The one to beat
2×
one call ahead of them
SMOAKWOOD has finished one call ahead of HotItems 2 times — their closest competition in the data.
HotItems
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1491
peak 1491 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
2023-05-05
latest 2023-05-06
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 62%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 148.92 · weakest Chicken (147.02)
Road miles
0
mi across 4 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$6K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
294.22 / 360
2 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Storylines (1 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.
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.
HotItems 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 141 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.
#3573 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1491
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#3574 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
Level with HotItems on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3559 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#3590 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1491
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2020, 3 years before HotItems's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3561 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1492
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2013, 10 years before HotItems's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3581 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1503
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 6 years before HotItems'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 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 153.1200 | 140.5484 | 147.02 | top 71% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 152.5144 | 146.2400 | 148.92 | top 67% |
| Pork | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
| Brisket | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 63% |
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 60% |
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delaware Bay-B-Que - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (Day 2) | 2 | 12 | 0 | top 62% | 2023-05-06 |
The story so far (14 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0 yrs
2023-05-05 → 2023-05-06
Busiest season
2023
4 contests
Cooks most in
DE
4 of 4 contests
Contests visited
1
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
3 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 148.92 · weakest Chicken (147.02)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 2 of 4 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 4 contests
Backyard average
294.22
out of 360 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
35
16–44 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
0
4 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$5,800
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Power rating
1491
peak 1491 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2023
- First tracked contest Delaware Bay-B-Que - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (Day 1)
- First call Delaware Bay-B-Que - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (ONE MEAT CHICKEN)
- Career-best single call (Chicken)153.1200 Delaware Bay-B-Que - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (ONE MEAT CHICKEN)
- Career-best overall score299.8972 Delaware Bay-B-Que - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (Day 2)
- Most recent contest Delaware Bay-B-Que - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (Day 2)
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 62% | 83.3% | 81.7% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-05-06 | Delaware Bay-B-Que - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (Day 2) 🏅 Lincoln, DE | 12 / 19 (299.8972) | 12 (147.3828) | 11 (152.5144) | — | — |
| 2023-05-06 | Delaware Bay-B-Que - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (ONE MEAT RIBS) Lincoln, DE | — | — | 8 (146.2400) | — | — |
| 2023-05-05 | Delaware Bay-B-Que - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (ONE MEAT CHICKEN) Lincoln, DE | — | 8 (153.1200) | — | — | — |
| 2023-05-05 | Delaware Bay-B-Que - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (Day 1) 🏅 Lincoln, DE | 12 / 20 (288.5484) | 12 (140.5484) | 11 (148.0000) | — | — |