High-water mark
92.1% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 331.4056 at Torry Island BBQ Showdown — 92.1% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2026-03-20
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here. Still inside their first twelve months: see what a first season usually looks like.
Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
92.1% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 331.4056 at Torry Island BBQ Showdown — 92.1% of a perfect 360.
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.
Smokin' Hot & Dirty 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 100 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.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2020, 6 years before Smokin' Hot & Dirty's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Smokin' Hot & Dirty's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2013, 13 years before Smokin' Hot & Dirty's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Smokin' Hot & Dirty on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 8 contests, alongside a 50% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-headThis is the highest they've ever been rated, 8 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 162.8800 | 162.8800 | 162.88 | top 21% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 168.5256 | 168.5256 | 168.53 | top 21% |
| 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.
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 21% | 92.1% | 92.1% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-20 | Torry Island BBQ Showdown 🏅 Belle Glade, FL | 7 / 34 (331.4056) | 7 (162.8800) | 7 (168.5256) | — | — |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 ↗ | Backyard | #209 (147 pts) | #217 (147 pts) | #229 (147 pts) | — | — |