The comeback
5.9 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 5.9 years, then back at Jimbo's Annual BBQ Competition (2022-04-08).
- last seen 2016-05-14
- back 2022-04-08
Smokehouse BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1504
peak 1511 · rated over 3 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2015-06-19
latest 2022-04-08
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 45%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
67%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 160.83 · weakest Pork Ribs (156.36)
Road miles
2,195
mi across 3 mapped stops · furthest 2050 mi
Schedule strength
15%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1522)
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Master avg
642.24 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
147.37 / 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.
Storylines (1 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.
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.
Smokehouse BBQ has 3 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 115 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.
#3071 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1521
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#3055 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1522
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 4 years before Smokehouse BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3064 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
Level with Smokehouse BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3042 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1511
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 5 years before Smokehouse BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3046 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 2014, 8 years before Smokehouse BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3057 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 4 years before Smokehouse BBQ'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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.8456 | 157.1544 | 160.00 | top 63% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 162.8572 | 147.3716 | 156.36 | top 48% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 162.7884 | 158.8688 | 160.83 | top 35% |
| Brisket | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 165.7144 | 155.4056 | 160.56 | top 30% |
“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 (17 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
6.8 yrs
2015-06-19 → 2022-04-08
Busiest season
2022
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 3 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
NC
1 of 3 contests
Contests visited
3
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
3 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 160.83 · weakest Pork Ribs (156.36)
Walk rate
67%
a top-10 call in 2 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
33%
1 of 3 contests
Master average
642.24
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Backyard average
147.37
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
110
54–65 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
2,195
3 mapped stops · furthest 2,050 mi
Schedule strength
1522
average field rating faced — tougher than 15% of rated contests
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
5.9 yrs
2016-05-14 → 2022-04-08
Power rating
1504
peak 1511 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2015
- First tracked contest Porkapalooza BBQ Festival
- First call Porkapalooza BBQ Festival
- First overall top-10 Porkapalooza BBQ Festival
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score650.2860 Porkapalooza BBQ Festival
- Career-best overall score650.2860 Porkapalooza BBQ Festival
- Career-best single call (Brisket)165.7144 Porkapalooza BBQ Festival
- 2016
- Peak power rating (1511) Smokin Q at Lynnwood Ranch
- 2022
- Most recent contest Jimbo's Annual BBQ Competition
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +10.8 | Porkapalooza BBQ Festival | 2015-06-19 |
| +0.1 | Smokin Q at Lynnwood Ranch | 2016-05-14 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -7.1 | Jimbo's Annual BBQ Competition | 2022-04-08 |
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 | 0% | top 64% | 40.9% | 40.9% |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 50% | 88.1% | 88.1% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 20% | 90.3% | 90.3% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-04-08 | Jimbo's Annual BBQ Competition 🏅 Stem, NC | 23 / 36 (147.3716) | — | 22 (147.3716) | — | — |
| 2016-05-14 | Smokin Q at Lynnwood Ranch Aldersyde, Alberta Canada, T0L1T0 | 17 / 34 (634.1940) | 26 (157.1544) | 20 (158.8456) | 8 (162.7884) | 16 (155.4056) |
| 2015-06-19 | Porkapalooza BBQ Festival Edmonton Alberta, T6E 5K1 | 6 / 30 (650.2860) | 15 (162.8456) | 7 (162.8572) | 14 (158.8688) | 4 (165.7144) |