#3506 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1493
No shared contest yet.
5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Smokey Blue Bar BQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headSmokey Blue Bar BQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1493
peak 1493 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
1
in the data
First seen
2025-10-24
latest 2025-10-24
Best ToY finish
#1404
Master 2025
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 1 contests
Avg finish
top 82%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 164.55 · weakest Pork Ribs (151.43)
Purse competed for
$13K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Master avg
626.24 / 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.
Smokey Blue Bar BQ 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 128 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.
#3491 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1503
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2020, 5 years before Smokey Blue Bar BQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3496 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 7 years before Smokey Blue Bar BQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3522 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
Level with Smokey Blue Bar BQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3494 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1513
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 8 years before Smokey Blue Bar BQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3523 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1509
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2016, 9 years before Smokey Blue Bar BQ'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 | 154.2860 | 154.2860 | 154.29 | top 91% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 151.4288 | 151.4288 | 151.43 | top 91% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164.5484 | 164.5484 | 164.55 | top 73% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.9772 | 155.9772 | 155.98 | top 82% |
“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
LA
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 164.55 · weakest Pork Ribs (151.43)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 1 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 1 contests
Master average
626.24
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
32
6–26 across every shared overall standing
Purse competed for
$13,400
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Power rating
1493
peak 1493 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2025
- First tracked contest VPD Back the Blue BBQ Competition
- Career-best overall score626.2404 VPD Back the Blue BBQ Competition
- Career-best single call (Pork)164.5484 VPD Back the Blue BBQ Competition
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 82% | 87% | 87% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-24 | VPD Back the Blue BBQ Competition 🏅 Vidalia, LA | 27 / 33 (626.2404) | 30 (154.2860) | 30 (151.4288) | 24 (164.5484) | 27 (155.9772) |
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 | #1404 (58 pts) | #1441 (58 pts) | #1506 (58 pts) | #1179 (63 pts) | #1422 (58 pts) |