Happy hunting ground
Top 15%
average finish here
The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival is their spot: an average finish in the top 15% across 2 visits.
- 2 visits
- best finish 2nd
- average top 15%
Smoke Street BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1523
peak 1523 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2022-10-07
latest 2025-10-03
Grand champs
0
1 reserve
Category wins
1
3 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 15%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Top-10 streak
2
and counting
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 170.85 · weakest Chicken (152.26)
Road miles
0
mi across 2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$30K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
323.10 / 360
2 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Storylines (2 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.
High-water mark
340.0228
career-best overall
94.5% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 340.0228 at The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival — 94.5% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2025-10-03
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 Street BBQ 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 100 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.
#2399 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1523
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2405 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1523
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2016, 9 years before Smoke Street BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2403 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1523
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2013, 9 years before Smoke Street BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#2404 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1532
No shared contest yet.
Level with Smoke Street BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2388 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 50%
- Peak
- 1541
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 4 years before Smoke Street BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2397 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1523
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 8 years before Smoke Street 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 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 164.5828 | 139.9312 | 152.26 | top 15% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 175.4400 | 166.2516 | 170.85 | top 5% |
| Pork | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
| Brisket | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival | 2 | 2 | 0 | top 15% | 2025-10-03 |
The story so far (17 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
3 yrs
2022-10-07 → 2025-10-03
Busiest season
2025
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
GA
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
1
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 2 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 170.85 · weakest Chicken (152.26)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 2 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
100%
2 of 2 contests
Best top-10 run
2
straight contests — and still running
Backyard average
323.10
out of 360 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
64
60–14 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
0
2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$30,000
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
3 yrs
2022-10-07 → 2025-10-03
Power rating
1523
peak 1523 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2022
- First tracked contest The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival
- First call The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival
- First overall top-10 The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival
- 2025
- First category win (Pork Ribs) The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival
- First overall podium The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival
- First Reserve Championship The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score340.0228 The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival
- Career-best overall score340.0228 The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)175.4400 The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival
- Most recent contest The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival
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 | 1 | 1 | 100% | top 6% | 94.5% | 94.5% |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 23% | 85.1% | 85.1% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-03 | The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival 🏅 Lyons, GA | 2 / 32 (340.0228) | 2 (164.5828) | 1 (175.4400) | — | — |
| 2022-10-07 | The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival 🏅 Lyons, GA | 7 / 30 (306.1828) | 7 (139.9312) | 2 (166.2516) | — | — |