High-water mark
345.1316
career-best overall
95.9% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 345.1316 at WhistleStop BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) — 95.9% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2025-10-17
Smoke Rings & BBQ Dreams
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1511
peak 1511 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
1
in the data
First seen
2025-10-17
latest 2025-10-17
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 1 contests
Avg finish
top 23%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 175.45 · weakest Chicken (169.68)
Purse competed for
$4K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
Backyard avg
345.13 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here. Still inside their first twelve months: see what a first season usually looks like.
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.
Smoke Rings & BBQ Dreams 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 99 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.
#2813 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 29%
- Peak
- 1535
No shared contest yet.
7 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Smoke Rings & BBQ Dreams's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head#2797 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1519
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2018, 7 years before Smoke Rings & BBQ Dreams's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#2795 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
Level with Smoke Rings & BBQ Dreams on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2799 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1517
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2014, 11 years before Smoke Rings & BBQ Dreams's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2792 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1515
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2014, 11 years before Smoke Rings & BBQ Dreams's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2806 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1518
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2014, 11 years before Smoke Rings & BBQ Dreams'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 | 169.6800 | 169.6800 | 169.68 | top 41% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 175.4516 | 175.4516 | 175.45 | top 13% |
| Pork | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
| Brisket | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
“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 (12 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0 yrs
2025-10-17 → 2025-10-17
Busiest season
2025
1 contest
Cooks most in
AL
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 Ribs
averages 175.45 · weakest Chicken (169.68)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 1 of 1 contests
Overall top-10 rate
100%
1 of 1 contests
Backyard average
345.13
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
38
30–8 across every shared overall standing
Purse competed for
$4,300
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
Power rating
1511
peak 1511 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2025
- First tracked contest WhistleStop BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First call WhistleStop BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall top-10 WhistleStop BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score345.1316 WhistleStop BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best overall score345.1316 WhistleStop BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)175.4516 WhistleStop BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
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 23% | 95.9% | 95.9% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-17 | WhistleStop BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Huntsville, AL | 9 / 39 (345.1316) | 16 (169.6800) | 5 (175.4516) | — | — |