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Smoking & Toasting BBQ
Smoking & Toasting BBQ is a competition barbecue team with 6 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2025 and 2026. They have won 1 Grand Championship, at the Albany County Fair Smokin' BBQ Cook-Off (2026). They finished #484 in the 2026 Master Series Team of the Year standings.
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At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating 1525
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 41 invitational or side-series contest not counted
First seen Nov 5, 2025
latest Sep 11, 2026
Grand champs 1
0 reserve · wins it all 17% of the time
Overall top-10s 1
17% of 6 contests
Avg finish top 47%
overall standings
Best overall 699.9656 / 720
Walk rate 17%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency ±20.01
spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat Pork
avg 173.35 · weakest Chicken (166.36)
Road miles 2,430
across 6 mapped stops · furthest 631 mi
Schedule strength 39%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1551)
Purse competed for $182K
listed at 6 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships 1 🏅
won from 4 state-championship entries
Master avg 676.81 / 720
5 Master contests · 1 GC
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Storylines (6 found in their record)
Each card leads with the number behind the story, straight from their results.
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Against the odds
13-in-100
shot on pre-contest ratings
The ratings favoured the top seed the other 87 times in 100
Their Grand Championship at Albany County Fair Smokin' BBQ Cook-Off (Jul 24, 2026) came as the ratings underdog — roughly a 13-in-100 shot against the field's top-rated team, B-S BBQ OUTLAWS
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Giant slayer
32
teams beaten in one weekend
Took the Grand Championship over a 32-team field at Albany County Fair Smokin' BBQ Cook-Off .
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High-water mark
699.9656
career-best overall
97.2% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 699.9656 at Albany County Fair Smokin' BBQ Cook-Off — 97.2% of a perfect 720.
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State champions
They've taken 1 state championship from 4 entries at contests carrying the title.
4 state-championship entries
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A tough matchup
3–1
behind in the head-to-head
The Pitfather BBQ ahead in 75% of their meetings
The Pitfather BBQ
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The weak link
−7.0
points behind their best meat
Chicken is where the weekend gets away from them — it averages 6.99 points below their pork, and turns into a call 20% of the time against 20%.
Chicken avg 166.36 Pork avg 173.35 1 call in 5 entries
Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
Year Series Overall Chicken Ribs Pork Brisket
2026 ↗ Master
#484 (342 pts) #696 (212 pts) #725 (222 pts) #477 (387 pts) #649 (222 pts)
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Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to Smoking & Toasting BBQ, each with one reason worth a look.
Smoking & Toasting BBQ has 4 rated contests, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 88 rated teams sit within a point of it.
Meat Sweats BBQ
#2,375 of the rated field
1524
power rating
Contests 10
GCs 0
Top-10s 10%
Peak 1535
1–1 in 2 shared contests (50% to Smoking & Toasting BBQ)
2 contests in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Smoking & Toasting BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
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BIG O'S BBQ
#2,369 of the rated field
1524
power rating
Contests 19
GCs 0
Top-10s 26%
Peak 1550
1–0 in 1 shared contest (100% to Smoking & Toasting BBQ)
19 contests to 6: their number has had years to settle where Smoking & Toasting BBQ's is still finding its level.
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2 BROTHERS BBQ
#2,362 of the rated field
1525
power rating
Contests 8
GCs 0
Top-10s 13%
Peak 1525
Their last contest in the data was back in 2022, 4 years before Smoking & Toasting BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
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Smoke Dawg BBQ
#2,364 of the rated field
1524
power rating
Contests 5
GCs 0
Top-10s 20%
Peak 1524
They were already cooking in 2013, 12 years before Smoking & Toasting BBQ's first contest.
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SALT CREEK BAR-B-QUE
#2,353 of the rated field
1525
power rating
Contests 6
GCs 0
Top-10s 33%
Peak 1525
Level with Smoking & Toasting BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
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Good News BBQ
#2,373 of the rated field
1524
power rating
Contests 7
GCs 1
Top-10s 43%
Peak 1531
Their rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 7 contests, alongside a 43% overall top-10 rate.
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By meat
“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 field size and state
By contest size
Field Contests GCs Avg finish
Medium (20–39) 1 1 top 3% Large (40+) 4 0 top 57%
By state / province (where the contests were held)
Where Contests GCs Avg finish
TX 2 0 top 65% KS 2 0 top 50% WY 1 1 top 3%
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Contests a season
3
across 2 seasons in the data
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Most contests held in
KS
3 of 6 contests · 3 states in all
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Contests visited
5
a different one every time
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First title
Jul 24, 2026
Albany County Fair Smokin' BBQ Cook-Off
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Opponents faced
527
finished ahead 447 times, behind 262
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
Scores over time (% of a perfect score — tap a meat to add it)
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)
2026 3 1 1 1
33%
top 44%
97.2%
93.5%
2025 3 0 0 0
0%
top 50%
96.6%
94.7%
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Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
Date Event Overall Chicken Ribs Pork Brisket
Sep 11, 2026
Danny Dietz Memorial World Championship Cookoff 🏅 Waller, TX 61 / 75 (644.4228) 72 (150.2284) 51 (162.2516) 16 (173.1200) 54 (158.8228)
Jul 24, 2026
Albany County Fair Smokin' BBQ Cook-Off 🏅 Laramie, WY 1 / 32 (699.9656) 8 (174.8456) 7 (172.5600) 1 (178.8572) 7 (173.7028)
Apr 10, 2026
Cedar Fest BBQ Cook Off 🏅 Cedar Park, TX 20 / 41 (675.8624) 14 (169.6684) 15 (169.7028) 12 (171.9656) 28 (164.5256)
Nov 5, 2025
American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Sides Kansas City, KS —
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Nov 5, 2025
American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest 🏅 Kansas City, KS 45 / 401 (695.3716) 14 (178.8572) 36 (176.0116) 108 (174.2628) 235 (166.2400)
Nov 5, 2025
American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest unrated Kansas City, KS 140 / 158 (668.4112) 154 (158.2056) 69 (173.1200) 113 (168.5372) 99 (168.5484)
An unrated contest — an invitational, or a Competitor or Kosher Series board — is in the record but doesn’t move the power rating.
Career map (orange GC · green top-10 · grey the rest — tap a pin)
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