Happy hunting ground
Top 13%
average finish here
Smoke in the Grove is their spot: an average finish in the top 13% across 2 visits.
- 2 visits
- best finish 4th
- average top 13%
VFW Post 5265
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1522
peak 1522 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2019-07-26
latest 2021-07-30
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 13%
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 143.44
Road miles
0
mi across 2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$23K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Storylines (3 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 53 at their very first tracked contest, Smoke in the Grove (2019-07-26).
- 2019-07-26
- 53-team field
Looking over their shoulder
2×
one call behind them
Uncle Pig's Barbeque Pit has landed one call behind them 2 times.
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.
VFW Post 5265 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 92 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.
#2451 of the rated field
- Contests
- 8
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1522
No shared contest yet.
8 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where VFW Post 5265's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head#2433 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 80%
- Peak
- 1522
No shared contest yet.
Level with VFW Post 5265 on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2436 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 50%
- Peak
- 1522
No shared contest yet.
Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2019.
⚔ Head-to-head#2445 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1522
No shared contest yet.
6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where VFW Post 5265's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head#2444 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1532
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 4 years before VFW Post 5265's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2439 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1522
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2014, 7 years before VFW Post 5265'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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 160.6172 | 126.2628 | 143.44 | top 13% |
| 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.
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smoke in the Grove | 2 | 4 | 0 | top 13% | 2021-07-30 |
The story so far (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
2 yrs
2019-07-26 → 2021-07-30
Busiest season
2021
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
PA
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
1
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
2 entries · 0 wins · 2 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 143.44
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
Opponents faced
148
141–36 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
0
2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$23,300
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
2 yrs
2019-07-26 → 2021-07-30
Power rating
1522
peak 1522 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2019
- First tracked contest Smoke in the Grove
- First call Smoke in the Grove
- First overall top-10 Smoke in the Grove
- Career-best overall score327.4628 Smoke in the Grove
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)160.6172 Smoke in the Grove
- 2021
- Most recent contest Smoke in the Grove
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 19% | — | — |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 8% | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-07-30 | Smoke in the Grove 🏅 Spring Grove, PA | 10 / 54 (281.0856) | — | 10 (126.2628) | — | — |
| 2019-07-26 | Smoke in the Grove 🏅 Spring Grove, PA | 4 / 53 (327.4628) | — | 4 (160.6172) | — | — |