#4015 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1482
No shared contest yet.
6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Bottoms Up Smokers's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headBottoms Up Smokers
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1482
peak 1482 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2024-07-12
latest 2025-09-12
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 81%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 163.40 · weakest Brisket (158.89)
Road miles
20
mi across 2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$50K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Master avg
648.56 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
321.10 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 0 GCs
Master and Backyard overall scores sit on different scales (Master is out of 720, Backyard out of 360), so they're kept separate — averaging them together would be misleading.
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
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.
Bottoms Up Smokers 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 117 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.
#4029 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1482
No shared contest yet.
Level with Bottoms Up Smokers on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#4010 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1483
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2015, 9 years before Bottoms Up Smokers's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#4019 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1482
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#4025 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1482
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 4 years before Bottoms Up Smokers's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#4002 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1503
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 6 years before Bottoms Up Smokers's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 164.5372 | 162.2628 | 163.40 | top 75% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 166.8456 | 156.5600 | 161.70 | top 77% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.5600 | 160.5600 | 160.56 | top 82% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.8916 | 158.8916 | 158.89 | top 66% |
“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 contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 90% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 73% |
The story so far (17 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1.2 yrs
2024-07-12 → 2025-09-12
Busiest season
2025
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
TX
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 163.40 · weakest Brisket (158.89)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 1 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
50%
1 of 2 contests
Master average
648.56
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Backyard average
321.10
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
96
26–74 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
20
2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$50,000
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
1.2 yrs
2024-07-12 → 2025-09-12
Power rating
1482
peak 1482 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2024
- First tracked contest NSDDF presents the Inaugural Baylor Backyard BBQ Bash (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First call NSDDF presents the Inaugural Baylor Backyard BBQ Bash (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall top-10 NSDDF presents the Inaugural Baylor Backyard BBQ Bash (BACKYARD ONLY)
- 2025
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score648.5600 Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff
- Career-best overall score648.5600 Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)166.8456 Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff
- Most recent contest Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 73% | 90.1% | 90.1% |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 90% | 89.2% | 89.2% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-12 | Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff 🏅 Waller, TX | 67 / 92 (648.5600) | 64 (162.2628) | 49 (166.8456) | 75 (160.5600) | 61 (158.8916) |
| 2024-07-12 | NSDDF presents the Inaugural Baylor Backyard BBQ Bash (BACKYARD ONLY) Tomball, TX | 9 / 10 (321.0972) | 8 (164.5372) | 10 (156.5600) | — | — |