#4029 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1482
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headSmoke & Bark BBQ Team
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1482
peak 1482 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2025-11-15
latest 2026-02-21
Best ToY finish
#868
Master 2026
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 82%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 165.11 · weakest Brisket (159.42)
Road miles
16
mi across 2 mapped stops
Master avg
644.49 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
329.14 / 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. Still inside their first twelve months: see what a first season usually looks like.
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 & Bark BBQ Team 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 115 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.
#4058 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1501
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2023, 3 years before Smoke & Bark BBQ Team's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#4046 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1482
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2019, 6 years before Smoke & Bark BBQ Team's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#4040 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1482
No shared contest yet.
Level with Smoke & Bark BBQ Team on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#4025 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1482
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 5 years before Smoke & Bark BBQ Team's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#4035 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1503
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 7 years before Smoke & Bark BBQ Team'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 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 165.7028 | 164.5256 | 165.11 | top 77% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 163.4400 | 158.8688 | 161.15 | top 82% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 168.0000 | 161.6800 | 164.84 | top 83% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.4172 | 159.4172 | 159.42 | top 78% |
“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 (13 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0.3 yrs
2025-11-15 → 2026-02-21
Busiest season
2026
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 165.11 · weakest Brisket (159.42)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 1 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
50%
1 of 2 contests
Master average
644.49
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Backyard average
329.14
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
22
4–20 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
16
2 mapped stops
Power rating
1482
peak 1482 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2025
- First tracked contest BBQ Fest Palmares (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First call BBQ Fest Palmares (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall top-10 BBQ Fest Palmares (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score329.1428 BBQ Fest Palmares (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best single call (Pork)168.0000 BBQ Fest Palmares (BACKYARD ONLY)
- 2026
- Career-best overall score644.4916 BBQ Fest Costa Rica
- Most recent contest BBQ Fest Costa Rica
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 | 0% | top 89% | 89.5% | 89.5% |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 75% | 91.4% | 91.4% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-21 | BBQ Fest Costa Rica Alajuela, 10903 | 16 / 18 (644.4916) | 12 (164.5256) | 16 (158.8688) | 14 (161.6800) | 14 (159.4172) |
| 2025-11-15 | BBQ Fest Palmares (BACKYARD ONLY) Palmares, 20701 | 6 / 8 (329.1428) | 7 (165.7028) | 6 (163.4400) | 7 (168.0000) | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 ↗ | Master | #868 (88 pts) | #896 (108 pts) | #991 (88 pts) | #878 (98 pts) | #875 (98 pts) |