) | 25 (131.3720) |
| Aug 23, 2019 | Great Americana BBQ Festival 🏅 Franklin, TN | 20 / 39 (314.7084) | — | — | — | — |
| May 11, 2019 | Dr.George Smith BBQ Brawl (COMPETITORS SERIES) unrated Murfreesboro, TN | 13 / 41 (498.8572) | 30 (157.7028) | 19 (162.2972) | — | — |
| Oct 26, 2018 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Shade Tree Contest (BACKYARD) (JUDGES FULL) Lynchburg, TN | — | 3 (174.2744) | 38 (152.5028) | 3 (173.1428) | — |
| Oct 21, 2016 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Shade Tree Contest (BACKYARD) Lynchburg, TN | — | 39 (155.9656) | 13 (168.5256) | 27 (161.7028) | — |
| Nov 20, 2015 | The National BBQ Cup Cumming, GA | — | — | — | — | — |
| Oct 23, 2015 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Shade Tree Contest (BACKYARD - JUDGES FULL) Lynchburg, TN | — | 26 (166.2284) | 21 (164.5484) | 5 (174.2628) | — |
| May 22, 2015 | Lewisburg Rotary Club BBQ CookOff Lewisburg, TN | — | — | — | — | — |
| Apr 24, 2015 | Backyard BBQ Brawl (Competitor's Series) Murfreesboro, TN | — | 2 (172.5484) | 11 (163.9544) | — | — |
An unrated contest — an invitational, or a Competitor or Kosher Series board — is in the record but doesn’t move the power rating.