This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
2019 was the year it came together: 4 contests, 0 Grand Championships and 3 category wins, at an average finish in the top 24%.
Pork Ribs is where the weekend gets away from them — it averages 11.27 points below their pork, and turns into a call 33% of the time against 100%.
Ahead in 100% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of Barking Pig BBQ in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
Off the trail for 2.7 years, then back at The High on the Hog Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) (2022-05-20).
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.
CreekBank Smokers has 4 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 95 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.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2015, 7 years before CreekBank Smokers's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headCareers of much the same size, 5 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2013, 6 years before CreekBank Smokers's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with CreekBank Smokers on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headCareers of much the same size, 6 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-headCareers of much the same size, 6 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head| Opponent | Meetings | Ahead | Behind | Win rate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LEE LA Q | 6 | 2 | 4 | 33% | ⚔ compare |
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 6 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 178.2972 | 163.4284 | 171.91 | top 30% |
| Pork Ribs | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 168.5372 | 155.9084 | 163.57 | top 51% |
| Pork | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 176.5600 | 173.1316 | 174.85 | top 3% |
| 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.
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| TN | 4 | 0 | top 29% |
| AL | 2 | 0 | top 50% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 5 | 0 | top 40% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 17% |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +16.1 | High on the Hog Festival | 2019-04-19 |
| +10.7 | Great Americana BBQ Festival | 2019-08-23 |
| +1.8 | Elkmont Lions Club Smokin Railroad St. BBQ Cook-off (BACKYARD ONLY) | 2019-06-21 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -4.9 | The High on the Hog Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) | 2022-05-20 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 52% | 93.2% | 93.2% |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 69% | 90.6% | 90.6% |
| 2019 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 100% | top 24% | 95.6% | 93.7% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-05-20 | The High on the Hog Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) 🏅 Winchester, TN | 20 / 29 (326.1712) | 14 (170.2628) | 27 (155.9084) | — | — |
| 2019-08-23 | Great Americana BBQ Festival 🏅 Franklin, TN | 8 / 39 (336.0000) | 4 (172.5944) | 13 (163.4056) | 1 (173.1316) | — |
| 2019-06-21 | Elkmont Lions Club Smokin Railroad St. BBQ Cook-off (BACKYARD ONLY) Elkmont, AL | 11 / 23 (331.9656) | 16 (163.4284) | 10 (168.5372) | 1 (176.5600) | — |
| 2019-05-11 | Dr.George Smith BBQ Brawl (COMPETITORS SERIES) unrated Murfreesboro, TN | 7 / 41 (511.3484) | 3 (176.5600) | 18 (162.7884) | — | — |
| 2019-04-19 | High on the Hog Festival 🏅 Winchester, TN | 4 / 39 (344.0000) | 1 (178.2972) | 8 (165.7028) | — | — |
| Scottsboro BBQ Cook Off Festival(BACKYARD ONLY) Scottsboro, AL | 12 / 23 (335.4172) | 10 (170.3316) | 17 (165.0856) | — | — |