A tough matchup
3–0
behind in the head-to-head
Club Carbon CR ahead in 100% of their meetings
Club Carbon CR has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
Valhalla Smokers
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1480
peak 1500 · rated over 3 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2025-03-14
latest 2026-03-06
Best ToY finish
#657
Master 2025
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 76%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
643.00
last 3 Master vs avg 643.00 (+0.00)
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±4.46
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 166.08 · weakest Brisket (153.68)
Road miles
110
mi across 3 mapped stops · furthest 63 mi
Schedule strength
16%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1523)
Master avg
643.00 / 720
3 Master contests · 0 GCs
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.
Valhalla Smokers has 3 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 149 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.
#4116 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1509
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#4113 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1480
No shared contest yet.
Level with Valhalla Smokers on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#4143 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1479
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2017, 8 years before Valhalla Smokers's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#4151 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1503
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 5 years before Valhalla Smokers's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#4144 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1479
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 5 years before Valhalla Smokers's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#4159 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1479
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 7 years before Valhalla Smokers's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 173.1544 | 158.2400 | 166.08 | top 60% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 172.0116 | 158.2972 | 164.59 | top 65% |
| Pork | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.2972 | 151.9656 | 158.65 | top 82% |
| Brisket | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 165.1088 | 141.7028 | 153.68 | top 72% |
“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 (14 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1 yrs
2025-03-14 → 2026-03-06
Busiest season
2025
2 contests
Contests a season
1.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
SJ
1 of 3 contests
Contests visited
3
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
3 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 166.08 · weakest Brisket (153.68)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 3 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
33%
1 of 3 contests
Master average
643.00
out of 720 · 3 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
33
12–34 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
110
3 mapped stops · furthest 63 mi
Schedule strength
1523
average field rating faced — tougher than 16% of rated contests
Power rating
1480
peak 1500 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2025
- First tracked contest Masters BBQ Challenge CR
- First call Masters BBQ Challenge CR
- First overall top-10 Masters BBQ Challenge CR
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score648.5260 Masters BBQ Challenge CR
- Career-best overall score648.5260 Masters BBQ Challenge CR
- Career-best single call (Chicken)173.1544 Masters BBQ Challenge CR
- Peak power rating (1500) Masters BBQ Challenge CR
- 2026
- Most recent contest Jaco Beach BBQ Challenge
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +0.3 | Masters BBQ Challenge CR | 2025-03-14 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -11.4 | Jaco Beach BBQ Challenge | 2026-03-06 |
| -9.1 | Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2025 | 2025-06-27 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 94% | 89.3% | 89.3% |
| 2025 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 67% | 90.1% | 89.3% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-06 | Jaco Beach BBQ Challenge Play Jaco, 61101 | 15 / 16 (642.8572) | 14 (166.8456) | 10 (172.0116) | 14 (162.2972) | 16 (141.7028) |
| 2025-06-27 | Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2025 Perez Zeldon, SJ | 13 / 16 (637.6116) | 13 (158.2400) | 8 (163.4516) | 14 (161.6800) | 14 (154.2400) |
| 2025-03-14 | Masters BBQ Challenge CR San Jose, 10104 | 9 / 17 (648.5260) | 2 (173.1544) | 14 (158.2972) | 12 (151.9656) | 5 (165.1088) |
Career map (orange GC · green top-10 · grey the rest — tap a pin)
Team of the Year standings (rank per category by season — year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 ↗ | Master | #657 (228 pts) | #571 (343 pts) | #756 (233 pts) | #736 (203 pts) | #619 (263 pts) |