Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
95.6% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 687.9772 at Dodge City Days National Beef Smokin' Saddles BBQ Contest — 95.6% 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 Q 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 93 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.
6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Smoking Q's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Smoking Q on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2017.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Smoking Q's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Smoking Q's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.8228 | 158.8000 | 162.81 | top 66% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 171.4172 | 166.8344 | 169.13 | top 37% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 174.8800 | 160.5372 | 167.71 | top 47% |
| Brisket | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 179.4400 | 171.9772 | 175.71 | top 15% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OK | 1 | 0 | top 47% |
| KS | 1 | 0 | top 23% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 47% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 23% |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 35% | 95.6% | 93.8% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-09-15 | *Cherokee Strip BBQ Cook-Off Ponca City, OK | 18 / 38 (662.7316) | 28 (158.8000) | 6 (171.4172) | 25 (160.5372) | 10 (171.9772) |
| 2017-07-28 | Dodge City Days National Beef Smokin' Saddles BBQ Contest Dodge City, KS | 10 / 43 (687.9772) | 25 (166.8228) | 25 (166.8344) | 12 (174.8800) | 2 (179.4400) |