#3424 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1510
No shared contest yet.
5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Smokin Jays's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headSmokin Jays
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1495
peak 1495 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
1
in the data
First seen
2025-10-24
latest 2025-10-24
Best ToY finish
#1148
Master 2025
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 1 contests
Avg finish
top 80%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 167.97 · weakest Chicken (147.92)
Purse competed for
$19K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Master avg
632.90 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Still inside their first twelve months: see what a first season usually looks like.
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.
Smokin Jays has 1 rated contest — 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 124 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.
#3406 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1495
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2019, 6 years before Smokin Jays's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3404 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
Level with Smokin Jays on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3402 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1495
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 6 years before Smokin Jays's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3415 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1495
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 6 years before Smokin Jays's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3414 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 6 years before Smokin Jays'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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 147.9200 | 147.9200 | 147.92 | top 89% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.9544 | 159.9544 | 159.95 | top 76% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.9656 | 167.9656 | 167.97 | top 60% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.0628 | 157.0628 | 157.06 | top 80% |
“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 (13 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0 yrs
2025-10-24 → 2025-10-24
Busiest season
2025
1 contest
Cooks most in
NC
1 of 1 contests
Contests visited
1
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
1 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 167.97 · weakest Chicken (147.92)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 1 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 1 contests
Master average
632.90
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
44
9–35 across every shared overall standing
Purse competed for
$18,900
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Power rating
1495
peak 1495 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2025
- First tracked contest Eastern Carolina BBQ Throwdown
- Career-best overall score632.9028 Eastern Carolina BBQ Throwdown
- Career-best single call (Pork)167.9656 Eastern Carolina BBQ Throwdown
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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 80% | 87.9% | 87.9% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-24 | Eastern Carolina BBQ Throwdown 🏅 Rocky Mount, NC | 36 / 45 (632.9028) | 40 (147.9200) | 34 (159.9544) | 27 (167.9656) | 36 (157.0628) |
Career map (orange GC · green top-10 · grey the rest — tap a pin)
Team of the Year standings (rank per category by season — year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 ↗ | Master | #1148 (60 pts) | #1221 (60 pts) | #1293 (60 pts) | #1190 (60 pts) | #1190 (60 pts) |