#3666 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Hedge Row Smokers's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headHedge Row Smokers
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1490
peak 1490 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
1
in the data
First seen
2026-08-28
latest 2026-08-28
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 1 contests
Avg finish
top 90%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 159.98 · weakest Chicken (147.38)
Purse competed for
$5K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Master avg
614.18 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
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.
Hedge Row Smokers 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 163 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.
#3651 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2017, 9 years before Hedge Row Smokers's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3654 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 2023, 3 years before Hedge Row Smokers's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3661 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
Level with Hedge Row Smokers on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3641 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1490
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 7 years before Hedge Row Smokers's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3639 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1490
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 8 years before Hedge Row 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 147.3828 | 147.3828 | 147.38 | top 94% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.9772 | 155.9772 | 155.98 | top 90% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.9772 | 159.9772 | 159.98 | top 81% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 150.8456 | 150.8456 | 150.85 | top 90% |
“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 yrs
2026-08-28 → 2026-08-28
Busiest season
2026
1 contest
Cooks most in
KS
1 of 1 contests
Contests visited
1
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
1 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 159.98 · weakest Chicken (147.38)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 1 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 1 contests
Master average
614.18
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
30
3–27 across every shared overall standing
Purse competed for
$4,500
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Power rating
1490
peak 1490 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2026
- First tracked contest East Central State BBQ Cookoff - Paola Roots Festival
- Career-best overall score614.1828 East Central State BBQ Cookoff - Paola Roots Festival
- Career-best single call (Pork)159.9772 East Central State BBQ Cookoff - Paola Roots Festival
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 90% | 85.3% | 85.3% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-28 | East Central State BBQ Cookoff - Paola Roots Festival 🏅 Paola, KS | 28 / 31 (614.1828) | 29 (147.3828) | 28 (155.9772) | 25 (159.9772) | 28 (150.8456) |