High-water mark
672.5028
career-best overall
93.4% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 672.5028 at 8th Annual VFW Post 846 BBQ Challenge — 93.4% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2016-04-22
Smoke & Brew BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1510
peak 1510 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2016-04-22
latest 2017-04-21
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 59%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
33%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 168.01 · weakest Chicken (155.40)
Road miles
2
mi across 2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$2K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
Master avg
662.49 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
290.83 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 0 GCs
Master and Backyard overall scores sit on different scales (Master is out of 720, Backyard out of 360), 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 (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.
Smoke & Brew BBQ 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 99 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.
#2829 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1510
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#2841 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1515
No shared contest yet.
Level with Smoke & Brew BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2843 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1519
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#2830 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1510
No shared contest yet.
Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2016.
⚔ Head-to-head#2847 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1509
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 6 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#2833 of the rated field
- Contests
- 8
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 50%
- Peak
- 1529
No shared contest yet.
Their rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 8 contests, alongside a 50% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 174.2856 | 137.0972 | 155.40 | top 66% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 167.4172 | 153.7372 | 162.66 | top 42% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.8572 | 165.1544 | 168.01 | top 38% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2400 | 159.3828 | 162.81 | top 54% |
“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 state / province
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| KS | 2 | 0 | top 45% |
| IL | 1 | 0 | top 88% |
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 88% |
| Large (40+) | 2 | 0 | top 45% |
The story so far (15 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1 yrs
2016-04-22 → 2017-04-21
Busiest season
—
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 3 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
KS
2 of 3 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
3
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
3 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 168.01 · weakest Chicken (155.40)
Walk rate
33%
a top-10 call in 1 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 3 contests
Master average
662.49
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Backyard average
290.83
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
110
70–72 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
2
2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$1,850
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
Power rating
1510
peak 1510 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- First tracked contest Smoke on the Midway (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First call Smoke on the Midway (BACKYARD ONLY)
- 2016
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score672.5028 8th Annual VFW Post 846 BBQ Challenge
- Career-best overall score672.5028 8th Annual VFW Post 846 BBQ Challenge
- Career-best single call (Chicken)174.2856 8th Annual VFW Post 846 BBQ Challenge
- 2017
- Most recent contest 9th Annual VFW Post 846 BBQ Challenge
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 88% | 80.8% | 80.8% |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 53% | 90.6% | 90.6% |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 37% | 93.4% | 93.4% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-04-21 | 9th Annual VFW Post 846 BBQ Challenge Overland Park, KS | 34 / 64 (652.4800) | 54 (154.8228) | 18 (167.4172) | 14 (170.8572) | 44 (159.3828) |
| 2016-04-22 | 8th Annual VFW Post 846 BBQ Challenge Overland Park, KS | 22 / 60 (672.5028) | 11 (174.2856) | 31 (166.8228) | 33 (165.1544) | 23 (166.2400) |
| Smoke on the Midway (BACKYARD ONLY) Fairbury, IL | 15 / 17 (290.8344) | 16 (137.0972) | 8 (153.7372) | — | — |