#4061 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1481
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headSavory Smoke
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1482
peak 1482 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2026-05-01
latest 2026-07-17
Best ToY finish
#345
Backyard 2026
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 89%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 160.32 · weakest Brisket (149.67)
Road miles
122
mi across 3 mapped stops · furthest 81 mi
Purse competed for
$12K
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
626.14 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
598.57 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 0 GCs
Master and Backyard overall scores sit on different scales (Master is 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. Still inside their first twelve months: see what a first season usually looks like.
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.
Savory Smoke 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 121 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.
#4065 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2023, 3 years before Savory Smoke's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#4058 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1501
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2014, 12 years before Savory Smoke's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#4046 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1482
No shared contest yet.
Level with Savory Smoke on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#4040 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1482
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2022, 4 years before Savory Smoke's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#4035 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1503
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 7 years before Savory Smoke'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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.2860 | 153.6228 | 160.32 | top 112% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.2284 | 147.3600 | 150.79 | top 136% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 150.2056 | 149.6684 | 149.94 | top 134% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 151.9544 | 147.3828 | 149.67 | top 135% |
“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 82% |
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 96% |
The story so far (15 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0.2 yrs
2026-05-01 → 2026-07-17
Busiest season
2026
3 contests
Cooks most in
IA
3 of 3 contests
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
3 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 160.32 · weakest Brisket (149.67)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 3 contests
Master average
626.14
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Backyard average
598.57
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
47
4–52 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
122
3 mapped stops · furthest 81 mi
Purse competed for
$11,900
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Power rating
1482
peak 1482 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2026
- First tracked contest SmokeHouse Barbeque Showdown (OPEN FORMAT) (REGISTRATION FULL)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score598.5712 SmokeHouse Barbeque Showdown (OPEN FORMAT) (REGISTRATION FULL)
- Career-best overall score626.1372 Shenandoah ShenDig
- Career-best single call (Chicken)170.2860 Shenandoah ShenDig
- Most recent contest Shenandoah ShenDig
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 89% | 166.3% | 126.6% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-17 | Shenandoah ShenDig 🏅 Shenandoah, IA | 27 / 28 (626.1372) | 17 (170.2860) | 27 (154.2284) | 27 (149.6684) | 28 (151.9544) |
| 2026-07-17 | Shenandoah ShenDig (ONE MEAT CHICKEN) Shenandoah, IA | — | 17 (157.0512) | — | — | — |
| 2026-05-01 | SmokeHouse Barbeque Showdown (OPEN FORMAT) (REGISTRATION FULL) 🏅 Cambridge, IA | 14 / 17 (598.5712) | 30 (153.6228) | 30 (147.3600) | 29 (150.2056) | 29 (147.3828) |
Career map (orange GC · green top-10 · grey the rest — tap a pin)
Team of the Year standings (rank per category by season — year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 ↗ | Backyard | #345 (56 pts) | #346 (56 pts) | #345 (56 pts) | — | — |
| 2026 ↗ | Master | #1204 (53 pts) | #705 (175 pts) | #1285 (53 pts) | #1203 (53 pts) | #1199 (53 pts) |