Giant slayer
31
teams beaten in one weekend
Took the Grand Championship over a 31-team field at Clayton BBQ Cook-off.
- 2019-07-12
Smoke It Like It's Hot
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1530
peak 1530 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2019-05-03
latest 2019-07-12
Grand champs
1
1 reserve
Category wins
1
3 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 8%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
67%
contests with a top-10 call
Top-10 streak
2
and counting
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 166.26 · weakest Pork Ribs (163.44)
Road miles
44
mi across 3 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$10K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
1 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
329.70 / 360
2 Backyard contests · 1 GC
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
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.
High-water mark
333.7028
career-best overall
92.7% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 333.7028 at Clayton BBQ Cook-off — 92.7% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2019-07-12
State champions
1
state championships won
They've taken 1 state championship from 1 entries at contests carrying the title.
- 1 state-championship entries
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.
Smoke It Like It's Hot 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 76 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.
#2212 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 67%
- Peak
- 1540
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 6 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#2221 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 14%
- Peak
- 1530
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2013, 6 years before Smoke It Like It's Hot's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#2220 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1530
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2014, 5 years before Smoke It Like It's Hot's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2219 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1536
No shared contest yet.
Level with Smoke It Like It's Hot on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2207 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1532
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2014, 5 years before Smoke It Like It's Hot's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2217 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 43%
- Peak
- 1530
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 7 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 172.5484 | 159.9656 | 166.26 | top 13% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 165.7256 | 161.1544 | 163.44 | top 11% |
| 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.
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 13% |
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 1 | top 3% |
The story so far (18 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0.2 yrs
2019-05-03 → 2019-07-12
Busiest season
2019
2 contests · 1 GC
Contests a season
1.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
CA
3 of 3 contests
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 2 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 166.26 · weakest Pork Ribs (163.44)
Walk rate
67%
a top-10 call in 2 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
67%
2 of 3 contests
Wins it all
33%
1 Grand Championship · 1 reserve
First title
2019-07-12
Clayton BBQ Cook-off
Best top-10 run
2
straight contests — and still running
Backyard average
329.70
out of 360 · 2 contests · 1 GC
Opponents faced
64
64–1 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
44
3 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$10,200
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
1
from 1 state-championship entries
Power rating
1530
peak 1530 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2018
- First tracked contest Elk Grove Western Festival and BBQ Championship
- 2019
- First call Elk Grove Western Festival and BBQ Championship (BACK YARD ONLY)
- First category win (Pork Ribs) Elk Grove Western Festival and BBQ Championship (BACK YARD ONLY)
- First overall top-10 Elk Grove Western Festival and BBQ Championship (BACK YARD ONLY)
- First overall podium Elk Grove Western Festival and BBQ Championship (BACK YARD ONLY)
- First Reserve Championship Elk Grove Western Festival and BBQ Championship (BACK YARD ONLY)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score325.6912 Elk Grove Western Festival and BBQ Championship (BACK YARD ONLY)
- First Grand Championship Clayton BBQ Cook-off
- First state championship Clayton BBQ Cook-off
- Biggest field won (31 teams) Clayton BBQ Cook-off
- Career-best overall score333.7028 Clayton BBQ Cook-off
- Career-best single call (Chicken)172.5484 Clayton BBQ Cook-off
- Most recent contest Clayton BBQ Cook-off
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 100% | top 8% | 92.7% | 91.6% |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-07-12 | Clayton BBQ Cook-off 🏅 Clayton, CA | 1 / 31 (333.7028) | 2 (172.5484) | 5 (161.1544) | — | — |
| 2019-05-03 | Elk Grove Western Festival and BBQ Championship (BACK YARD ONLY) Elk Grove, CA | 2 / 15 (325.6912) | 3 (159.9656) | 1 (165.7256) | — | — |
| 2018-05-04 | Elk Grove Western Festival and BBQ Championship Elk Grove, CA | — | — | — | — | — |