The comeback
6 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 6 years, then back at Roast-N-Boast (2020-10-09).
- last seen 2014-10-17
- back 2020-10-09
SMOKEY BONZ BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1496
peak 1496 · rated over 3 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2014-10-17
latest 2021-08-27
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
1
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 57%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
67%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 169.12 · weakest Pork Ribs (152.15)
Road miles
0
mi across 3 mapped stops
Schedule strength
40%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1553)
Purse competed for
$7K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
630.78 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
479.94 / 360
2 Backyard contests · 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.
SMOKEY BONZ 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 121 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.
#3382 of the rated field
- Contests
- 12
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1496
0–1 in 1 shared contest (0% to SMOKEY BONZ BBQ)
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team SMOKEY BONZ BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head#3366 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#3363 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1496
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 7 years after SMOKEY BONZ BBQ did, first appearing in 2021.
⚔ Head-to-head#3369 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
Level with SMOKEY BONZ BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3342 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2016, 5 years before SMOKEY BONZ BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3365 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1496
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2015, 6 years before SMOKEY BONZ 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 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 166.2744 | 148.5712 | 158.08 | top 53% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 161.1544 | 140.5028 | 152.15 | top 61% |
| Pork | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 174.2628 | 164.0000 | 169.12 | top 32% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 152.5716 | 152.5716 | 152.57 | top 80% |
“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 37% |
| Medium (20–39) | 2 | 0 | top 66% |
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roast-N-Boast | 3 | 7 | 0 | top 57% | 2021-08-27 |
The story so far (18 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
6.9 yrs
2014-10-17 → 2021-08-27
Busiest season
2021
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 3 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
MS
3 of 3 contests
Contests visited
1
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
3 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 169.12 · weakest Pork Ribs (152.15)
Walk rate
67%
a top-10 call in 2 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
33%
1 of 3 contests
Master average
630.78
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Backyard average
479.94
out of 360 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
92
44–67 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
0
3 mapped stops
Schedule strength
1553
average field rating faced — tougher than 40% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$7,400
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
6 yrs
2014-10-17 → 2020-10-09
Power rating
1496
peak 1496 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2014
- First tracked contest Roast N' Boast
- Career-best overall score630.7772 Roast N' Boast
- 2020
- First call Roast-N-Boast
- First category win (Pork) Roast-N-Boast
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score463.3368 Roast-N-Boast
- Career-best single call (Pork)174.2628 Roast-N-Boast
- 2021
- First overall top-10 Roast-N-Boast
- Peak power rating (1496) Roast-N-Boast
- Most recent contest Roast-N-Boast
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +5.4 | Roast-N-Boast | 2021-08-27 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -8.9 | Roast N' Boast | 2014-10-17 |
| -0.4 | Roast-N-Boast | 2020-10-09 |
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 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 37% | 137.9% | 137.9% |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 100% | top 53% | 128.7% | 128.7% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 80% | 87.6% | 87.6% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-08-27 | Roast-N-Boast 🏅 Columbus, MS | 7 / 19 (496.5372) | 7 (166.2744) | 9 (161.1544) | 7 (169.1084) | — |
| 2020-10-09 | Roast-N-Boast 🏅 Columbus, MS | 19 / 36 (463.3368) | 18 (148.5712) | 21 (140.5028) | 1 (174.2628) | — |
| 2014-10-17 | Roast N' Boast Columbus, MS | 20 / 25 (630.7772) | 18 (159.4056) | 19 (154.8000) | 14 (164.0000) | 20 (152.5716) |