High-water mark
687.9544
career-best overall
95.5% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 687.9544 at American Royal World Series of Barbecue - OPEN CONTEST — 95.5% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- Sep 29, 2022
RECTEQ SMOKERS
RECTEQ SMOKERS is a competition barbecue team with 6 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2022 and 2023. Their best overall finish is 13th of 42 at the Boss Hog State Championship Cook-Off (2022). They finished #706 in the 2022 Master Series Team of the Year standings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1526
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 4
Contests
6
in the data
First seen
May 13, 2022
latest May 12, 2023 · 1 year on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podium
Overall top-10s
0
0% of 6 contests
Avg finish
top 39%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±4.45
spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 171.41 · weakest Brisket (167.83)
Road miles
1,656
across 6 mapped stops · furthest 811 mi
Schedule strength
65%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1583)
Purse competed for
$62K
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 4 state-championship entries
Master avg
681.49 / 720
4 Master contests · 0 GCs
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 RECTEQ SMOKERS, each with one reason worth a look.
RECTEQ SMOKERS has 4 rated contests, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 71 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#2,325 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1531
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#2,315 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 29%
- Peak
- 1529
Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2022.
⚔ Compare careers#2,317 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1526
Their last contest in the data was back in 2016, 7 years before RECTEQ SMOKERS's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#2,328 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1526
Level with RECTEQ SMOKERS on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#2,321 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 50%
- Peak
- 1526
3 straight overall top-10s says this rating is a moving target.
⚔ Compare careers#2,324 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 29%
- Peak
- 1539
Careers of much the same size, 7 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careersBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 177.7144 | 159.4172 | 171.41 | top 35% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 176.5716 | 164.5372 | 169.98 | top 42% |
| Pork | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 174.2744 | 162.8000 | 169.26 | top 45% |
| Brisket | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 172 | 159.3484 | 167.83 | 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
More numbers
Busiest season
2022
5 contests
Contests a season
3
across 2 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
GA
4 of 6 contests · 2 states in all
Contests visited
4
a different one every time
Most-entered meat
Chicken
5 entries · 0 wins · 2 calls
Opponents faced
578
finished ahead 510 times, behind 124
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20232 milestones
- Career-best single call (Chicken)177.7144 17th Annual Boss Hog State Championship Cook-Off
- Most recent contest 17th Annual Boss Hog State Championship Cook-Off
20225 milestones
- First tracked contest Boss Hog State Championship Cook-Off
- First call Boss Hog State Championship Cook-Off
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score682.7660 Boss Hog State Championship Cook-Off
- Career-best overall score687.9544 American Royal World Series of Barbecue - OPEN CONTEST
- Peak power rating (1526) Papa Joe's Banjo-B-Que Music Festival
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +15.2 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - OPEN CONTEST | Sep 29, 2022 |
| +8.8 | Boss Hog State Championship Cook-Off | May 13, 2022 |
| +2.4 | Papa Joe's Banjo-B-Que Music Festival | Oct 14, 2022 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -0.3 | 17th Annual Boss Hog State Championship Cook-Off | May 12, 2023 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 55% | 93.9% | 93.9% |
| 2022 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 40% | top 33% | 95.5% | 94.9% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 2023 | 17th Annual Boss Hog State Championship Cook-Off 🏅 Waynesboro, GA | 22 / 40 (675.9088) | 2 (177.7144) | 34 (164.5372) | 34 (162.8000) | 12 (170.8572) |
| Oct 14, 2022 | Papa Joe's Banjo-B-Que Music Festival 🏅 Grovetown, GA | 29 / 51 (679.3144) | 20 (173.1200) | 5 (176.5716) | 20 (170.2744) | 45 (159.3484) |
| Oct 14, 2022 | Papa Joe's Banjo-B-Que Music Festival - One Meat Chicken Grovetown, GA | — | 32 (159.4172) | — | — | — |
| Oct 1, 2022 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - SIDES Kansas City, KS | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sep 29, 2022 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - OPEN CONTEST 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 64 / 505 (687.9544) | 112 (172.5600) | 198 (169.1200) | 80 (174.2744) | 87 (172) |
| May 13, 2022 | Boss Hog State Championship Cook-Off 🏅 Waynesboro, GA | 13 / 42 (682.7660) | 10 (174.2628) | 14 (169.6916) | 17 (169.6800) | 21 (169.1316) |