The one to beat
2×
one call ahead of them
TOTALLY SMOKIN has finished one call ahead of Great Southern Smokers 2 times — their closest competition in the data.
Great Southern Smokers
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1484
peak 1484 · rated over 4 contests ⓘ
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
2013-09-27
latest 2016-09-30
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 65%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
627.39
last 4 Master vs avg 627.39 (+0.00)
Walk rate
25%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±13.03
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 160.40 · weakest Pork (154.14)
Road miles
13
mi across 4 mapped stops
Schedule strength
8%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1512)
Master avg
627.39 / 720
4 Master contests · 0 GCs
Storylines (2 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
4–0
behind in the head-to-head
ACE BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings
ACE BBQ has come out ahead in 4 of their 4 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.
Great Southern Smokers has 4 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 143 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.
#3946 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1484
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#3935 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1484
No shared contest yet.
Level with Great Southern Smokers on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3916 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1485
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 5 years after Great Southern Smokers did, first appearing in 2018.
⚔ Head-to-head#3932 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1509
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#3923 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1485
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#3944 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1484
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 6 contests to 4.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 169.1772 | 155.9312 | 160.40 | top 54% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.1084 | 144.5372 | 158.55 | top 64% |
| Pork | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.9028 | 147.3828 | 154.14 | top 74% |
| Brisket | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.7828 | 137.0744 | 154.30 | top 57% |
“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 contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 71% |
| Large (40+) | 3 | 0 | top 64% |
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downtown Jonesboro BBQ Festival | 2 | 27 | 0 | top 70% | 2015-09-25 |
The story so far (15 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
3 yrs
2013-09-27 → 2016-09-30
Busiest season
2016
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 4 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
AR
4 of 4 contests
Contests visited
3
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
4 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 160.40 · weakest Pork (154.14)
Walk rate
25%
a top-10 call in 1 of 4 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 4 contests
Master average
627.39
out of 720 · 4 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
124
62–112 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
13
4 mapped stops
Schedule strength
1512
average field rating faced — tougher than 8% of rated contests
Longest layoff
1 yrs
2015-09-25 → 2016-09-30
Power rating
1484
peak 1484 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2013
- First tracked contest Downtown Jonesboro BBQ Fest
- Peak power rating (1498) Downtown Jonesboro BBQ Fest
- 2016
- First call *Downtown Jonesboro BBQ Festival
- Career-best overall score641.1540 *Downtown Jonesboro BBQ Festival
- Career-best single call (Chicken)169.1772 *Downtown Jonesboro BBQ Festival
- Most recent contest *Downtown Jonesboro BBQ Festival
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -5.8 | Downtown Jonesboro BBQ Festival | 2015-09-25 |
| -5.3 | Downtown Jonesboro BBQ Festival | 2014-09-26 |
| -2.5 | *Downtown Jonesboro BBQ Festival | 2016-09-30 |
| -2 | Downtown Jonesboro BBQ Fest | 2013-09-27 |
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 | 100% | top 64% | 89% | 89% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 71% | 84.3% | 84.3% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 69% | 87% | 87% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 58% | 88.2% | 88.2% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-09-30 | *Downtown Jonesboro BBQ Festival Jonesboro, AR | 28 / 44 (641.1540) | 7 (169.1772) | 31 (161.6912) | 36 (149.6912) | 29 (160.5944) |
| 2015-09-25 | Downtown Jonesboro BBQ Festival Jonesboro, AR | 27 / 38 (606.7660) | 26 (158.2516) | 37 (144.5372) | 18 (166.9028) | 27 (137.0744) |
| 2014-09-26 | Downtown Jonesboro BBQ Festival Jonesboro, AR | 33 / 48 (626.2968) | 32 (158.2512) | 29 (158.8800) | 42 (147.3828) | 20 (161.7828) |
| 2013-09-27 | Downtown Jonesboro BBQ Fest Jonesboro, AR | 28 / 48 (635.3596) | 32 (155.9312) | 13 (169.1084) | 38 (152.5828) | 24 (157.7372) |