#4293 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1477
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headValley Oak Smoke
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1477
peak 1477 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2024-10-11
latest 2025-10-10
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 119%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Brisket
avg 157.12 · weakest Pork (20.00)
Road miles
0
mi across 2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$25K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
489.06 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
273.09 / 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.
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.
Valley Oak 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 145 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.
#4308 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1476
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2014, 10 years before Valley Oak Smoke's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#4309 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1476
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 4 years before Valley Oak Smoke's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#4274 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1503
No shared contest yet.
Level with Valley Oak Smoke on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#4303 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1476
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 6 years before Valley Oak Smoke's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#4281 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1477
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 6 years before Valley Oak 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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.3944 | 140.5028 | 153.95 | top 105% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 144.5488 | 132.5828 | 138.57 | top 119% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20.0000 | 20.0000 | 20.00 | top 100% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.1200 | 157.1200 | 157.12 | top 76% |
“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.
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MD State BBQ Bash | 2 | 29 | 0 | top 119% | 2025-10-10 |
The story so far (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1 yrs
2024-10-11 → 2025-10-10
Busiest season
2025
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
MD
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
1
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Brisket
averages 157.12 · weakest Pork (20.00)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 2 contests
Master average
489.06
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Backyard average
273.09
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
93
10–116 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
0
2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$25,000
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Power rating
1477
peak 1477 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2024
- First tracked contest MD State BBQ Bash
- 2025
- Career-best overall score489.0632 MD State BBQ Bash
- Career-best single call (Chicken)167.3944 MD State BBQ Bash
- Most recent contest MD State BBQ Bash
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 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 100% | 67.9% | 67.9% |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 138% | 75.9% | 75.9% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-10 | MD State BBQ Bash 🏅 Bel Air, MD | 29 / 29 (489.0632) | 22 (167.3944) | 29 (144.5488) | 29 (20.0000) | 22 (157.1200) |
| 2024-10-11 | MD State BBQ Bash 🏅 Bel Air, MD | 36 / 26 (273.0856) | 35 (140.5028) | 36 (132.5828) | — | — |