DONE RIGHT SMOKIN

DONE RIGHT SMOKIN is a competition barbecue team with 23 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2017 and 2026. Their best overall finish is 2nd of 39 at the Plant City Pig Jam (2019), and they have finished Reserve Grand Champion twice. They are ranked #2646 of 6,491 teams in the KCBS power rankings. Also listed in KCBS results as “Done Right Smokin'”.

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At a glance (the record in numbers)

Power ranking

#2,646

of 6,491 rated · rankings

Rating

1515

peak 1544 · rated over 20 contests2 invitational or side-series contests not counted

Contests

in the data

First seen

May 26, 2017

latest Oct 9, 2026 · 9.4 years on the trail

Best ToY finish

#532

Master 2023 · every season

Grand champs

2 reserve

Category wins

8 podiums

Overall top-10s

22% of 23 contests

Best top-10 run

straight overall top-10s

Avg finish

top 48%

overall standings

Best overall

687.9544 / 720

Master · Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitational Barbecue (Competitor's Series) (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY)

Perfect 180s

Current form

683.67 ▲

last 5 Master vs avg 669.73 (+13.94)

Walk rate

61%

contests with a top-10 call

Best single call

179.4400

Pork Ribs · Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitational Barbecue (Competitor's Series) (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY)

Consistency

±14.14

spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)

Strongest meat

Pork Ribs

avg 168.67 · weakest Brisket (163.95)

Road miles

4,572

across 22 mapped stops · furthest 550 mi

Schedule strength

47%

of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1561)

Purse competed for

$242K

listed at 15 contests — purses, not winnings

State championships

0 🏅

won from 18 state-championship entries

Master avg

669.73 / 720

14 Master contests · 0 GCs

Backyard avg

342.26 / 360

1 Backyard contest · 0 GCs

Backyard (3-meat) avg

495.44 / 540

4 Backyard (3-meat) contests · 0 GCs

Backyard (4-meat) avg

659.56 / 720

2 Backyard (4-meat) contests · 0 GCs

These overall scores sit on different scales (Master out of 720, Backyard out of 360, Backyard (3-meat) out of 540, Backyard (4-meat) out of 720), so they're kept separate — averaging them together would be misleading.

This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.

Storylines (13 found in their record)

Each card leads with the number behind the story, straight from their results.

The heartbreaker

0.0116 points from the title

Came within 0.0116 points of the Grand Championship at Osceola County Sheriff's Office Smoke on the Range BBQ Invitational (BACKYARD ONLY) ().

They almost always walk

61% of contests with a top-10 call

A call in 14 of 23 contests

A top-10 category call in 61% of their 23 contests — they get to the stage more often than not.

High-water mark

687.9544 career-best overall

95.5% of a perfect 720

Their best day on record: 687.9544 at Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitational Barbecue (Competitor's Series) (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) — 95.5% of a perfect 720.

Master
Oct 9, 2026

The one to beat

2× one call ahead of them

KEEPIN IT SMOKIN BBQ has finished one call ahead of DONE RIGHT SMOKIN 2 times — their closest competition in the data.

A tough matchup

8–1 behind in the head-to-head

Dogpatch Q ahead in 89% of their meetings

Dogpatch Q has come out ahead in 8 of their 9 shared contests.

The weak link

−4.7 points behind their best meat

Brisket is where the weekend gets away from them — it averages 4.72 points below their pork ribs, and turns into a call 13% of the time against 36%.

Brisket avg 163.95
Pork Ribs avg 168.67
2 calls in 16 entries

A strong matchup

8–3 ahead in the head-to-head

Ahead in 73% of their meetings

They've finished ahead of K & E's Little Smokers in 8 of their 11 shared contests.

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The comeback

1.9 yrs off the trail, then back

Off the trail for 1.9 years, then back at Fire it up Frostproof! (Apr 12, 2019).

last seen May 26, 2017
back Apr 12, 2019

Pork Ribs nemesis

7 of 9 shared pork ribs entries lost

Dogpatch Q ahead 78% of the time

Even in their strongest meat, Dogpatch Q has out-cooked them in 7 of 9 shared pork ribs entries.

