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.
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.
Rolling Smoke Que 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 123 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.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2023, 3 years before Rolling Smoke Que's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Rolling Smoke Que's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2016, 10 years before Rolling Smoke Que's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Rolling Smoke Que on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2017, 9 years before Rolling Smoke Que's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Rolling Smoke Que's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.5600 | 157.6572 | 163.11 | top 45% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.4912 | 160.4912 | 160.49 | top 53% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.8572 | 170.8572 | 170.86 | top 34% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 143.4288 | 143.4288 | 143.43 | top 71% |
“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 58% | 88.4% | 88.4% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-09 | 10th Annual Jimmy Jam BBQ Slam 🏅 St. Augustine, FL | 22 / 38 (318.1484) | 15 (168.5600) | 20 (160.4912) | 13 (170.8572) | 27 (143.4288) |