High-water mark
169.7828
career-best overall
94.3% of a perfect 180
Their best day on record: 169.7828 at Smoke in the Spring — 94.3% of a perfect 180.
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- Apr 9, 2021
Zoe Dobosenski
Zoe Dobosenski is a competition barbecue team with 6 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record in 2021. Their best overall finish is 6th of 105 at the Smoke in the Spring (2021).
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1517
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 11 invitational or side-series contest not counted
Contests
6
in the data
First seen
Apr 9, 2021
latest Apr 9, 2021
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
17% of 6 contests
Avg finish
top 6%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Road miles
2,294
across 6 mapped stops · furthest 770 mi
Purse competed for
$60K
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 4 state-championship entries
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Zoe Dobosenski has 1 rated contest, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 80 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#2,601 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1524
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- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1531
Level with Zoe Dobosenski on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ 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, 4 years before Zoe Dobosenski'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
They were already cooking in 2013, 8 years before Zoe Dobosenski's first contest.
⚔ Compare careers#2,606 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 29%
- Peak
- 1517
Careers of much the same size, 7 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ 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 |
|---|
“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.
More numbers
Busiest season
2021
3 contests
Contests a season
1.5
across 4 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
WI
2 of 6 contests · 5 states in all
Contests visited
1
a different one every time
Opponents faced
130
finished ahead 119 times, behind 10
Longest layoff
4.1 yrs
Aug 28, 2015 → Oct 18, 2019
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20221 milestone
- Most recent contest Bring'n Home the Bacon Day 1 (MASTER & BACKYARD)
20213 milestones
- First overall top-10 Smoke in the Spring
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score169.7828 Smoke in the Spring
- Career-best overall score169.7828 Smoke in the Spring
20151 milestone
- First tracked contest 8th Annual Big Island BBQ
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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2021 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0% | top 6% | 94.3% | 94.3% |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 2022 | Bring'n Home the Bacon Day 1 (MASTER & BACKYARD) 🏅 West Salem, WI | — | — | — | — | — |
| Jun 25, 2021 | Heritage Days BBQ Showdown (Day one) 🏅 Belvidere, IL | — | — | — | — | — |
| Jun 11, 2021 | Bring'n Home the Bacon - Day 1 🏅 West Salem, WI | — | — | — | — | — |
| Apr 9, 2021 | Smoke in the Spring 🏅 Osage City, KS | 6 / 105 (169.7828) | — | — | — | — |
| Oct 18, 2019 | Royal Oak Invitational Only (COMPETITOR SERIES) unrated Roswell, GA | — | — | — | — | — |
| Aug 28, 2015 | 8th Annual Big Island BBQ Albert Lea, MN | — | — | — | — | — |
An unrated contest — an invitational, or a Competitor or Kosher Series board — is in the record but doesn’t move the power rating.