Announced themselves early

2nd at their very first contest

Finished 2 of 10 at their very first tracked contest, Osceola County Sheriff's Office Smoke on the Range BBQ Invitational (BACKYARD ONLY) ().

10-team field

A November team

Top 32% average finish in November

Something about November: average finish in the top 32% across 5 contests, versus top 48% the rest of the year.

5 November contests
top 48% the rest of the year

The long haul

4,572 road miles between contests

Contest to contest, they've covered roughly 4,572 miles across 22 mapped stops — the longest single trip being 550 miles to Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitational Barbecue (Competitor's Series) (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY).

22 mapped stops
furthest 550 mi

The metronome

±2.08% swing around their own average

Their overall lands within ±2.08% of a perfect score of their own average — whatever the field, you know roughly what they'll turn in.

averages 92.6% of a perfect score
23 contests

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	#627 (235 pts)	#595 (300 pts)	#605 (325 pts)	#847 (125 pts)	#672 (220 pts)
2025 ↗	Master	#869 (121 pts)	#1104 (91 pts)	#1017 (121 pts)	#915 (126 pts)	#972 (116 pts)
2024 ↗	Master	#950 (115 pts)	#1114 (95 pts)	#1126 (110 pts)	#699 (235 pts)	#1204 (60 pts)
2023 ↗	Master	#532 (336 pts)	#473 (461 pts)	#559 (396 pts)	#580 (326 pts)	#602 (291 pts)
2022 ↗	Master	#745 (224 pts)	#753 (239 pts)	#874 (194 pts)	#710 (254 pts)	#724 (244 pts)
2021 ↗	Backyard	—	#136 (205 pts)	#127 (200 pts)	—	—
2020 ↗	Backyard	—	#34 (309 pts)	#32 (299 pts)	—	—
2017 ↗	Master	#1971 (102 pts)	#1263 (247 pts)	#2085 (97 pts)	#2089 (92 pts)	#2103 (87 pts)

Overall rank by season

Teams like this (closest power rating)

The teams rated closest to DONE RIGHT SMOKIN, each with one reason worth a look.

80 rated teams sit within a point of this rating, so a place on this list means the numbers match — no more than that.

Rum Runners BBQ

#2,639 of the rated field

1515 power rating

Contests: 24
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 13%
Peak: 1515

2–2 in 4 shared contests (50% to DONE RIGHT SMOKIN)

These two have cooked 4 of the same contests — honours even — so there's a record behind this pairing and not just a matching number.

rated over 19 contests
last seen Sep 30, 2026

⚔ Head-to-head

Evans Ranch BBQ

#2,649 of the rated field

1515 power rating

Contests: 9
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 22%
Peak: 1515

1–1 in 2 shared contests (50% to DONE RIGHT SMOKIN)

This is the highest they've ever been rated, 9 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.

rated over 9 contests
last seen Nov 22, 2024

⚔ Head-to-head

Uncle G's BBQ

#2,642 of the rated field

1515 power rating

Contests: 7
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 29%
Peak: 1515

1–0 in 1 shared contest (100% to DONE RIGHT SMOKIN)

Fewer contests behind them than DONE RIGHT SMOKIN has cooked, 7 to 23, which makes theirs the less settled rating of the two.

rated over 7 contests
last seen Jan 22, 2026

⚔ Head-to-head

Lingon & Dill

#2,648 of the rated field

1515 power rating

Contests: 6
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 50%
Peak: 1515

1–0 in 1 shared contest (100% to DONE RIGHT SMOKIN)

They turned up 6 years after DONE RIGHT SMOKIN did, first appearing in 2023.

rated over 5 contests
last seen Oct 9, 2026

⚔ Head-to-head

Chucho Q

#2,647 of the rated field

1515 power rating

Contests: 21
GCs: 1
Top-10s: 14%
Peak: 1527

Their rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 21 contests, alongside a 14% overall top-10 rate.

