High-water mark
679.3372
career-best overall
94.4% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 679.3372 at Uniquely Union Festival — 94.4% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2025-09-05
Smoke Till You're Broke
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1495
peak 1504 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2025-09-05
latest 2025-11-14
Best ToY finish
#991
Master 2025
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
1
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 70%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 170.28 · weakest Pork Ribs (167.95)
Road miles
148
mi across 2 mapped stops · furthest 148 mi
Purse competed for
$16K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
675.32 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs
Still inside their first twelve months: see what a first season usually looks like.
Storylines (1 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.
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.
Smoke Till You're Broke 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 125 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.
#3424 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1510
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3406 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1495
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2019, 6 years before Smoke Till You're Broke's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3404 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
Level with Smoke Till You're Broke on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3402 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1495
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 6 years before Smoke Till You're Broke's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3415 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1495
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 6 years before Smoke Till You're Broke's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3414 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 6 years before Smoke Till You're Broke's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 171.9656 | 166.2516 | 169.49 | top 45% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 171.9656 | 163.9428 | 167.95 | top 58% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 170.2860 | 170.2744 | 170.28 | top 53% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.8344 | 165.1200 | 167.98 | top 60% |
“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 state / province
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| GA | 1 | 0 | top 84% |
| SC | 1 | 0 | top 56% |
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 56% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 84% |
The story so far (14 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0.2 yrs
2025-09-05 → 2025-11-14
Busiest season
2025
2 contests
Cooks most in
GA
1 of 2 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
3 entries · 1 win · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 170.28 · weakest Pork Ribs (167.95)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 1 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 2 contests
Master average
675.32
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
97
20–87 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
148
2 mapped stops · furthest 148 mi
Purse competed for
$16,100
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Power rating
1495
peak 1504 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2025
- First tracked contest Uniquely Union Festival
- First call Uniquely Union Festival
- First category win (Chicken) Uniquely Union Festival
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score679.3372 Uniquely Union Festival
- Career-best overall score679.3372 Uniquely Union Festival
- Career-best single call (Chicken)171.9656 Uniquely Union Festival
- Most recent contest Atlanta BBQ Store Classic
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 50% | top 70% | 94.4% | 93.8% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-14 | Atlanta BBQ Store Classic 🏅 Cumming, GA | 47 / 56 (671.3032) | 47 (166.2516) | 51 (163.9428) | 39 (170.2744) | 29 (170.8344) |
| 2025-09-05 | Uniquely Union Festival 🏅 Union, SC | 14 / 25 (679.3372) | 1 (170.2628) | 6 (171.9656) | 9 (170.2860) | 17 (165.1200) |
Career map (orange GC · green top-10 · grey the rest — tap a pin)
Team of the Year standings (rank per category by season — year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 ↗ | Master | #991 (105 pts) | #1008 (115 pts) | #892 (165 pts) | #897 (135 pts) | #1076 (90 pts) |