Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
96.0% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 691.3256 at Christmas on the River State Bar B Q Championship (OPEN FORMAT) — 96.0% 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.
Smoking Wizard II has 2 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 95 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.
7 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Smoking Wizard II's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Smoking Wizard II on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2019, 5 years before Smoking Wizard II's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2014, 11 years before Smoking Wizard II's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Smoking Wizard II's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2019, 6 years before Smoking Wizard II'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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171.4400 | 169.6684 | 170.55 | top 46% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 176.5716 | 174.2744 | 175.42 | top 21% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 173.1200 | 158.8344 | 165.98 | top 58% |
| Brisket | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 173.7028 | 171.9656 | 172.83 | top 37% |
“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.
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| AL | 1 | 0 | top 48% |
| TX | 1 | 0 | top 31% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 48% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 31% |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 48% | 96% | 96% |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 31% | 94.2% | 94.2% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-05 | Christmas on the River State Bar B Q Championship (OPEN FORMAT) 🏅 Demopolis, AL | 10 / 21 (691.3256) | 14 (169.6684) | 5 (176.5716) | 7 (173.1200) | 13 (171.9656) |
| 2024-09-13 | Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff 🏅 Waller, TX | 21 / 67 (678.2516) | 17 (171.4400) | 12 (174.2744) | 56 (158.8344) | 8 (173.7028) |