High-water mark
674.1828
career-best overall
93.6% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 674.1828 at The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ — 93.6% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2015-05-01
Smoking Butts and Us
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1507
peak 1507 · rated over 3 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2013-05-03
latest 2015-05-01
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 47%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
660.69
last 3 Master vs avg 660.69 (+0.00)
Walk rate
67%
contests with a top-10 call
Best single call
174.2744
Consistency
±10.92
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 168.94 · weakest Brisket (161.32)
Road miles
2
mi across 3 mapped stops
Schedule strength
15%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1521)
Master avg
660.69 / 720
3 Master contests · 0 GCs
Storylines (3 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.
A tough matchup
3–0
behind in the head-to-head
HIGH ON THE HAWG ahead in 100% of their meetings
HIGH ON THE HAWG has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
A strong matchup
3–0
ahead in the head-to-head
Ahead in 100% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of TEAM HOGWEISER in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
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.
Smoking Butts and Us has 3 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 121 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.
#2941 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
2–0 in 2 shared contests (100% to Smoking Butts and Us)
2 contests in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Smoking Butts and Us has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head#2919 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#2937 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1508
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 7 years after Smoking Butts and Us did, first appearing in 2020.
⚔ Head-to-head#2946 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1511
No shared contest yet.
Level with Smoking Butts and Us on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ 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 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#2924 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1519
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 172.5484 | 163.3828 | 167.79 | top 43% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.4288 | 161.0972 | 162.64 | top 59% |
| Pork | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 174.2744 | 159.9998 | 168.94 | top 32% |
| Brisket | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.9772 | 156.5712 | 161.32 | top 55% |
“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 Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ | 2 | 21 | 0 | top 39% | 2015-05-01 |
The story so far (14 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
2 yrs
2013-05-03 → 2015-05-01
Busiest season
2015
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 3 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
AL
3 of 3 contests
Contests visited
2
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
3 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 168.94 · weakest Brisket (161.32)
Walk rate
67%
a top-10 call in 2 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 3 contests
Master average
660.69
out of 720 · 3 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
111
100–84 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
2
3 mapped stops
Schedule strength
1521
average field rating faced — tougher than 15% of rated contests
Power rating
1507
peak 1507 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2013
- First tracked contest The Whistle Stop Festival & Rocket City BBQ
- 2014
- First call The WhistleStop Festival & Rocket City BBQ (JUDGES SIGN UP STARTS DECEMBER 2, 2013)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score660.4460 The WhistleStop Festival & Rocket City BBQ (JUDGES SIGN UP STARTS DECEMBER 2, 2013)
- Career-best single call (Pork)174.2744 The WhistleStop Festival & Rocket City BBQ (JUDGES SIGN UP STARTS DECEMBER 2, 2013)
- 2015
- Career-best overall score674.1828 The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ
- Peak power rating (1507) The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ
- Most recent contest The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +6.9 | The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ | 2015-05-01 |
| +3.2 | The WhistleStop Festival & Rocket City BBQ (JUDGES SIGN UP STARTS DECEMBER 2, 2013) | 2014-05-02 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -3.1 | The Whistle Stop Festival & Rocket City BBQ | 2013-05-03 |
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 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 33% | 93.6% | 93.6% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 45% | 91.7% | 91.7% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 61% | 89.9% | 89.9% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-05-01 | The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ Huntsville, AL | 21 / 63 (674.1828) | 15 (172.5484) | 46 (161.0972) | 10 (172.5600) | 21 (167.9772) |
| 2014-05-02 | The WhistleStop Festival & Rocket City BBQ (JUDGES SIGN UP STARTS DECEMBER 2, 2013) Huntsville, AL | 28 / 62 (660.4460) | 38 (163.3828) | 35 (163.3828) | 5 (174.2744) | 40 (159.4060) |
| 2013-05-03 | The Whistle Stop Festival & Rocket City BBQ Huntsville, AL | 38 / 62 (647.4282) | 28 (167.4284) | 30 (163.4288) | 45 (159.9998) | 42 (156.5712) |