The comeback
9.1 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 9.1 years, then back at Roast N Boast (2025-10-17).
- last seen 2016-09-30
- back 2025-10-17
Smokey Bonez
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1498
peak 1498 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2016-09-30
latest 2025-10-17
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 64%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
33%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 165.39 · weakest Brisket (151.30)
Road miles
5
mi across 3 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$6K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Master avg
636.87 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
334.21 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 0 GCs
Master and Backyard overall scores sit on different scales (Master is out of 720, Backyard out of 360), so they're kept separate — averaging them together would be misleading.
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
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.
Smokey Bonez has 2 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 123 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.
#3297 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1514
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#3295 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
Level with Smokey Bonez on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3285 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 7 years before Smokey Bonez's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3288 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1509
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 8 years before Smokey Bonez's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3301 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 8 years before Smokey Bonez's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3296 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 8 years before Smokey Bonez'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 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 169.1084 | 161.6572 | 165.38 | top 62% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 165.6800 | 165.0972 | 165.39 | top 72% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 167.9656 | 158.2284 | 163.10 | top 69% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 151.3024 | 151.3024 | 151.30 | top 89% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 31% |
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 96% |
The story so far (17 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
9 yrs
2016-09-30 → 2025-10-17
Busiest season
2025
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 3 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
MS
3 of 3 contests
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 165.39 · weakest Brisket (151.30)
Walk rate
33%
a top-10 call in 1 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
33%
1 of 3 contests
Master average
636.87
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Backyard average
334.21
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
48
18–31 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
5
3 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$5,500
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
9.1 yrs
2016-09-30 → 2025-10-17
Power rating
1498
peak 1498 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2015
- First tracked contest Roast N' Boast
- 2016
- Career-best overall score636.8680 Roast N Boast BBQ
- 2025
- First call Roast N Boast
- First overall top-10 Roast N Boast
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score334.2056 Roast N Boast
- Career-best single call (Chicken)169.1084 Roast N Boast
- Most recent contest Roast N Boast
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 31% | 92.8% | 92.8% |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 96% | 88.5% | 88.5% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-17 | Roast N Boast 🏅 Columbus, MS | 4 / 13 (334.2056) | 4 (169.1084) | 9 (165.0972) | 6 (167.9656) | — |
| 2016-09-30 | Roast N Boast BBQ Columbus, MS | 26 / 27 (636.8680) | 25 (161.6572) | 20 (165.6800) | 25 (158.2284) | 24 (151.3024) |
| 2015-10-02 | Roast N' Boast Columbus, MS | — | — | — | — | — |