#3573 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1491
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headThe Holy Smokers
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1491
peak 1491 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2021-05-28
latest 2021-05-28
Best ToY finish
#1209
Master 2021
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 85%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 161.10 · weakest Brisket (137.12)
Road miles
1,030
mi across 2 mapped stops · furthest 1030 mi
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Master avg
596.38 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
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.
The Holy Smokers has 1 rated contest — 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 145 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.
#3620 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 5 years after The Holy Smokers did, first appearing in 2026.
⚔ Head-to-head#3574 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
Level with The Holy Smokers on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3610 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where The Holy Smokers's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head#3609 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1491
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3618 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1491
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 151.9544 | 151.9544 | 151.95 | top 81% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.0972 | 161.0972 | 161.10 | top 62% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 146.2056 | 146.2056 | 146.21 | top 88% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 137.1200 | 137.1200 | 137.12 | top 85% |
“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 yrs
2021-05-28 → 2021-05-28
Busiest season
2021
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
NV
1 of 2 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
1
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
1 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 161.10 · weakest Brisket (137.12)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 2 contests
Master average
596.38
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
25
4–21 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
1,030
2 mapped stops · furthest 1,030 mi
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
4.7 yrs
2016-09-03 → 2021-05-28
Power rating
1491
peak 1491 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2016
- First tracked contest City of Bedford Blues & BBQ Festival
- 2021
- Career-best overall score596.3772 The Best Dam Barbeque
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)161.0972 The Best Dam Barbeque
- Most recent contest The Best Dam Barbeque
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 | 0% | top 85% | 82.8% | 82.8% |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-05-28 | The Best Dam Barbeque 🏅 Boulder City, NV | 22 / 26 (596.3772) | 21 (151.9544) | 16 (161.0972) | 23 (146.2056) | 22 (137.1200) |
| 2016-09-03 | City of Bedford Blues & BBQ Festival Bedford, TX | — | — | — | — | — |
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 | #1209 (66 pts) | #1249 (71 pts) | #1179 (96 pts) | #1260 (61 pts) | #1223 (66 pts) |