Announced themselves early
5th
at their very first contest
Finished 5 of 21 at their very first tracked contest, Barn Burner BBQ (2015-03-21).
- 2015-03-21
- 21-team field
Smokey's BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1497
peak 1510 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2015-03-21
latest 2017-09-22
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
2 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 58%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 160.31 · weakest Brisket (148.59)
Road miles
2,517
mi across 2 mapped stops · furthest 2517 mi
Master avg
620.29 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs
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.
Smokey's BBQ 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 119 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.
#3329 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1509
1–0 in 1 shared contest (100% to Smokey's BBQ)
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Smokey's BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head#3340 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1500
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3321 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 8 years after Smokey's BBQ did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-head#3323 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1497
No shared contest yet.
Level with Smokey's BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3313 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3342 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.3944 | 150.2516 | 154.82 | top 68% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 169.1428 | 151.4744 | 160.31 | top 46% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.7600 | 155.3828 | 156.57 | top 64% |
| Brisket | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 166.8800 | 130.2972 | 148.59 | top 51% |
“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.
The story so far (14 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
2.5 yrs
2015-03-21 → 2017-09-22
Busiest season
2017
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
ME
1 of 2 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 160.31 · weakest Brisket (148.59)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 1 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
50%
1 of 2 contests
Master average
620.29
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
50
17–33 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
2,517
2 mapped stops · furthest 2,517 mi
Longest layoff
2.5 yrs
2015-03-21 → 2017-09-22
Power rating
1497
peak 1510 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2015
- First tracked contest Barn Burner BBQ
- First call Barn Burner BBQ
- First overall top-10 Barn Burner BBQ
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score650.8000 Barn Burner BBQ
- Career-best overall score650.8000 Barn Burner BBQ
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)169.1428 Barn Burner BBQ
- 2017
- Most recent contest *Great Maine BBQ Challenge
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 93% | 81.9% | 81.9% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 24% | 90.4% | 90.4% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-09-22 | *Great Maine BBQ Challenge Bangor, ME | 27 / 29 (589.7832) | 23 (150.2516) | 24 (151.4744) | 19 (157.7600) | 27 (130.2972) |
| 2015-03-21 | Barn Burner BBQ Yarrow, BC | 5 / 21 (650.8000) | 12 (159.3944) | 2 (169.1428) | 13 (155.3828) | 2 (166.8800) |