Perfect scores on the board
1
perfect 180s
1 perfect 180 in the data — every judge at the table handing back a nine, all in brisket.
- Brisket ×1
Smoke and Beer team
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1511
peak 1511 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2025-09-12
latest 2025-10-11
Best ToY finish
#537
Master 2025
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
1
2 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 40%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
1 🔥
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 174.87 · weakest Pork Ribs (169.69)
Road miles
391
mi across 2 mapped stops
Master avg
689.66 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs
Still inside their first twelve months: see what a first season usually looks like.
Storylines (4 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.
High-water mark
699.9772
career-best overall
97.2% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 699.9772 at Bulgarian Barbecue Championship — 97.2% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2025-09-12
The one to beat
2×
one call ahead of them
Rusty grill has finished one call ahead of Smoke and Beer team 2 times — their closest competition in the data.
Announced themselves early
3rd
at their very first contest
Finished 3 of 11 at their very first tracked contest, Bulgarian Barbecue Championship (2025-09-12).
- 2025-09-12
- 11-team field
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 and Beer team 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 95 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.
#2797 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1519
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2795 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2019, 6 years before Smoke and Beer team's first contest.
⚔ 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 and Beer team'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.
Level with Smoke and Beer team on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ 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 and Beer team's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2785 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1515
No shared contest yet.
6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Smoke and Beer team's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 176.0116 | 173.7256 | 174.87 | top 35% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 171.9772 | 167.3944 | 169.69 | top 60% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 178.8572 | 162.8228 | 170.84 | top 47% |
| Brisket | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 180.0000 🔥 | 168.5372 | 174.27 | top 19% |
“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 27% |
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 52% |
The story so far (12 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0.1 yrs
2025-09-12 → 2025-10-11
Busiest season
2025
2 contests
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 2 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 174.87 · weakest Pork Ribs (169.69)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 2 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
50%
1 of 2 contests
Master average
689.66
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Perfect 180s
1
every judge at the table handing back a nine
Opponents faced
26
18–12 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
391
2 mapped stops
Power rating
1511
peak 1511 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2025
- First tracked contest Bulgarian Barbecue Championship
- First call Bulgarian Barbecue Championship
- First category win (Brisket) Bulgarian Barbecue Championship
- First overall top-10 Bulgarian Barbecue Championship
- First overall podium Bulgarian Barbecue Championship
- First perfect 180 (Brisket) Bulgarian Barbecue Championship
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score699.9772 Bulgarian Barbecue Championship
- Career-best overall score699.9772 Bulgarian Barbecue Championship
- Most recent contest V. I Love Smoky Exhibition and BBQ Competition
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 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 100% | top 40% | 97.2% | 95.8% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-11 | V. I Love Smoky Exhibition and BBQ Competition Szerencs, 3900 | 11 / 21 (679.3488) | 7 (176.0116) | 10 (171.9772) | 16 (162.8228) | 6 (168.5372) |
| 2025-09-12 | Bulgarian Barbecue Championship Sofia, 1000 | 3 / 11 (699.9772) | 4 (173.7256) | 8 (167.3944) | 2 (178.8572) | 1 (180.0000) |
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 | #537 (327 pts) | #576 (337 pts) | #720 (252 pts) | #555 (327 pts) | #481 (422 pts) |