#2637 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1515
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-headThe Smokin Chief
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1515
peak 1515 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
6
in the data
First seen
2014-09-19
latest 2014-09-19
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
1
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 6 contests
Avg finish
top 5%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
17%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 177.70 · weakest Pork (165.70)
Road miles
306
mi across 6 mapped stops · furthest 68 mi
Master avg
340.56 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
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.
The Smokin Chief 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 85 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.
#2648 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1515
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 8 years after The Smokin Chief did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-head#2642 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
Level with The Smokin Chief on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2646 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1518
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#2645 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1515
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#2635 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1519
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 6 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 177.7028 | 177.7028 | 177.70 | top 2% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.5944 | 168.5944 | 168.59 | top 29% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.7028 | 165.7028 | 165.70 | top 45% |
| 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.
The story so far (13 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0 yrs
2014-09-19 → 2014-09-19
Busiest season
2014
5 contests
Contests a season
3
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
AL
4 of 6 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
1
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
1 entries · 1 win · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 177.70 · weakest Pork (165.70)
Walk rate
17%
a top-10 call in 1 of 6 contests
Overall top-10 rate
17%
1 of 6 contests
Master average
340.56
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
128
121–6 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
306
6 mapped stops · furthest 68 mi
Power rating
1515
peak 1515 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2014
- First tracked contest Smoke on the Falls Noccalula BBQ Fest
- First overall top-10 20th Annual Decatur Jaycee's Riverfest
- Career-best overall score340.5600 20th Annual Decatur Jaycee's Riverfest
- First call Jack Daniel's World Championship Backyard Contest (BACKYARD)
- First category win (Chicken) Jack Daniel's World Championship Backyard Contest (BACKYARD)
- Career-best single call (Chicken)177.7028 Jack Daniel's World Championship Backyard Contest (BACKYARD)
- 2015
- Most recent contest Smoke on the Falls
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 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2014 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 20% | top 5% | 47.3% | 47.3% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-04-10 | Smoke on the Falls Gadsden, AL | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2014-10-24 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Backyard Contest (BACKYARD) Lynchburg, TN | — | 1 (177.7028) | 12 (168.5944) | 19 (165.7028) | — |
| 2014-09-19 | 20th Annual Decatur Jaycee's Riverfest Decatur, AL | 4 / 75 (340.5600) | — | — | — | — |
| 2014-05-16 | Cotton Pickin' BBQ Cookoff Hartselle, AL | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2014-04-18 | High on the Hog Festival Winchester, TN | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2014-04-11 | Smoke on the Falls Noccalula BBQ Fest Gadsden, AL | — | — | — | — | — |