High-water mark
685.0968
career-best overall
95.2% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 685.0968 at Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff — 95.2% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- Sep 12, 2025
Full Belly Smokers
Full Belly Smokers is a competition barbecue team with 5 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2025 and 2026. Their best overall finish is 11th of 92 at the Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff (2025). They finished #835 in the 2025 Master Series Team of the Year standings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1530
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 31 invitational or side-series contest not counted
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
Sep 12, 2025
latest Sep 30, 2026 · 1 year on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
0% of 5 contests
Avg finish
top 35%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
40%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±2.73
spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 174.99 · weakest Chicken (166.84)
Road miles
633
across 5 mapped stops · furthest 632 mi
Schedule strength
39%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1551)
Purse competed for
$214K
listed at 5 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
682.37 / 720
4 Master contests · 0 GCs
Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to Full Belly Smokers, each with one reason worth a look.
Full Belly Smokers has 3 rated contests, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 77 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#2,249 of the rated field
- Contests
- 8
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 38%
- Peak
- 1529
2–0 in 2 shared contests (100% to Full Belly Smokers)
2 contests in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Full Belly Smokers has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head#2,233 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 67%
- Peak
- 1540
Careers of much the same size, 6 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#2,253 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1529
Their last contest in the data was back in 2023, 3 years before Full Belly Smokers's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#2,243 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 14%
- Peak
- 1530
They were already cooking in 2013, 12 years before Full Belly Smokers's first contest.
⚔ Compare careers#2,244 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1530
Level with Full Belly Smokers on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#2,226 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1530
Their last contest in the data was back in 2014, 12 years before Full Belly Smokers's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careersBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 173.7144 | 163.4400 | 166.84 | top 62% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 173.1428 | 167.9656 | 169.70 | top 52% |
| Pork | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 177.7028 | 170.2744 | 174.99 | top 22% |
| Brisket | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 173.1084 | 169.1544 | 170.84 | top 33% |
“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.
By field size and state
More numbers
Busiest season
2026
4 contests
Contests a season
2.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
KS
3 of 5 contests · 2 states in all
Contests visited
4
a different one every time
Opponents faced
473
finished ahead 412 times, behind 269
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20263 milestones
- Career-best single call (Pork)177.7028 Danny Dietz Memorial World Championship Cookoff
- Peak power rating (1530) American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest
- Most recent contest American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest
20254 milestones
- First tracked contest Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff
- First call Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score685.0968 Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff
- Career-best overall score685.0968 Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +13.9 | Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff | Sep 12, 2025 |
| +8.9 | Danny Dietz Memorial World Championship Cookoff | Sep 11, 2026 |
| +6.6 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest | Sep 30, 2026 |
Scores over time (% of a perfect score — tap a meat to add it)
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25% | top 43% | 95.1% | 94.6% |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 12% | 95.2% | 95.2% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 30, 2026 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest unrated Kansas City, KS | 106 / 158 (679.2912) | 131 (166.2400) | 123 (167.9656) | 37 (175.4056) | 101 (169.6800) |
| Sep 30, 2026 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest Kansas City, KS | 138 / 360 (685.0628) | 98 (173.7144) | 238 (167.9656) | 181 (170.2744) | 101 (173.1084) |
| Sep 30, 2026 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Sides Kansas City, KS | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sep 11, 2026 | Danny Dietz Memorial World Championship Cookoff 🏅 Waller, TX | 18 / 75 (680.0116) | 54 (163.4400) | 33 (169.7144) | 4 (177.7028) | 20 (169.1544) |
| Sep 12, 2025 | Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff 🏅 Waller, TX | 11 / 92 (685.0968) | 59 (163.9656) | 18 (173.1428) | 8 (176.5828) | 14 (171.4056) |
An unrated contest — an invitational, or a Competitor or Kosher Series board — is in the record but doesn’t move the power rating.