High-water mark
663.4056
career-best overall
92.1% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 663.4056 at Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff — 92.1% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2025-09-12
Nut'n But Smoke Kookers
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1498
peak 1503 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
2025-09-12
latest 2025-11-05
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 71%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
661.44
last 3 Master vs avg 661.44 (+0.00)
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±1.67
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Brisket
avg 168.18 · weakest Pork Ribs (161.69)
Road miles
631
mi across 4 mapped stops · furthest 631 mi
Purse competed for
$156K
listed at 4 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
661.44 / 720
3 Master contests · 0 GCs
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Storylines (3 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.
A tough matchup
3–0
behind in the head-to-head
CHICKEN FRIED BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings
CHICKEN FRIED BBQ has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
A strong matchup
3–0
ahead in the head-to-head
Ahead in 100% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of BJ'S BLUE SMOKE BBQ in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
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.
Nut'n But Smoke Kookers 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 121 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.
#3297 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1514
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#3295 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2015, 10 years before Nut'n But Smoke Kookers's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3285 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 7 years before Nut'n But Smoke Kookers's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3288 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1509
No shared contest yet.
Level with Nut'n But Smoke Kookers on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3301 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 8 years before Nut'n But Smoke Kookers's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3296 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 8 years before Nut'n But Smoke Kookers'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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 173.7028 | 161.1200 | 167.22 | top 60% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.6684 | 158.2400 | 161.69 | top 85% |
| Pork | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.1200 | 158.2400 | 164.35 | top 71% |
| Brisket | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.8456 | 162.8456 | 168.18 | top 41% |
“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
0.1 yrs
2025-09-12 → 2025-11-05
Busiest season
2025
4 contests
Cooks most in
KS
3 of 4 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
3
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
3 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Brisket
averages 168.18 · weakest Pork Ribs (161.69)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 4 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 4 contests
Master average
661.44
out of 720 · 3 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
463
163–485 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
631
4 mapped stops · furthest 631 mi
Purse competed for
$156,000
listed at 4 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Power rating
1498
peak 1503 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2025
- First tracked contest Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score663.4056 Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff
- Career-best overall score663.4056 Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff
- Career-best single call (Chicken)173.7028 Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff
- Most recent contest American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest
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 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 71% | 92.1% | 91.9% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-05 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest unrated Kansas City, KS | 145 / 158 (661.5768) | 130 (166.8228) | 138 (165.6684) | 156 (158.2400) | 68 (170.8456) |
| 2025-11-05 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 300 / 401 (659.3256) | 338 (161.1200) | 358 (158.2400) | 215 (169.1200) | 128 (170.8456) |
| 2025-11-05 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Sides Kansas City, KS | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2025-09-12 | Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff 🏅 Waller, TX | 43 / 92 (663.4056) | 12 (173.7028) | 73 (161.1544) | 55 (165.7028) | 45 (162.8456) |