Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
92.6% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 666.7768 at Smokin the Valley Blueberry Festival and Bar-B-Que Cook-Off — 92.6% of a perfect 720.
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.
DEADHEAD 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.
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team DEADHEAD SMOKERS 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-headThey turned up 7 years after DEADHEAD SMOKERS did, first appearing in 2020.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with DEADHEAD SMOKERS on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where DEADHEAD SMOKERS's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 174.2856 | 169.1426 | 171.71 | top 17% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.7142 | 161.1200 | 163.42 | top 54% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.1426 | 156.5256 | 158.83 | top 73% |
| Brisket | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 174.8456 | 153.1428 | 163.99 | top 41% |
“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.
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| TN | 1 | 0 | top 45% |
| NC | 1 | 0 | top 41% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 45% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 41% |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 50% | top 43% | 92.6% | 91.4% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-07-19 | Smokin the Valley Blueberry Festival and Bar-B-Que Cook-Off Unicoi, TN | 9 / 20 (666.7768) | 2 (174.2856) | 16 (161.1200) | 17 (156.5256) | 2 (174.8456) |
| 2013-06-14 | Blue Ridge BBQ & Music Festival Tryon, NC | 40 / 97 (649.1422) | 24 (169.1426) | 27 (165.7142) | 59 (161.1426) | 69 (153.1428) |