High-water mark
694.2284
career-best overall
96.4% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 694.2284 at Raider Red Meats BBQ & Ribeye Championship — 96.4% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2026-08-21
West Texas Smoke
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1509
peak 1509 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2025-09-12
latest 2026-08-21
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 59%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
33%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Brisket
avg 170.66 · weakest Chicken (166.25)
Road miles
1,558
mi across 3 mapped stops · furthest 762 mi
Purse competed for
$62K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
674.77 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs
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.
West Texas Smoke 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 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.
#2841 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1515
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2020, 6 years before West Texas Smoke's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2857 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1509
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#2843 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1519
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2013, 12 years before West Texas Smoke's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#2852 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1509
No shared contest yet.
Level with West Texas Smoke on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2854 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1509
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 9 years before West Texas Smoke's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2847 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1509
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2016, 10 years before West Texas Smoke'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 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 176.5600 | 160.5028 | 166.25 | top 59% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 173.1200 | 163.4056 | 167.60 | top 63% |
| Pork | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.8228 | 162.8228 | 167.58 | top 61% |
| Brisket | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 175.4400 | 164.5372 | 170.66 | top 33% |
“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 (15 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0.9 yrs
2025-09-12 → 2026-08-21
Busiest season
2025
2 contests
Contests a season
1.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
TX
2 of 3 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
3
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
3 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Brisket
averages 170.66 · weakest Chicken (166.25)
Walk rate
33%
a top-10 call in 1 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
33%
1 of 3 contests
Master average
674.77
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
216
80–150 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
1,558
3 mapped stops · furthest 762 mi
Purse competed for
$61,525
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Power rating
1509
peak 1509 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2025
- First tracked contest Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score655.3144 Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff
- 2026
- First call Raider Red Meats BBQ & Ribeye Championship
- First overall top-10 Raider Red Meats BBQ & Ribeye Championship
- Career-best overall score694.2284 Raider Red Meats BBQ & Ribeye Championship
- Career-best single call (Chicken)176.5600 Raider Red Meats BBQ & Ribeye Championship
- Most recent contest Raider Red Meats BBQ & Ribeye Championship
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 18% | 96.4% | 96.4% |
| 2025 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 79% | 91% | 91% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-21 | Raider Red Meats BBQ & Ribeye Championship 🏅 Lubbock, TX | 9 / 51 (694.2284) | 4 (176.5600) | 19 (173.1200) | 25 (169.1084) | 9 (175.4400) |
| 2025-10-10 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitational Barbecue (Competitor's Series) (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) unrated Lynchburg, TN | 82 / 90 (666.7312) | 88 (160.5028) | 84 (163.4056) | 53 (170.8228) | 34 (172.0000) |
| 2025-09-12 | Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff 🏅 Waller, TX | 62 / 92 (655.3144) | 66 (161.6800) | 53 (166.2744) | 69 (162.8228) | 41 (164.5372) |