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
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1493
peak 1501 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
9
in the data
First seen
2019-05-11
latest 2021-08-27
Best ToY finish
#1193
Master 2021
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
3 podiums
Overall top-10s
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 166.38 · weakest Brisket (131.37)
Road miles
416
mi across 9 mapped stops · furthest 167 mi
Purse competed for
$7K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
625.54 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
314.71 / 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.
Storylines (2 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.
The comeback
2 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 2 years, then back at Jack Daniel's World Championship Shade Tree Contest (BACKYARD) (JUDGES FULL) (2018-10-26).
- last seen 2016-10-21
- back 2018-10-26
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.
SMOKEY MOUNTAIN Q has 2 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 132 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.
#3489 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#3506 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1493
No shared contest yet.
Fewer contests behind them than SMOKEY MOUNTAIN Q has cooked, 5 to 9, which makes theirs the less settled rating of the two.
⚔ Head-to-head#3491 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1503
No shared contest yet.
Level with SMOKEY MOUNTAIN Q on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3496 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
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.
⚔ Head-to-head#3480 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
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.
⚔ Head-to-head#3494 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1513
No shared contest yet.
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.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 7 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 174.2744 | 155.9656 | 163.06 | top 54% |
| Pork Ribs | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 172.5600 | 152.5028 | 163.06 | top 49% |
| Pork | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 174.2628 | 158.2400 | 166.38 | top 39% |
| 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 contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 2 | 0 | top 68% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 32% |
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Great Americana BBQ Festival | 2 | 20 | 0 | top 68% | 2021-08-27 |
The story so far (17 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
2.3 yrs
2019-05-11 → 2021-08-27
Busiest season
2015
4 contests
Contests a season
1.8
across 5 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
TN
8 of 9 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
2
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
7 entries · 0 wins · 2 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 166.38 · weakest Brisket (131.37)
Walk rate
44%
a top-10 call in 4 of 9 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 9 contests
Master average
625.54
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Backyard average
314.71
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
134
68–90 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
416
9 mapped stops · furthest 167 mi
Purse competed for
$6,950
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
2 yrs
2016-10-21 → 2018-10-26
Power rating
1493
peak 1501 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2015
- First tracked contest Backyard BBQ Brawl (Competitor's Series)
- First call Backyard BBQ Brawl (Competitor's Series)
- 2018
- Career-best single call (Chicken)174.2744 Jack Daniel's World Championship Shade Tree Contest (BACKYARD) (JUDGES FULL)
- 2021
- Career-best overall score625.5436 Great Americana BBQ Festival
- Most recent contest Great Americana BBQ Festival
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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 84% | 86.9% | 86.9% |
| 2019 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 41% | 87.4% | 87.4% |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-08-27 | Great Americana BBQ Festival 🏅 Franklin, TN | 21 / 25 (625.5436) | 19 (157.0744) | 8 (172.5600) | 16 (164.5372) | 25 (131.3720) |
| 2019-08-23 | Great Americana BBQ Festival 🏅 Franklin, TN | 20 / 39 (314.7084) | 22 (157.6456) | 21 (157.0628) | 18 (158.2400) | — |
| 2019-05-11 | Dr.George Smith BBQ Brawl (COMPETITORS SERIES) unrated Murfreesboro, TN | 13 / 41 (498.8572) | 30 (157.7028) | 19 (162.2972) | — | — |
| 2018-10-26 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Shade Tree Contest (BACKYARD) (JUDGES FULL) Lynchburg, TN | — | 3 (174.2744) | 38 (152.5028) | 3 (173.1428) | — |
| 2016-10-21 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Shade Tree Contest (BACKYARD) Lynchburg, TN | — | 39 (155.9656) | 13 (168.5256) | 27 (161.7028) | — |
| 2015-11-20 | The National BBQ Cup Cumming, GA | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2015-10-23 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Shade Tree Contest (BACKYARD - JUDGES FULL) Lynchburg, TN | — | 26 (166.2284) | 21 (164.5484) | 5 (174.2628) | — |
| 2015-05-22 | Lewisburg Rotary Club BBQ CookOff Lewisburg, TN | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2015-04-24 | Backyard BBQ Brawl (Competitor's Series) Murfreesboro, TN | — | 2 (172.5484) | 11 (163.9544) | — | — |
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 ↗ | Master | #1193 (70 pts) | #1202 (80 pts) | #935 (145 pts) | #1131 (95 pts) | #1574 (50 pts) |