#4166 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1479
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headSMOKE Fx
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1479
peak 1479 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2025-08-22
latest 2025-10-03
Best ToY finish
#342
Backyard 2025
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 103%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 160.54 · weakest Brisket (144.50)
Road miles
135
mi across 2 mapped stops · furthest 135 mi
Purse competed for
$10K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
611.25 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
316.00 / 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.
SMOKE Fx 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 144 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.
#4143 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1479
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2017, 8 years before SMOKE Fx's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#4169 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1479
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2022, 3 years before SMOKE Fx's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#4151 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1503
No shared contest yet.
Level with SMOKE Fx on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#4144 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1479
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 4 years before SMOKE Fx's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#4186 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1479
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 6 years before SMOKE Fx'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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 165.7600 | 152.5372 | 159.15 | top 81% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 153.6688 | 150.2400 | 151.95 | top 105% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.5372 | 160.5372 | 160.54 | top 90% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 144.5028 | 144.5028 | 144.50 | top 100% |
“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 state / province
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| PA | 1 | 0 | top 100% |
| VA | 1 | 0 | top 106% |
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 106% |
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 100% |
The story so far (15 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0.1 yrs
2025-08-22 → 2025-10-03
Busiest season
2025
2 contests
Cooks most in
PA
1 of 2 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 160.54 · weakest Brisket (144.50)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 1 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 2 contests
Master average
611.25
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Backyard average
316.00
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
54
1–61 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
135
2 mapped stops · furthest 135 mi
Purse competed for
$9,950
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Power rating
1479
peak 1479 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2025
- First tracked contest Stoney Creek BBQ Cookoff
- First call Stoney Creek BBQ Cookoff
- Career-best single call (Chicken)165.7600 Stoney Creek BBQ Cookoff
- Career-best overall score611.2460 Keystone Classic BBQ State Championship
- Most recent contest Keystone Classic BBQ State 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 103% | 87.8% | 86.3% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-03 | Keystone Classic BBQ State Championship 🏅 Harrisburg, PA | 30 / 30 (611.2460) | 30 (152.5372) | 29 (153.6688) | 27 (160.5372) | 30 (144.5028) |
| 2025-08-22 | Stoney Creek BBQ Cookoff 🏅 Edinburg, VA | 17 / 16 (316.0000) | 10 (165.7600) | 18 (150.2400) | — | — |
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 ↗ | Backyard | #342 (83 pts) | #302 (118 pts) | #363 (78 pts) | — | — |
| 2025 ↗ | Master | #1440 (55 pts) | #1476 (55 pts) | #1535 (55 pts) | #1451 (55 pts) | #1453 (55 pts) |