rated over 20 contests
last seen Jul 24, 2026

⚔ Compare careers

JACKS PIT SHACK

#2,651 of the rated field

1515 power rating

Contests: 20
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 5%
Peak: 1522

Their last contest in the data was back in 2022, 4 years before DONE RIGHT SMOKIN's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.

rated over 20 contests

⚔ Compare careers

Familiar foes (most-met opponents in overall standings — one meeting per contest)

Opponent	Meetings	Ahead	Behind	Win rate
K & E's Little Smokers	11	8	3	73%	⚔ compare
HOLD YOUR HORSES BBQ	10	2	8	20%	⚔ compare
Smokin' Ain't EZ	9	4	5	44%	⚔ compare
Going Yard BBQ	9	4	5	44%	⚔ compare
Accutech BBQ	9	3	6	33%	⚔ compare
Dogpatch Q	9	1	8	11%	⚔ compare
GOOD GOOGLY GOO BBQ	8	3	5	38%	⚔ compare
ELITE BBQ SMOKERS	8	2	6	25%	⚔ compare
Poppa Pig	8	2	6	25%	⚔ compare
HOT WACHULA'S	8	2	6	25%	⚔ compare
Kings BBQ Team	8	1	7	13%	⚔ compare
ROOTERS-N-TOOTERS TN	8	1	7	13%	⚔ compare
Cooters N Smoke	7	3	4	43%	⚔ compare
Bearded Monkeys Twisted Q	7	2	5	29%	⚔ compare
Slapulator BBQ	7	2	5	29%	⚔ compare

By meat

Category	Entries	Calls	Wins	Podiums	Best	Worst	Average	Avg finish
Chicken	22	8	0	3	176.5600	154.2172	167.76	top 43%
Pork Ribs	22	8	0	2	179.4400	157.1088	168.67	top 42%
Pork	20	5	0	2	177.7028	158.8228	166.74	top 50%
Brisket	16	2	1	1	171.9772	154.2056	163.95	top 59%

“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	Avg finish
Small (<20 teams)	2	top 29%
Medium (20–39)	12	top 46%
Large (40+)	8	top 54%

By state / province (where the contests were held)

Where	Contests	Avg finish
FL	13	top 41%
AL	4	top 72%
GA	4	top 44%
TN	1	top 46%

Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)

Contest	Visits	Best	Avg finish	Last visit
Plant City Pig Jam	4	2	top 37%	Nov 21, 2025
Poosa Q	2	61	top 91%	Oct 5, 2023
Southern Sunshine BBQ Fest	2	15	top 62%	Jan 13, 2023
Fire it up Frostproof!	2	3	top 37%	Mar 6, 2020

More numbers

Busiest season 2020 5 contests

Contests a season 2.3 across 10 seasons in the data

Most contests held in FL 14 of 23 contests · 4 states in all

Contests visited 16 4 of them more than once

Opponents faced 735 finished ahead 578 times, behind 706

Longest layoff 1.9 yrs May 26, 2017 → Apr 12, 2019

Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)

20263 milestones

Oct 9 Career-best overall score687.9544 Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitational Barbecue (Competitor's Series) (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY)
Oct 9 Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)179.4400 Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitational Barbecue (Competitor's Series) (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY)
Oct 9 Most recent contest Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitational Barbecue (Competitor's Series) (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY)

20211 milestone

Mar 5 Peak power rating (1544) Sip & Swine BBQ Festival

20201 milestone

Nov 20 10th tracked contest Georgia BBQ Championship Throwdown

20191 milestone

Nov 22 First category win (Brisket) Plant City Pig Jam

—6 milestones

First tracked contest Osceola County Sheriff's Office Smoke on the Range BBQ Invitational (BACKYARD ONLY)
First call Osceola County Sheriff's Office Smoke on the Range BBQ Invitational (BACKYARD ONLY)
First overall top-10 Osceola County Sheriff's Office Smoke on the Range BBQ Invitational (BACKYARD ONLY)
First overall podium Osceola County Sheriff's Office Smoke on the Range BBQ Invitational (BACKYARD ONLY)
First Reserve Championship Osceola County Sheriff's Office Smoke on the Range BBQ Invitational (BACKYARD ONLY)
First overall past 90% of a perfect score340.0228 Osceola County Sheriff's Office Smoke on the Range BBQ Invitational (BACKYARD ONLY)

Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)

📈 Biggest rating jumps

Swing	Contest	Date
+14.2	Plant City Pig Jam	Nov 22, 2019
+13.3	Georgia BBQ Championship Throwdown	Nov 20, 2020
+13.3	Fire it up Frostproof!	Apr 12, 2019
+6.5	Bonifay All American Smoker Competition	Oct 2, 2020
+4.9	8th Annual Jimmy Jam BBQ Slam & Car Show	Jan 4, 2024

📉 Toughest weekends

Swing	Contest	Date
-14.1	Poosa Q	May 5, 2022
-10	Poosa Q	Oct 5, 2023
-9.5	Swine At the Shrine	Aug 5, 2022
-4.9	Southern Sunshine BBQ Fest	Jan 7, 2022
-3.8	Southern Sunshine BBQ Fest	Jan 13, 2023

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	Top-10s	Category wins	Walk rate	Avg finish	Best overall (% of perfect)	Avg overall (% of perfect)
—	1	1	0	100%	top 20%	94.5%	94.5%
2026	2	0	0	100%	top 41%	95.5%	95.3%
2025	1	0	0	100%	top 45%	94.7%	94.7%
2024	2	0	0	100%	top 37%	95.4%	94.8%
2023	3	0	0	33%	top 68%	92.9%	92.2%
2022	4	0	0	25%	top 74%	94.2%	92%
2021	1	0	0	0%	top 27%	91.5%	91.5%
2020	5	2	0	60%	top 44%	95.1%	92.5%
2019	2	2	1	100%	top 9%	90.9%	89.4%
2017	2	0	0	50%	top 64%	90.9%	90.9%

Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)

