A tough matchup
4–0
behind in the head-to-head
OLD VIRGINIA SMOKE ahead in 100% of their meetings
OLD VIRGINIA SMOKE has come out ahead in 4 of their 4 shared contests.
Fired Up For Recovery
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1455
peak 1455 · rated over 4 contests ⓘ
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
2013-09-06
latest 2016-09-09
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 93%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
556.23
last 4 Master vs avg 556.23 (+0.00)
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±35.09
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 145.12 · weakest Brisket (134.80)
Road miles
12
mi across 4 mapped stops
Schedule strength
29%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1539)
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Master avg
556.23 / 720
4 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.
Fired Up For Recovery 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 130 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.
#5330 of the rated field
- Contests
- 11
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1454
0–4 in 4 shared contests (0% to Fired Up For Recovery)
These two have cooked 4 of the same contests — TAILWIND BBQ ahead 4–0 — so there's a record behind this pairing and not just a matching number.
⚔ Head-to-head#5305 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1455
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#5306 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1455
No shared contest yet.
Level with Fired Up For Recovery on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#5327 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1455
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#5317 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1455
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#5300 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1455
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-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 148.5716 | 127.9884 | 139.40 | top 93% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 156.5828 | 130.2172 | 145.12 | top 81% |
| Pork | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 153.7256 | 101.3824 | 136.91 | top 82% |
| Brisket | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 151.4060 | 115.8860 | 134.80 | top 83% |
“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 (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
3 yrs
2013-09-06 → 2016-09-09
Busiest season
2016
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 4 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
VA
4 of 4 contests
Contests visited
4
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
4 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 145.12 · weakest Brisket (134.80)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 4 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 4 contests
Master average
556.23
out of 720 · 4 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
67
8–102 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
12
4 mapped stops
Schedule strength
1539
average field rating faced — tougher than 29% of rated contests
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
1 yrs
2014-09-05 → 2015-09-11
Power rating
1455
peak 1455 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2013
- First tracked contest Recovery Fest 2013
- Peak power rating (1487) Recovery Fest 2013
- 2015
- Career-best overall score606.3092 11th Annual Recovery Fest
- 2016
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)156.5828 12th Annual Recovery Fest/7th Annual BBQ State Championship
- Most recent contest 12th Annual Recovery Fest/7th Annual BBQ State Championship
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -13.5 | Recovery Fest 2013 | 2013-09-06 |
| -12.4 | 10th Annual Recovery Fest | 2014-09-05 |
| -12.1 | 12th Annual Recovery Fest/7th Annual BBQ State Championship | 2016-09-09 |
| -7.2 | 11th Annual Recovery Fest | 2015-09-11 |
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 100% | 70.6% | 70.6% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 86% | 84.2% | 84.2% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 94% | 76.2% | 76.2% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 93% | 78.1% | 78.1% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-09-09 | 12th Annual Recovery Fest/7th Annual BBQ State Championship 🏅 Richmond, VA | 25 / 25 (508.0796) | 25 (134.2284) | 19 (156.5828) | 25 (101.3824) | 25 (115.8860) |
| 2015-09-11 | 11th Annual Recovery Fest Richmond, VA | 25 / 29 (606.3092) | 24 (148.5716) | 23 (152.6060) | 24 (153.7256) | 21 (151.4060) |
| 2014-09-05 | 10th Annual Recovery Fest Richmond, VA | 30 / 32 (548.2856) | 29 (146.8228) | 31 (130.2172) | 27 (143.3484) | 32 (127.8972) |
| 2013-09-06 | Recovery Fest 2013 Richmond, VA | 26 / 28 (562.2396) | 28 (127.9884) | 20 (141.0628) | 17 (149.1656) | 17 (144.0228) |