High-water mark
333.1316
career-best overall
92.5% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 333.1316 at Anchor City Cook Off — 92.5% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2021-10-08
Smoke your Ace
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1515
peak 1515 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2021-10-08
latest 2021-10-08
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 30%
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 167.70 · weakest Chicken (158.57)
Purse competed for
$6K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
326.27 / 360
2 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Storylines (2 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.
Announced themselves early
4th
at their very first contest
Finished 4 of 9 at their very first tracked contest, Bowling Green Backyard Event (BACKYARD ONLY) ().
- 9-team field
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.
Smoke your Ace 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 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.
#2637 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1515
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2648 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1515
No shared contest yet.
Level with Smoke your Ace on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2642 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2021.
⚔ Head-to-head#2646 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1518
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2645 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1515
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2014, 7 years before Smoke your Ace's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2635 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1519
No shared contest yet.
6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Smoke your Ace'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 | 160.5716 | 156.5600 | 158.57 | top 55% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 172.5600 | 162.8456 | 167.70 | top 27% |
| 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.
The story so far (15 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0 yrs
2021-10-08 → 2021-10-08
Busiest season
—
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
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 167.70 · weakest Chicken (158.57)
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
326.27
out of 360 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
34
28–7 across every shared overall standing
Purse competed for
$5,850
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Power rating
1515
peak 1515 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- First tracked contest Bowling Green Backyard Event (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First call Bowling Green Backyard Event (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall top-10 Bowling Green Backyard Event (BACKYARD ONLY)
- 2021
- First overall podium Anchor City Cook Off
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score333.1316 Anchor City Cook Off
- Career-best overall score333.1316 Anchor City Cook Off
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)172.5600 Anchor City Cook Off
- Most recent contest Anchor City Cook Off
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 44% | 88.7% | 88.7% |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 16% | 92.5% | 92.5% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-10-08 | Anchor City Cook Off 🏅 Centralia, MO | 3 / 19 (333.1316) | 6 (160.5716) | 2 (172.5600) | — | — |
| Bowling Green Backyard Event (BACKYARD ONLY) Bowling Green, MO | 4 / 9 (319.4056) | 7 (156.5600) | 4 (162.8456) | — | — |