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 pork.
- Pork ×1
Jack's Smokey BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1498
peak 1509 · rated over 4 contests ⓘ
Contests
6
in the data
First seen
2025-05-10
latest 2025-10-11
Best ToY finish
#378
Master 2025
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
2
4 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
of 6 contests
Avg finish
top 57%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
1 🔥
Current form
674.91
last 4 Master vs avg 674.91 (+0.00)
Walk rate
83%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±9.68
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 172.89 · weakest Brisket (159.24)
Road miles
1,375
mi across 6 mapped stops
Schedule strength
10%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1514)
Master avg
674.91 / 720
4 Master contests · 0 GCs
Storylines (5 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.
Signature meat
40%
chicken entries won
2 wins from 5 entries
When chicken is on the table, watch out — they've won it in 40% of their entries (2 of 5).
- best 178.8572
- average 172.89
- 3 calls
High-water mark
689.0516
career-best overall
95.7% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 689.0516 at Transylvanian Grill & BBQ Camp — 95.7% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2025-05-10
A tough matchup
4–0
behind in the head-to-head
Szendo Smoke BBQ Team ahead in 100% of their meetings
Szendo Smoke BBQ Team has come out ahead in 4 of their 4 shared contests.
Announced themselves early
3rd
at their very first contest
Finished 3 of 10 at their very first tracked contest, Transylvanian Grill & BBQ Camp (2025-05-10).
- 2025-05-10
- 10-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.
Jack's Smokey BBQ has 4 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 121 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.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#3295 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2015, 10 years before Jack's Smokey BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3261 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1499
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2022, 3 years before Jack's Smokey BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3285 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
Level with Jack's Smokey BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ 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 Jack's Smokey BBQ'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 Jack's Smokey BBQ'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 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 178.8572 | 165.6800 | 172.89 | top 40% |
| Pork Ribs | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 175.4288 | 160.5488 | 169.82 | top 52% |
| Pork | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 180.0000 🔥 | 166.2628 | 171.12 | top 50% |
| Brisket | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 160.5716 | 157.0744 | 159.24 | top 75% |
“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) | 2 | 0 | top 38% |
| Medium (20–39) | 2 | 0 | top 75% |
The story so far (13 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0.4 yrs
2025-05-10 → 2025-10-11
Busiest season
2025
6 contests
Contests visited
4
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
5 entries · 2 wins · 3 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 172.89 · weakest Brisket (159.24)
Walk rate
83%
a top-10 call in 5 of 6 contests
Overall top-10 rate
33%
2 of 6 contests
Master average
674.91
out of 720 · 4 contests · 0 GCs
Perfect 180s
1
every judge at the table handing back a nine
Opponents faced
43
23–35 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
1,375
6 mapped stops
Schedule strength
1514
average field rating faced — tougher than 10% of rated contests
Power rating
1498
peak 1509 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2025
- First tracked contest Transylvanian Grill & BBQ Camp
- First call Transylvanian Grill & BBQ Camp
- First category win (Chicken) Transylvanian Grill & BBQ Camp
- First overall top-10 Transylvanian Grill & BBQ Camp
- First overall podium Transylvanian Grill & BBQ Camp
- First perfect 180 (Pork) Transylvanian Grill & BBQ Camp
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score689.0516 Transylvanian Grill & BBQ Camp
- Career-best overall score689.0516 Transylvanian Grill & BBQ Camp
- Peak power rating (1509) Transylvanian Grill & BBQ Camp
- Most recent contest V. I Love Smoky Exhibition and BBQ Competition
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +8.6 | Transylvanian Grill & BBQ Camp | 2025-05-10 |
| +3.1 | Bulgarian Barbecue Championship | 2025-09-12 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -8.3 | V. I Love Smoky Exhibition and BBQ Competition | 2025-10-11 |
| -5.2 | Wild West Fest on Fire | 2025-08-09 |
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 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 83% | top 57% | 95.7% | 93.7% |
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 | 17 / 21 (663.8632) | 6 (176.5600) | 20 (160.5488) | 10 (169.6800) | 21 (157.0744) |
| 2025-09-12 | Bulgarian Barbecue Championship Sofia, 1000 | 5 / 11 (678.2516) | 1 (177.1428) | 4 (174.2744) | 8 (166.2628) | 6 (160.5716) |
| 2025-08-09 | Wild West Fest on Fire Medvode, 1215 | 14 / 20 (668.4576) | 15 (165.6800) | 3 (175.4288) | 12 (168.5372) | 15 (158.8116) |
| 2025-08-09 | Wild West Fest on Fire (ONE MEAT CHICKEN) Medvode, 1215 | — | 15 (166.2284) | — | — | — |
| 2025-08-09 | Wild West Fest on Fire (ONE MEAT RIBS) Medvode, 1215 | — | — | 10 (169.1544) | — | — |
| 2025-05-10 | Transylvanian Grill & BBQ Camp Targu Mures, 540088 | 3 / 10 (689.0516) | 1 (178.8572) | 6 (169.6800) | 2 (180.0000) | 7 (160.5144) |
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 | #378 (557 pts) | #258 (871 pts) | #351 (746 pts) | #377 (597 pts) | #462 (452 pts) |