Perfect scores on the board
3
perfect 180s
3 perfect 180s in the data — every judge at the table handing back a nine, all in chicken.
- Chicken ×3
VIRUNUM SMOKERS
VIRUNUM SMOKERS is a competition barbecue team with 9 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2025 and 2026. Their best overall finish is 3rd of 18 at the Wild West Fest on Fire 2026 (2026). They finished #470 in the 2025 Master Series Team of the Year standings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1536
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 4
Contests
9
in the data
First seen
Aug 9, 2025
latest Sep 19, 2026 · 1.1 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
4
5 podiums
Overall top-10s
3
33% of 9 contests
Best top-10 run
3
straight overall top-10s
Avg finish
top 30%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
3 🔥
Walk rate
78%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±8.74
spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 177.25 · weakest Pork Ribs (168.06)
Road miles
537
across 9 mapped stops
Schedule strength
30%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1541)
Master avg
688.65 / 720
4 Master contests · 0 GCs
Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to VIRUNUM SMOKERS, each with one reason worth a look.
VIRUNUM SMOKERS has 4 rated contests, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 76 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#2,085 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 57%
- Peak
- 1541
Careers of much the same size, 7 contests to 9, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#2,082 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 100%
- Peak
- 1539
Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2025.
⚔ Compare careers#2,087 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1536
Level with VIRUNUM SMOKERS on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#2,077 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1536
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 9 years before VIRUNUM SMOKERS's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#2,075 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1536
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 9 years before VIRUNUM SMOKERS's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#2,068 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1536
Their last contest in the data was back in 2016, 10 years before VIRUNUM SMOKERS's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careersBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 5 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 180 🔥 | 170.2512 | 177.25 | top 19% |
| Pork Ribs | 7 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 170.8344 | 164.5372 | 168.06 | top 61% |
| Pork | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 175.4172 | 169.6800 | 172.98 | top 40% |
| Brisket | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 177.1544 | 159.4172 | 169.56 | top 40% |
“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 field size and state
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 2 | 0 | top 27% |
| Medium (20–39) | 2 | 0 | top 33% |
Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wild West Fest on Fire 2026 | 2 | 3 | 0 | top 16% | Aug 8, 2026 |
More numbers
Busiest season
2025
5 contests
Contests a season
4.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Contests visited
3
1 of them more than once
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
7 entries · 0 wins · 4 calls
Opponents faced
50
finished ahead 50 times, behind 17
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20264 milestones
- First multi-meat day Wild West Fest on Fire 2026
- Career-best overall score697.1316 Wild West Fest on Fire 2026
- Peak power rating (1537) Wild West Fest on Fire 2026
- Most recent contest Fo.G & Smoke 2026
20257 milestones
- First tracked contest Wild West Fest on Fire (ONE MEAT RIBS)
- First call Wild West Fest on Fire (ONE MEAT CHICKEN)
- First category win (Chicken) Wild West Fest on Fire (ONE MEAT CHICKEN)
- First overall top-10 Wild West Fest on Fire
- First overall podium Wild West Fest on Fire
- First perfect 180 (Chicken) Wild West Fest on Fire (ONE MEAT CHICKEN)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score697.0744 Wild West Fest on Fire
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +13.7 | Wild West Fest on Fire | Aug 9, 2025 |
| +12.2 | Wild West Fest on Fire 2026 | Aug 8, 2026 |
| +10.6 | Vienna BBQ Days | Oct 18, 2025 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -0.6 | Fo.G & Smoke 2026 | Sep 19, 2026 |
Scores over time (% of a perfect score — tap a meat to add it)
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 100% | top 33% | 96.8% | 95.4% |
| 2025 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 60% | top 26% | 96.8% | 95.9% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 19, 2026 | Fo.G & Smoke 2026 Spilamberto | 11 / 22 (677.0628) | — | 10 (170.8228) | 14 (169.6800) | 16 (159.4172) |
| Aug 8, 2026 | Wild West Fest on Fire 2026 Medvode | 3 / 18 (697.1316) | 1 (180) | 11 (167.4172) | 6 (172.5600) | 1 (177.1544) |
| Aug 7, 2026 | Wild West Fest on Fire 2026 (ONE MEAT CHICKEN) Medvode | — | 2 (176) | — | — | — |
| Aug 7, 2026 | Wild West Fest on Fire 2026 (ONE MEAT RIBS) Medvode | — | — | 9 (168.5256) | — | — |
| Oct 18, 2025 | Vienna BBQ Days Vienna | 4 / 11 (683.3484) | 7 (170.2512) | 6 (167.9772) | 4 (174.2744) | 4 (170.8456) |
| Oct 18, 2025 | Vienna BBQ Days (ONE MEAT RIBS) Vienna | — | — | 14 (164.5372) | — | — |
| Aug 9, 2025 | Wild West Fest on Fire Medvode | 3 / 20 (697.0744) | 1 (180) | 7 (170.8344) | 5 (175.4172) | 9 (170.8228) |
| Aug 9, 2025 | Wild West Fest on Fire (ONE MEAT CHICKEN) Medvode | — | 1 (180) | — | — | — |
| Aug 9, 2025 | Wild West Fest on Fire (ONE MEAT RIBS) Medvode | — | — | 13 (166.2744) | — | — |