Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
94.4% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 679.3488 at Smokin On Big Creek BBQ Contest Benefiting Operation BBQ Relief(Judges Full) — 94.4% of a perfect 720.
SMOKIN BAD HABIT ahead in 80% of their meetings
SMOKIN BAD HABIT has come out ahead in 4 of their 5 shared contests.
Brisket is where the weekend gets away from them — it averages 13.44 points below their pork, and turns into a call 17% of the time against 17%.
Ahead in 75% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of LIL' FIDDLER'S in 3 of their 4 shared contests.
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.
81 rated teams sit within a point of this rating, so a place on this list means the numbers match — no more than that.
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Our Butt's Insured has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headCareers of much the same size, 6 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2013.
⚔ Head-to-head3 straight overall top-10s says this rating is a moving target.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Our Butt's Insured on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headCareers of much the same size, 5 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head| Opponent | Meetings | Ahead | Behind | Win rate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IHC BBQ | 6 | 4 | 2 | 67% | ⚔ compare |
| HUNKA HUNKA BURNIN' RUB | 5 | 2 | 3 | 40% | ⚔ compare |
| LOVE 2 Q | 5 | 2 | 3 | 40% | ⚔ compare |
| Theslabs.com | 5 | 2 | 3 | 40% | ⚔ compare |
| NICKLE BOYS BBQ | 5 | 2 | 3 | 40% | ⚔ compare |
| SMOKIN BAD HABIT | 5 | 1 | 4 | 20% | ⚔ compare |
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 174.2744 | 165.0972 | 169.03 | top 27% |
| Pork Ribs | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.1200 | 157.1316 | 164.67 | top 42% |
| Pork | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 174.2972 | 161.7144 | 169.14 | top 26% |
| Brisket | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 170.8916 | 142.2744 | 155.71 | top 61% |
“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.
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +12.8 | Smokin On Big Creek BBQ Contest Benefiting Operation BBQ Relief(Judges Full) | 2015-04-03 |
| +6 | Smokin on the Summit | 2014-06-06 |
| +5.7 | Wheels 'N' Squeels BBQ Challenge | 2013-08-01 |
| +5.6 | Wheels 'N' Squeels BBQ Challenge | 2014-08-01 |
| +4.3 | Smokin' On Big Creek | 2013-04-05 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -2.6 | Smokin On Big Creek - Benefiting Operation BBQ Relief | 2014-04-04 |
| 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 17% | 94.4% | 94.4% |
| 2014 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33% | top 44% | 91.6% | 90.4% |
| 2013 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 36% | 91.8% | 91.5% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-04-03 | Smokin On Big Creek BBQ Contest Benefiting Operation BBQ Relief(Judges Full) Pleasant Hill, MO | 12 / 71 (679.3488) | 9 (174.2744) | 19 (169.1200) | 21 (170.8344) | 27 (165.1200) |
| 2014-08-01 | Wheels 'N' Squeels BBQ Challenge Olathe, KS | 25 / 70 (659.4404) | 38 (165.0972) | 44 (161.7372) | 45 (161.7144) | 6 (170.8916) |
| 2014-06-06 | Smokin on the Summit Lee's Summit, MO | 26 / 79 (653.6916) | 21 (165.1316) | 32 (164.0116) | 13 (168.0000) | 39 (156.5484) |
| 2014-04-04 | Smokin On Big Creek - Benefiting Operation BBQ Relief Pleasant Hill, MO | 48 / 75 (640.5260) | 16 (170.8228) | 55 (157.1316) | 12 (170.2972) | 72 (142.2744) |
| 2013-08-01 | Wheels 'N' Squeels BBQ Challenge Olathe, KS | 25 / 74 (661.1200) | 6 (173.7028) | 22 (168.0000) | 4 (174.2972) | 69 (145.1200) |
| 2013-04-05 | Smokin' On Big Creek Pleasant Hill, MO | 28 / 74 (657.1430) | 30 (165.1430) | 16 (168.0002) | 16 (169.7142) | 62 (154.2856) |