High-water mark
92.6% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 666.7312 at Lakeland Pig Festival — 92.6% of a perfect 720.
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- 2026-01-22
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92.6% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 666.7312 at Lakeland Pig Festival — 92.6% of a perfect 720.
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.
2nd Hand Smoke of Lakeland 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 154 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.
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team 2nd Hand Smoke of Lakeland has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where 2nd Hand Smoke of Lakeland's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with 2nd Hand Smoke of Lakeland on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2022, 4 years before 2nd Hand Smoke of Lakeland's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2015, 11 years before 2nd Hand Smoke of Lakeland's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2019, 7 years before 2nd Hand Smoke of Lakeland's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.7028 | 169.7028 | 169.70 | top 65% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.6800 | 161.6800 | 161.68 | top 87% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.3712 | 167.3712 | 167.37 | top 70% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.9772 | 167.9772 | 167.98 | top 63% |
“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 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 81% | 92.6% | 92.6% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-22 | Lakeland Pig Festival 🏅 Lakeland, FL | 51 / 63 (666.7312) | 41 (169.7028) | 55 (161.6800) | 44 (167.3712) | 40 (167.9772) |