High-water mark
628.9712
career-best overall
174.7% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 628.9712 at Plant City Pig Jam — 174.7% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2022-11-18
Smoke Em If Ya Got Em
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1501
peak 1506 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
2019-05-31
latest 2022-11-18
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 47%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 160.58 · weakest Pork Ribs (144.23)
Road miles
936
mi across 4 mapped stops · furthest 936 mi
Purse competed for
$26K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
461.00 / 360
2 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
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
3.5 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 3.5 years, then back at Plant City Pig Jam (2022-11-18).
- last seen 2019-05-31
- back 2022-11-18
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.
Smoke Em If Ya Got Em 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 101 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.
#3143 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1508
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#3142 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1522
No shared contest yet.
Level with Smoke Em If Ya Got Em on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3167 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2013, 6 years before Smoke Em If Ya Got Em's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3158 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1510
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#3141 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 2019, 3 years before Smoke Em If Ya Got Em's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3154 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 4 years before Smoke Em If Ya Got Em'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 | 165.6684 | 153.0740 | 159.37 | top 26% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 148.5028 | 139.9544 | 144.23 | top 58% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.5828 | 160.5828 | 160.58 | top 44% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.2172 | 154.2172 | 154.22 | top 44% |
“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 (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
3.5 yrs
2019-05-31 → 2022-11-18
Busiest season
2022
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 4 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
IL
3 of 4 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 2 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 160.58 · weakest Pork Ribs (144.23)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 2 of 4 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 4 contests
Backyard average
461.00
out of 360 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
97
45–50 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
936
4 mapped stops · furthest 936 mi
Purse competed for
$26,075
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
3.5 yrs
2019-05-31 → 2022-11-18
Power rating
1501
peak 1506 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2017
- First tracked contest Up In smoke on the Square
- 2019
- First call Up In Smoke on the Square
- 2022
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score628.9712 Plant City Pig Jam
- Career-best overall score628.9712 Plant City Pig Jam
- Career-best single call (Chicken)165.6684 Plant City Pig Jam
- Most recent contest Plant City Pig Jam
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 64% | 174.7% | 174.7% |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 31% | 81.4% | 81.4% |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-11-18 | Plant City Pig Jam 🏅 Plant City, FL | 16 / 25 (628.9712) | 9 (165.6684) | 20 (148.5028) | 11 (160.5828) | 11 (154.2172) |
| 2019-05-31 | Up In Smoke on the Square 🏅 Lincoln, IL | 11 / 36 (293.0284) | 6 (153.0740) | 13 (139.9544) | — | — |
| 2018-06-01 | *Up In smoke on the Square( WAIT LIST ONLY FOR JUDGES) Lincoln, IL | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2017-06-02 | Up In smoke on the Square Lincoln, IL | — | — | — | — | — |