High-water mark
683.3600
career-best overall
94.9% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 683.3600 at The River Grill before the Big Chill — 94.9% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2014-10-10
Velvet Smoke BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1515
peak 1515 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2014-10-10
latest 2016-10-21
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 32%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 173.99 · weakest Brisket (168.84)
Road miles
284
mi across 2 mapped stops · furthest 284 mi
Master avg
682.49 / 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.
Velvet Smoke 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 86 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.
#2637 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1515
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2642 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 7 years after Velvet Smoke BBQ did, first appearing in 2021.
⚔ Head-to-head#2646 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1518
No shared contest yet.
Level with Velvet Smoke BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2645 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1515
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2635 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1519
No shared contest yet.
6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Velvet Smoke BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head#2627 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1519
No shared contest yet.
6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Velvet Smoke BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171.9656 | 169.1084 | 170.54 | top 41% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 176.0000 | 171.9772 | 173.99 | top 24% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.7144 | 168.5256 | 169.12 | top 41% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 172.0000 | 165.6800 | 168.84 | top 35% |
“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 yrs
2014-10-10 → 2016-10-21
Busiest season
2016
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
TN
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 173.99 · weakest Brisket (168.84)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 1 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 2 contests
Master average
682.49
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
168
108–59 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
284
2 mapped stops · furthest 284 mi
Longest layoff
2 yrs
2014-10-10 → 2016-10-21
Power rating
1515
peak 1515 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2014
- First tracked contest The River Grill before the Big Chill
- First call The River Grill before the Big Chill
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score683.3600 The River Grill before the Big Chill
- Career-best overall score683.3600 The River Grill before the Big Chill
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)176.0000 The River Grill before the Big Chill
- 2016
- Most recent contest Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY)
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 31% | 94.7% | 94.7% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 33% | 94.9% | 94.9% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-10-21 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) Lynchburg, TN | 30 / 96 (681.6112) | 51 (169.1084) | 32 (171.9772) | 41 (168.5256) | 28 (172.0000) |
| 2014-10-10 | The River Grill before the Big Chill Cincinnati, OH | 16 / 49 (683.3600) | 14 (171.9656) | 7 (176.0000) | 19 (169.7144) | 20 (165.6800) |