High-water mark
679.4976
career-best overall
94.4% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 679.4976 at Smoke on the Bay BBQ Cookoff — 94.4% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2026-08-22
Ye Olde Smokers
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1516
peak 1516 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2022-08-13
latest 2026-08-22
Best ToY finish
#880
Master 2022
Grand champs
0
1 reserve
Category wins
0
2 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 33%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Top-10 streak
2
and counting
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 168.56 · weakest Brisket (165.46)
Road miles
2
mi across 2 mapped stops
Master avg
666.86 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs
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.
Announced themselves early
5th
at their very first contest
Finished 5 of 11 at their very first tracked contest, Atlantic Canada Championship BBQ Festival (2022-08-13).
- 2022-08-13
- 11-team field
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.
Ye Olde Smokers 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 88 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.
#2600 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1525
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2602 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 8 years before Ye Olde Smokers's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2608 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1523
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2013, 9 years before Ye Olde Smokers's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#2585 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1522
No shared contest yet.
Level with Ye Olde Smokers on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2606 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1521
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2015, 11 years before Ye Olde Smokers's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2589 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1524
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2014, 12 years before Ye Olde Smokers'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 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 170.8572 | 166.2628 | 168.56 | top 61% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 170.2860 | 162.2516 | 166.27 | top 42% |
| Pork | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 170.2972 | 162.8572 | 166.58 | top 57% |
| Brisket | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 168.0572 | 162.8572 | 165.46 | top 33% |
“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
4 yrs
2022-08-13 → 2026-08-22
Busiest season
2026
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
NS
1 of 2 contests
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 2 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 168.56 · weakest Brisket (165.46)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 2 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
100%
2 of 2 contests
Best top-10 run
2
straight contests — and still running
Master average
666.86
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
17
14–5 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
2
2 mapped stops
Longest layoff
4 yrs
2022-08-13 → 2026-08-22
Power rating
1516
peak 1516 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2022
- First tracked contest Atlantic Canada Championship BBQ Festival
- First call Atlantic Canada Championship BBQ Festival
- First overall top-10 Atlantic Canada Championship BBQ Festival
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score654.2288 Atlantic Canada Championship BBQ Festival
- 2026
- First overall podium Smoke on the Bay BBQ Cookoff
- First Reserve Championship Smoke on the Bay BBQ Cookoff
- Career-best overall score679.4976 Smoke on the Bay BBQ Cookoff
- Career-best single call (Chicken)170.8572 Smoke on the Bay BBQ Cookoff
- Most recent contest Smoke on the Bay BBQ Cookoff
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 20% | 94.4% | 94.4% |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 45% | 90.9% | 90.9% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-22 | Smoke on the Bay BBQ Cookoff Little Brook, NS | 2 / 10 (679.4976) | 5 (170.8572) | 2 (170.2860) | 5 (170.2972) | 2 (168.0572) |
| 2022-08-13 | Atlantic Canada Championship BBQ Festival Nova Scotia, B0W 1M0 | 5 / 11 (654.2288) | 8 (166.2628) | 7 (162.2516) | 7 (162.8572) | 5 (162.8572) |
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 ↗ | Master | #880 (161 pts) | #1014 (131 pts) | #1046 (141 pts) | #985 (141 pts) | #899 (161 pts) |