High-water mark
680.5256
career-best overall
94.5% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 680.5256 at Mississippi Springfest BBQ Contest — 94.5% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2015-05-08
First Class Smokers
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1507
peak 1507 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2014-05-09
latest 2015-05-08
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 49%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 169.12 · weakest Brisket (165.12)
Road miles
0
mi across 2 mapped stops
Master avg
667.94 / 720
2 Master contests · 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.
First Class Smokers 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 112 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.
#2955 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2937 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1508
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 6 years after First Class Smokers did, first appearing in 2020.
⚔ Head-to-head#2967 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
Level with First Class Smokers on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2946 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1511
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2952 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2966 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.7028 | 160.5488 | 165.13 | top 62% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 175.4400 | 161.7028 | 168.57 | top 34% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 171.4172 | 166.8228 | 169.12 | top 40% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2744 | 163.9656 | 165.12 | top 63% |
“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 (13 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1 yrs
2014-05-09 → 2015-05-08
Busiest season
2015
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
MS
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 169.12 · weakest Brisket (165.12)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 1 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
50%
1 of 2 contests
Master average
667.94
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
43
29–23 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
0
2 mapped stops
Power rating
1507
peak 1507 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2014
- First tracked contest Mississippi Springfest
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score655.3488 Mississippi Springfest
- 2015
- First call Mississippi Springfest BBQ Contest
- First overall top-10 Mississippi Springfest BBQ Contest
- Career-best overall score680.5256 Mississippi Springfest BBQ Contest
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)175.4400 Mississippi Springfest BBQ Contest
- Most recent contest Mississippi Springfest BBQ Contest
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 32% | 94.5% | 94.5% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 65% | 91% | 91% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-05-08 | Mississippi Springfest BBQ Contest Ashland, MS | 10 / 31 (680.5256) | 14 (169.7028) | 5 (175.4400) | 10 (171.4172) | 20 (163.9656) |
| 2014-05-09 | Mississippi Springfest Ashland, MS | 15 / 23 (655.3488) | 18 (160.5488) | 12 (161.7028) | 11 (166.8228) | 14 (166.2744) |