High-water mark
672.5372
career-best overall
93.4% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 672.5372 at Heat Beads BBQ Turf Wars — 93.4% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2018-11-05
SUCK KNUCKLE SMOKERS
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1527
peak 1527 · rated over 3 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2017-02-04
latest 2018-11-05
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 29%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
667.37
last 3 Master vs avg 667.37 (-0.00)
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±6.08
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 170.29 · weakest Pork Ribs (163.01)
Road miles
18,834
mi across 3 mapped stops · furthest 9424 mi
Schedule strength
43%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1556)
Master avg
667.37 / 720
3 Master contests · 0 GCs
Storylines (3 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.
Announced themselves early
3rd
at their very first contest
Finished 3 of 43 at their very first tracked contest, Yak Ales Melbourne Barbecue Festival (2017-02-04).
- 2017-02-04
- 43-team field
The long haul
18,834
road miles between contests
Contest to contest, they've covered roughly 18,834 miles across 3 mapped stops — the longest single trip being 9,424 miles to Yak Ales Melbourne Barbecue Festival.
- 3 mapped stops
- furthest 9,424 mi
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.
SUCK KNUCKLE 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 70 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.
#2288 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1533
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#2277 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1527
No shared contest yet.
Level with SUCK KNUCKLE SMOKERS on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2280 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1530
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#2287 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1527
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 6 years after SUCK KNUCKLE SMOKERS did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-head#2294 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1537
No shared contest yet.
Their rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 5 contests, alongside a 60% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-head#2281 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1532
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 175.4172 | 166.8572 | 170.29 | top 18% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 171.9772 | 158.2400 | 163.01 | top 48% |
| Pork | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 168.5712 | 160.4912 | 165.48 | top 45% |
| Brisket | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 171.4744 | 164.6056 | 168.59 | top 23% |
“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 contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 33% |
| Large (40+) | 2 | 0 | top 27% |
The story so far (14 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1.7 yrs
2017-02-04 → 2018-11-05
Busiest season
2017
2 contests
Contests a season
1.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
AL
1 of 3 contests
Contests visited
3
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
3 entries · 0 wins · 3 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 170.29 · weakest Pork Ribs (163.01)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 3 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
67%
2 of 3 contests
Master average
667.37
out of 720 · 3 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
148
103–51 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
18,834
3 mapped stops · furthest 9,424 mi
Schedule strength
1556
average field rating faced — tougher than 43% of rated contests
Power rating
1527
peak 1527 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2017
- First tracked contest Yak Ales Melbourne Barbecue Festival
- First call Yak Ales Melbourne Barbecue Festival
- First overall top-10 Yak Ales Melbourne Barbecue Festival
- First overall podium Yak Ales Melbourne Barbecue Festival
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score658.8340 Yak Ales Melbourne Barbecue Festival
- Career-best single call (Chicken)175.4172 World Barbecue Championship
- 2018
- Career-best overall score672.5372 Heat Beads BBQ Turf Wars
- Peak power rating (1527) Heat Beads BBQ Turf Wars
- Most recent contest Heat Beads BBQ Turf Wars
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +14.8 | Yak Ales Melbourne Barbecue Festival | 2017-02-04 |
| +6.2 | Heat Beads BBQ Turf Wars | 2018-11-05 |
| +6 | World Barbecue Championship | 2017-11-08 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 33% | 93.4% | 93.4% |
| 2017 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 27% | 93.2% | 92.3% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-11-05 | Heat Beads BBQ Turf Wars Cranbourne Victoria, 3977 | 7 / 21 (672.5372) | 7 (168.5944) | 2 (171.9772) | 14 (160.4912) | 5 (171.4744) |
| 2017-11-08 | World Barbecue Championship Orange Beach, AL | 44 / 93 (670.7428) | 6 (175.4172) | 83 (158.2400) | 48 (167.3828) | 29 (169.7028) |
| 2017-02-04 | Yak Ales Melbourne Barbecue Festival Melbourne, 8008 | 3 / 43 (658.8340) | 6 (166.8572) | 20 (158.8000) | 7 (168.5712) | 6 (164.6056) |