High-water mark
332.5488
career-best overall
92.4% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 332.5488 at Great Americana BBQ Festival — 92.4% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2019-08-23
High Lonsome Smokers
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1508
peak 1508 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
1
in the data
First seen
2019-08-23
latest 2019-08-23
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 1 contests
Avg finish
top 31%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 171.42 · weakest Chicken (162.86)
Purse competed for
$7K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
332.55 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 0 GCs
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.
High Lonsome Smokers 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 114 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.
#2901 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1515
No shared contest yet.
5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where High Lonsome Smokers's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head#2892 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1520
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 5 years after High Lonsome Smokers did, first appearing in 2024.
⚔ Head-to-head#2903 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1513
No shared contest yet.
Level with High Lonsome Smokers on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2906 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 50%
- Peak
- 1527
No shared contest yet.
6 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where High Lonsome Smokers's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head#2877 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where High Lonsome Smokers's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head#2879 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1520
No shared contest yet.
5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where High Lonsome Smokers's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.8572 | 162.8572 | 162.86 | top 38% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 169.6916 | 169.6916 | 169.69 | top 23% |
| Pork | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 171.4172 | 171.4172 | 171.42 | top 8% |
| 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 (13 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0 yrs
2019-08-23 → 2019-08-23
Busiest season
2019
1 contest
Cooks most in
TN
1 of 1 contests
Contests visited
1
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
1 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 171.42 · weakest Chicken (162.86)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 1 of 1 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 1 contests
Backyard average
332.55
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
72
49–22 across every shared overall standing
Purse competed for
$6,950
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Power rating
1508
peak 1508 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2019
- First tracked contest Great Americana BBQ Festival
- First call Great Americana BBQ Festival
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score332.5488 Great Americana BBQ Festival
- Career-best overall score332.5488 Great Americana BBQ Festival
- Career-best single call (Pork)171.4172 Great Americana BBQ Festival
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 31% | 92.4% | 92.4% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-08-23 | Great Americana BBQ Festival 🏅 Franklin, TN | 12 / 39 (332.5488) | 15 (162.8572) | 9 (169.6916) | 3 (171.4172) | — |