A tough matchup
3–0
behind in the head-to-head
Can Country Outlaw BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings
Can Country Outlaw BBQ has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
Johnny's Smoke Show
Johnny's Smoke Show is a competition barbecue team with 5 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record in 2025. Their best overall finish is 15th of 16 at the Rollin Smoke at Rustic Timbers BBQ Bash (2025). They finished #363 in the 2025 Backyard Series Team of the Year standings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1461
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 4
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
Jun 27, 2025
latest Sep 26, 2025
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
0% of 5 contests
Avg finish
top 92%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
20%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±64.94
spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Brisket
avg 158.08 · weakest Chicken (123.13)
Road miles
8,571
across 5 mapped stops · furthest 4,053 mi
Schedule strength
70%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1588)
Purse competed for
$19K
listed at 4 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 3 state-championship entries
Master avg
585.62 / 720
3 Master contests · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
302.21 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 0 GCs
These overall scores sit on different scales (Master 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.
Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to Johnny's Smoke Show, each with one reason worth a look.
Johnny's Smoke Show has 4 rated contests, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 133 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#5,073 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1461
Careers of much the same size, 6 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#5,089 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1461
Level with Johnny's Smoke Show on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#5,075 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1461
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 4 years before Johnny's Smoke Show's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#5,087 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1461
They were already cooking in 2016, 9 years before Johnny's Smoke Show's first contest.
⚔ Compare careers#5,059 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1461
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 8 years before Johnny's Smoke Show's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#5,081 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1461
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 8 years before Johnny's Smoke Show's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careersBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.1200 | 20 | 123.13 | top 90% |
| Pork Ribs | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.2972 | 150.2512 | 157.11 | top 79% |
| Pork | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164.5256 | 147.3828 | 154.05 | top 83% |
| Brisket | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 167.4172 | 147.4172 | 158.08 | top 73% |
“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 field size and state
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 94% |
| Medium (20–39) | 3 | 0 | top 92% |
More numbers
Most contests held in
WI
3 of 5 contests · 2 states in all
Contests visited
4
a different one every time
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
5 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Opponents faced
111
finished ahead 9 times, behind 116
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20256 milestones
- First tracked contest Central Illinois BBQ Throwdown
- Peak power rating (1493) Central Illinois BBQ Throwdown
- First call Rollin Smoke at Rustic Timbers BBQ Bash
- Career-best overall score639.2800 Rollin Smoke at Rustic Timbers BBQ Bash
- Career-best single call (Brisket)167.4172 Rollin Smoke at Rustic Timbers BBQ Bash
- Most recent contest Rollin Smoke at Rustic Timbers BBQ Bash
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -14.8 | Smoke in the North | Aug 22, 2025 |
| -9.2 | Puckaway Pigfest | Sep 5, 2025 |
| -7.8 | Rollin Smoke at Rustic Timbers BBQ Bash | Sep 26, 2025 |
| -7.3 | Central Illinois BBQ Throwdown | Jun 27, 2025 |
Scores over time (% of a perfect score — tap a meat to add it)
Overall finish over time (top-% of field, lower is better)
Where they finish (overall)
Best vs average (by meat)
How entries end (by meat)
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 26, 2025 | Rollin Smoke at Rustic Timbers BBQ Bash 🏅 Egg Harbor, WI | 15 / 16 (639.2800) | 14 (161.1200) | 13 (160.5144) | 16 (150.2284) | 8 (167.4172) |
| Sep 26, 2025 | Rollin Smoke at Rustic Timbers BBQ Bash (ONE MEAT RIBS) Egg Harbor, WI | — | — | 11 (155.3600) | — | — |
| Sep 5, 2025 | Puckaway Pigfest 🏅 Montello, WI | 33 / 35 (623.3376) | 32 (159.4288) | 34 (157.1316) | 34 (147.3828) | 29 (159.3944) |
| Aug 22, 2025 | Smoke in the North Rolfstorp | 31 / 31 (494.2400) | 31 (20) | 17 (162.2972) | 16 (164.5256) | 27 (147.4172) |
| Jun 27, 2025 | Central Illinois BBQ Throwdown 🏅 Eureka, IL | 21 / 26 (302.2056) | 21 (151.9544) | 20 (150.2512) | — | — |