High-water mark
666.2516
career-best overall
92.5% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 666.2516 at Illinois BBQ Fest at Hillcrest Event Center — 92.5% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2015-07-25
Midnight Smoker
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1507
peak 1507 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
1
in the data
First seen
2015-07-25
latest 2015-07-25
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 1 contests
Avg finish
top 40%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 171.44 · weakest Chicken (163.95)
Master avg
666.25 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
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.
Midnight Smoker has 1 rated contest — 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 114 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.
#2901 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1515
No shared contest yet.
5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Midnight Smoker's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head#2919 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
Level with Midnight Smoker on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2903 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1513
No shared contest yet.
5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Midnight Smoker's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head#2937 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1508
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 5 years after Midnight Smoker did, first appearing in 2020.
⚔ Head-to-head#2906 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 50%
- Peak
- 1527
No shared contest yet.
6 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Midnight Smoker's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head#2924 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1519
No shared contest yet.
5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Midnight Smoker's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 163.9544 | 163.9544 | 163.95 | top 47% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 166.2744 | 166.2744 | 166.27 | top 33% |
| Pork | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 171.4400 | 171.4400 | 171.44 | top 33% |
| Brisket | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 164.5828 | 164.5828 | 164.58 | top 60% |
“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 (11 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0 yrs
2015-07-25 → 2015-07-25
Busiest season
2015
1 contest
Cooks most in
IL
1 of 1 contests
Contests visited
1
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
1 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 171.44 · weakest Chicken (163.95)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 1 of 1 contests
Overall top-10 rate
100%
1 of 1 contests
Master average
666.25
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
14
9–5 across every shared overall standing
Power rating
1507
peak 1507 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2015
- First tracked contest Illinois BBQ Fest at Hillcrest Event Center
- First call Illinois BBQ Fest at Hillcrest Event Center
- First overall top-10 Illinois BBQ Fest at Hillcrest Event Center
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score666.2516 Illinois BBQ Fest at Hillcrest Event Center
- Career-best overall score666.2516 Illinois BBQ Fest at Hillcrest Event Center
- Career-best single call (Pork)171.4400 Illinois BBQ Fest at Hillcrest Event Center
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 40% | 92.5% | 92.5% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-07-25 | Illinois BBQ Fest at Hillcrest Event Center Orion, IL | 6 / 15 (666.2516) | 7 (163.9544) | 5 (166.2744) | 5 (171.4400) | 9 (164.5828) |