This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
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.
Smoke Rings has 1 rated contest — 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 151 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.
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Smoke Rings has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Smoke Rings's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Smoke Rings on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2014, 7 years before Smoke Rings's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Smoke Rings's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Smoke Rings's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 142.2400 | 142.2400 | 142.24 | top 128% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 147.3716 | 147.3716 | 147.37 | top 124% |
| 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.
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 128% | 80.4% | 80.4% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-10-15 | Maryland State BBQ Bash 🏅 Belair, MD | 32 / 25 (289.6116) | 32 (142.2400) | 31 (147.3716) | — | — |