This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
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.
Smokin Devil Dogs 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 95 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.
2 contests in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Smokin Devil Dogs has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2020, 5 years before Smokin Devil Dogs's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2013, 11 years before Smokin Devil Dogs's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Smokin Devil Dogs on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2022, 3 years before Smokin Devil Dogs's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 161.7144 | 149.7028 | 155.71 | top 27% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 153.7028 | 150.8228 | 152.26 | top 30% |
| Pork | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
| 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.
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tri-City BBQ Fest | 2 | 8 | 0 | top 30% | 2025-09-19 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 31% | 84.3% | 84.3% |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 30% | 86.8% | 86.8% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-19 | Tri-City BBQ Fest 🏅 Denison, IA | 8 / 26 (303.4056) | 7 (149.7028) | 8 (153.7028) | — | — |
| 2024-09-20 | Tri City BBQ Fest 🏅 Denison, IA | 9 / 30 (312.5372) | 8 (161.7144) | 9 (150.8228) | — | — |