Announced themselves early
5th
at their very first contest
Finished 5 of 12 at their very first tracked contest, Mozingo Lake BBQ (2021-09-03).
- 2021-09-03
- 12-team field
LET THERE BE SMOKE BBQ
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
2021-09-03
latest 2021-10-29
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 28%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Top-10 streak
2
and counting
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 163.39 · weakest Chicken (150.50)
Road miles
100
mi across 2 mapped stops · furthest 50 mi
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
313.90 / 360
2 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
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.
LET THERE BE SMOKE BBQ 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.
#2561 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1518
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2556 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1526
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2014, 7 years before LET THERE BE SMOKE BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#2557 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1520
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 3 years before LET THERE BE SMOKE BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2558 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1518
No shared contest yet.
Level with LET THERE BE SMOKE BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ 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, 6 years before LET THERE BE SMOKE BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2541 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1519
No shared contest yet.
6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where LET THERE BE SMOKE BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 155.3716 | 145.6344 | 150.50 | top 31% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 163.9660 | 162.8228 | 163.39 | top 26% |
| Pork | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
| 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.
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 42% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 15% |
The story so far (14 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0.2 yrs
2021-09-03 → 2021-10-29
Busiest season
2021
2 contests
Cooks most in
MO
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 2 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 163.39 · weakest Chicken (150.50)
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
Backyard average
313.90
out of 360 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
60
48–18 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
100
2 mapped stops · furthest 50 mi
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Power rating
1518
peak 1518 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2021
- First tracked contest Mozingo Lake BBQ
- First call Mozingo Lake BBQ
- First overall top-10 Mozingo Lake BBQ
- Career-best overall score319.3376 Boo-B-Que - Day 1
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)163.9660 Boo-B-Que - Day 1
- Most recent contest Boo-B-Que - Day 1
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 100% | top 28% | 88.7% | 87.2% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-10-29 | Boo-B-Que - Day 1 🏅 Unity Village, MO | 6 / 41 (319.3376) | 8 (155.3716) | 4 (163.9660) | — | — |
| 2021-09-03 | Mozingo Lake BBQ 🏅 Maryville, MO | 5 / 12 (308.4572) | 5 (145.6344) | 5 (162.8228) | — | — |