High-water mark
666.1716
career-best overall
92.5% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 666.1716 at Smoking in the Foothills Barbecue Competition And Festival — 92.5% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- Oct 20, 2017
Sunnyside Smoke
Sunnyside Smoke is a competition barbecue team with 6 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2017 and 2022. Their best overall finish is 3rd of 35 at the Shelby BBQ Extravaganza (Day 1) (2022).
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1517
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 3
Contests
6
in the data
First seen
Oct 20, 2017
latest Oct 29, 2022 · 5 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
1
1 podium
Overall top-10s
1
17% of 6 contests
Avg finish
top 47%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 172.36 · weakest Brisket (154.25)
Road miles
197
across 6 mapped stops · furthest 93 mi
Schedule strength
93%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1640)
Purse competed for
$11K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
665.33 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
340.51 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 0 GCs
These overall scores sit on different scales (Master out of 720, Backyard out of 360), so they're kept separate — averaging them together would be misleading.
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to Sunnyside Smoke, each with one reason worth a look.
Sunnyside Smoke has 3 rated contests, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 78 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#2,601 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1524
Careers of much the same size, 6 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#2,586 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1524
Level with Sunnyside Smoke on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#2,588 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1531
They turned up 6 years after Sunnyside Smoke did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Compare careers#2,596 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1522
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 5 years before Sunnyside Smoke's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#2,603 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1524
Their last contest in the data was back in 2014, 8 years before Sunnyside Smoke's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#2,604 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 29%
- Peak
- 1527
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 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 177.7144 | 168.5372 | 172.36 | top 19% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 171.9772 | 161.1200 | 167.79 | top 44% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 172.5600 | 169.6800 | 171.12 | top 26% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.3944 | 153.0972 | 154.25 | top 90% |
“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.
Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shelby BBQ Extravaganza (Day 2) | 2 | 3 | 0 | top 48% | Oct 29, 2022 |
More numbers
Contests a season
2
across 3 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
NC
6 of 6 contests
Contests visited
2
1 of them more than once
Opponents faced
77
finished ahead 64 times, behind 58
Longest layoff
5 yrs
Oct 20, 2017 → Oct 28, 2022
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20226 milestones
- First category win (Pork Ribs) Shelby BBQ Extravaganza (Day 1)
- First overall top-10 Shelby BBQ Extravaganza (Day 1)
- First overall podium Shelby BBQ Extravaganza (Day 1)
- Peak power rating (1525) Shelby BBQ Extravaganza (Day 1)
- Career-best single call (Chicken)177.7144 Shelby BBQ Extravaganza (Day 2)
- Most recent contest Shelby BBQ Extravaganza (Day 2)
20173 milestones
- First call Smoking in the Foothills Barbecue Competition And Festival
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score666.1716 Smoking in the Foothills Barbecue Competition And Festival
- Career-best overall score666.1716 Smoking in the Foothills Barbecue Competition And Festival
20161 milestone
- First tracked contest Mountain High BBQ Festival & Car Show
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +17.8 | Shelby BBQ Extravaganza (Day 1) | Oct 28, 2022 |
| +6.8 | Smoking in the Foothills Barbecue Competition And Festival | Oct 20, 2017 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -7.6 | Shelby BBQ Extravaganza (Day 2) | Oct 29, 2022 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 100% | top 48% | 94.6% | 93.4% |
| 2017 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 44% | 92.5% | 92.5% |
| 2016 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 29, 2022 | Shelby BBQ Extravaganza (Day 2) 🏅 Shelby, NC | 30 / 34 (664.4916) | 5 (177.7144) | 33 (161.1200) | 11 (172.5600) | 33 (153.0972) |
| Oct 28, 2022 | Shelby BBQ Extravaganza (Day 1) 🏅 Shelby, NC | 3 / 35 (340.5144) | 5 (168.5372) | 1 (171.9772) | — | — |
| Oct 20, 2017 | Smoking in the Foothills Barbecue Competition And Festival Lenoir, NC | 17 / 39 (666.1716) | 11 (170.8344) | 13 (170.2628) | 8 (169.6800) | 32 (155.3944) |
| Sep 22, 2017 | Butts and Beans BBQ Challenge Newton, NC | — | — | — | — | — |
| Oct 14, 2016 | Smoking in the Foothills Lenoir, NC | — | — | — | — | — |
| Aug 12, 2016 | Mountain High BBQ Festival & Car Show Franklin, NC | — | — | — | — | — |