Date	Event	Overall	Chicken	Ribs	Pork	Brisket
Oct 9, 2026	Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitational Barbecue (Competitor's Series) (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) unrated Lynchburg, TN	46 / 99 (687.9544)	40 (172.5600)	4 (179.4400)	83 (165.6916)	64 (170.2628)
Mar 20, 2026	Torry Island BBQ Showdown 🏅 Belle Glade, FL	12 / 34 (683.9200)	11 (173.1200)	7 (177.7144)	23 (162.2628)	11 (170.8228)
Nov 21, 2025	Plant City Pig Jam 🏅 Plant City, FL	14 / 31 (681.5768)	6 (176.5600)	7 (174.2628)	25 (165.6684)	18 (165.0856)
Nov 22, 2024	Plant City Pig Jam 🏅 Plant City, FL	11 / 26 (678.1716)	17 (167.3828)	11 (168.5372)	10 (173.7028)	12 (168.5488)
Jan 4, 2024	8th Annual Jimmy Jam BBQ Slam & Car Show 🏅 Elkton, FL	14 / 43 (686.7312)	18 (171.9656)	15 (174.2628)	3 (177.7028)	31 (162.8000)
Oct 5, 2023	Poosa Q 🏅 Montgomery, AL	61 / 73 (657.5200)	73 (154.2172)	28 (170.8344)	44 (167.3828)	50 (165.0856)
Apr 7, 2023	Smoke on the Falls 🏅 Gadsden, AL	19 / 39 (668.9828)	4 (175.4056)	18 (167.3944)	28 (163.3828)	27 (162.8000)
Jan 13, 2023	Southern Sunshine BBQ Fest 🏅 Lake Wales, FL	19 / 26 (664.4348)	17 (168.5372)	12 (169.6916)	18 (165.6916)	20 (160.5144)
Nov 18, 2022	Plant City Pig Jam 🏅 Plant City, FL	14 / 25 (675.8628)	15 (169.6800)	10 (170.2628)	11 (169.6800)	16 (166.2400)
Aug 5, 2022	Swine At the Shrine 🏅 Savannah, GA	43 / 49 (659.2344)	23 (170.8344)	46 (160.5028)	20 (171.9772)	48 (155.9200)
May 5, 2022	Poosa Q 🏅 Montgomery, AL	71 / 72 (636.9368)	65 (159.9428)	54 (163.9656)	69 (158.8228)	70 (154.2056)
Jan 7, 2022	Southern Sunshine BBQ Fest 🏅 Lake Wales, FL	15 / 29 (678.1368)	14 (170.8228)	21 (168.5256)	14 (167.3712)	11 (171.4172)
Mar 5, 2021	Sip & Swine BBQ Festival 🏅 Lawrenceville, GA	22 / 81 (494.1256)	25 (162.7884)	21 (163.9544)	13 (167.3828)	—
Nov 20, 2020	Georgia BBQ Championship Throwdown 🏅 Cumming, GA	5 / 40 (506.7428)	8 (169.6800)	11 (166.2400)	4 (170.8228)	—
Oct 2, 2020	Bonifay All American Smoker Competition 🏅 Bonifay, FL	7 / 18 (342.2628)	7 (169.1200)	8 (173.1428)	—	—
Aug 7, 2020	Smoke in the Park (BACKYARD ONLY) Glencoe, AL	12 / 21 (489.5776)	16 (161.6688)	13 (165.0972)	11 (162.8116)	—
Jul 31, 2020	Hawgin On Lanier 🏅 Cumming, GA	26 / 55 (491.3144)	22 (165.6800)	30 (157.1088)	9 (168.5256)	—
Mar 6, 2020	Fire it up Frostproof! 🏅 Frostproof, FL	20 / 32 (662.6856)	20 (165.0856)	14 (169.6800)	23 (166.2400)	19 (161.6800)
Nov 22, 2019	Plant City Pig Jam 🏅 Plant City, FL	2 / 39 (158.3544)	4 (165.6800)	9 (165.0972)	15 (162.2400)	1 (171.9772)
Apr 12, 2019	Fire it up Frostproof! 🏅 Frostproof, FL	3 / 25 (654.1256)	2 (161.6800)	2 (167.9772)	3 (167.9656)	5 (156.5028)
May 26, 2017	Old Town Barbecue Throwdown Kissimmee, FL	14 / 22 (654.1372)	2 (174.2744)	15 (161.1200)	16 (159.3828)	17 (159.3600)
Jan 27, 2017	Lakeland Pig Festival Lakeland, FL	—	—	—	—	—
—	Osceola County Sheriff's Office Smoke on the Range BBQ Invitational (BACKYARD ONLY) unrated St. Cloud, FL	2 / 10 (340.0228)	3 (164.0228)	2 (176)	—	—

An unrated contest — an invitational, or a Competitor or Kosher Series board — is in the record but doesn’t move the power rating.

DONE RIGHT SMOKIN

At a glance (the record in numbers)

Power ranking

Rating

Contests

First seen

Best ToY finish

Grand champs

Category wins

Overall top-10s

Best top-10 run

Avg finish

Best overall

Perfect 180s

Current form

Walk rate

Best single call

Consistency

Strongest meat

Road miles

Schedule strength

Purse competed for

State championships

Master avg

Backyard avg

Backyard (3-meat) avg

Backyard (4-meat) avg

Storylines (13 found in their record)

The heartbreaker

They almost always walk

High-water mark

The one to beat

A tough matchup

The weak link

A strong matchup

The comeback

Pork Ribs nemesis

Announced themselves early

A November team

The long haul

The metronome

Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)

Overall rank by season

Teams like this (closest power rating)

Familiar foes (most-met opponents in overall standings — one meeting per contest)

By meat

By field size and state

By contest size

By state / province (where the contests were held)

Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)

More numbers

Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)

Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)

📈 Biggest rating jumps

📉 Toughest weekends

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

Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)

Career map (orange GC · green top-10 · grey the rest — tap a pin)