#3890 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1485
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headDown to Smoke
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1485
peak 1485 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2016-06-25
latest 2020-10-17
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 89%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 162.26 · weakest Pork (148.79)
Road miles
835
mi across 2 mapped stops · furthest 835 mi
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Master avg
628.14 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs
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.
Down to Smoke 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 149 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.
#3911 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 8 years after Down to Smoke did, first appearing in 2024.
⚔ Head-to-head#3902 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1485
No shared contest yet.
Level with Down to Smoke on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3888 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1485
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3916 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1485
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3932 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1509
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.9772 | 156.5372 | 162.26 | top 84% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.5372 | 157.6800 | 159.11 | top 83% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 151.9312 | 145.6572 | 148.79 | top 94% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.8228 | 157.1316 | 157.98 | top 81% |
“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
4.3 yrs
2016-06-25 → 2020-10-17
Busiest season
2020
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
MO
1 of 2 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 162.26 · weakest Pork (148.79)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 2 contests
Master average
628.14
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
71
8–63 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
835
2 mapped stops · furthest 835 mi
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
4.3 yrs
2016-06-25 → 2020-10-17
Power rating
1485
peak 1485 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2016
- First tracked contest Giant National Capital Barbecue Battle
- 2020
- Career-best overall score639.2684 Columbia Elks Lodge # 594 BBQ Contest
- Career-best single call (Chicken)167.9772 Columbia Elks Lodge # 594 BBQ Contest
- Most recent contest Columbia Elks Lodge # 594 BBQ Contest
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 97% | 88.8% | 88.8% |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 80% | 85.7% | 85.7% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-10-17 | Columbia Elks Lodge # 594 BBQ Contest 🏅 Columbia, MO | 37 / 38 (639.2684) | 32 (167.9772) | 35 (160.5372) | 38 (151.9312) | 32 (158.8228) |
| 2016-06-25 | Giant National Capital Barbecue Battle Washington, DC | 28 / 35 (617.0060) | 29 (156.5372) | 26 (157.6800) | 31 (145.6572) | 27 (157.1316) |