High-water mark
672.4800
career-best overall
93.4% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 672.4800 at Outdoor Cooking BBQ Championship — 93.4% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2022-02-05
Dances With Smoke
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1518
peak 1518 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2019-05-25
latest 2022-02-05
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 27%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Top-10 streak
2
and counting
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 172.55 · weakest Chicken (163.98)
Road miles
278
mi across 2 mapped stops · furthest 278 mi
Purse competed for
$19K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
672.46 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs
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.
Dances With 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 85 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.
#2523 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1526
No shared contest yet.
6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Dances With Smoke's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head#2524 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1519
No shared contest yet.
Level with Dances With Smoke on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2526 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1519
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 4 years before Dances With Smoke's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2529 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1532
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2014, 5 years before Dances With Smoke's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#2522 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1524
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2015, 7 years before Dances With Smoke's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2542 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1518
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2015, 7 years before Dances With 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 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 168.5600 | 159.3944 | 163.98 | top 57% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 172.0000 | 167.3712 | 169.69 | top 26% |
| Pork | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 173.1200 | 171.9772 | 172.55 | top 10% |
| Brisket | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 172.5484 | 159.9428 | 166.25 | top 40% |
“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
2.7 yrs
2019-05-25 → 2022-02-05
Busiest season
2022
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
WA
1 of 2 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 172.55 · weakest Chicken (163.98)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 2 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
100%
2 of 2 contests
Best top-10 run
2
straight contests — and still running
Master average
672.46
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
53
41–13 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
278
2 mapped stops · furthest 278 mi
Purse competed for
$18,500
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
2.7 yrs
2019-05-25 → 2022-02-05
Power rating
1518
peak 1518 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2019
- First tracked contest BBQ, Blues & Brews on the Bay
- First call BBQ, Blues & Brews on the Bay
- First overall top-10 BBQ, Blues & Brews on the Bay
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score672.4340 BBQ, Blues & Brews on the Bay
- Career-best single call (Pork)173.1200 BBQ, Blues & Brews on the Bay
- 2022
- Career-best overall score672.4800 Outdoor Cooking BBQ Championship
- Most recent contest Outdoor Cooking BBQ Championship
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 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 27% | 93.4% | 93.4% |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 26% | 93.4% | 93.4% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-02-05 | Outdoor Cooking BBQ Championship 🏅 Puyallup, WA | 6 / 22 (672.4800) | 10 (168.5600) | 5 (172.0000) | 2 (171.9772) | 13 (159.9428) |
| 2019-05-25 | BBQ, Blues & Brews on the Bay 🏅 North Bend, OR | 9 / 34 (672.4340) | 23 (159.3944) | 10 (167.3712) | 4 (173.1200) | 7 (172.5484) |