Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
92.5% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 666.1712 at Smoking in the Foothills Barbecue Competition And Festival — 92.5% of a perfect 720.
CREEKSIDE SMOKERS NC ahead in 100% of their meetings
CREEKSIDE SMOKERS NC has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
Ahead in 100% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of HOGGY BOTTOM BOYS in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
A tougher draw than 80% of rated fields
The fields they enter average a 1604 power rating — a tougher draw than 80% of every rated contest in the data.
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.
Smart's Smokin' BBQ 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 109 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.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Smart's Smokin' BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headCareers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2014, 4 years before Smart's Smokin' BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 7 years after Smart's Smokin' BBQ did, first appearing in 2024.
⚔ Head-to-headCareers of much the same size, 6 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171.9656 | 162.2628 | 167.59 | top 54% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.2628 | 159.3484 | 164.33 | top 56% |
| Pork | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 167.9656 | 162.8228 | 164.72 | top 47% |
| Brisket | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.5944 | 155.9432 | 161.70 | top 58% |
“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.
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 2 | 0 | top 52% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 51% |
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smoking in the Foothills Barbecue Competition And Festival | 2 | 15 | 0 | top 52% | 2018-10-19 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +7.5 | Smoking in the Foothills Barbecue Competition And Festival | 2018-10-19 |
| +2.9 | Polar Pig BBQ Cook-Off (JUDGES FULL) | 2017-11-10 |
| +0.9 | Smoking in the Foothills Barbecue Competition And Festival | 2017-10-20 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 43% | 92.5% | 92.5% |
| 2017 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 56% | 91.4% | 90.9% |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-10-19 | Smoking in the Foothills Barbecue Competition And Festival Lenoir, NC | 15 / 35 (666.1712) | 12 (171.9656) | 11 (170.2628) | 25 (163.3828) | 25 (160.5600) |
| 2017-11-10 | Polar Pig BBQ Cook-Off (JUDGES FULL) Concord, NC | 24 / 47 (650.6976) | 23 (168.5488) | 24 (163.3828) | 21 (162.8228) | 32 (155.9432) |
| 2017-10-20 | Smoking in the Foothills Barbecue Competition And Festival Lenoir, NC | 24 / 39 (658.1712) | 31 (162.2628) | 33 (159.3484) | 10 (167.9656) | 13 (168.5944) |
| 2016-10-14 | Smoking in the Foothills Lenoir, NC | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2015-10-16 | Smoking In The Foothills Barbecue Competition and Festival Lenoir, NC | — | — | — | — | — |