#4029 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-headPapa Smoke's BBQ
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
2013-07-19
latest 2014-07-25
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 82%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 161.74 · weakest Brisket (140.55)
Road miles
2
mi across 2 mapped stops
Master avg
607.70 / 720
2 Master contests · 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.
Papa Smoke's BBQ 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 109 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.
#4046 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1482
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 6 years after Papa Smoke's BBQ did, first appearing in 2019.
⚔ Head-to-head#4040 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1482
No shared contest yet.
Level with Papa Smoke's BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#4025 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#4035 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1503
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#4048 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.7600 | 161.7256 | 161.74 | top 53% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.8344 | 140.0000 | 149.42 | top 76% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.2740 | 153.6912 | 155.98 | top 78% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 149.6800 | 131.4288 | 140.55 | top 86% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 100% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 64% |
The story so far (14 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1 yrs
2013-07-19 → 2014-07-25
Busiest season
2014
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
MI
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 161.74 · weakest Brisket (140.55)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 2 contests
Master average
607.70
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
68
20–72 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
2
2 mapped stops
Longest layoff
1 yrs
2013-07-19 → 2014-07-25
Power rating
1482
peak 1482 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2013
- First tracked contest Taste of Grand Rapids
- 2014
- Career-best overall score623.9656 Taste of Grand Rapids 2014
- Career-best single call (Chicken)161.7600 Taste of Grand Rapids 2014
- Most recent contest Taste of Grand Rapids 2014
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 64% | 86.7% | 86.7% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 100% | 82.1% | 82.1% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-07-25 | Taste of Grand Rapids 2014 Grand Rapids, MI | 35 / 55 (623.9656) | 22 (161.7600) | 29 (158.8344) | 45 (153.6912) | 42 (149.6800) |
| 2013-07-19 | Taste of Grand Rapids Comstock Park, MI | 39 / 39 (591.4284) | 26 (161.7256) | 39 (140.0000) | 29 (158.2740) | 37 (131.4288) |