#3573 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1491
No shared contest yet.
5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Bell's Up In Smoke BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headBell's Up In Smoke BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1491
peak 1491 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
1
in the data
First seen
2025-08-22
latest 2025-08-22
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 1 contests
Avg finish
top 90%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 151.43 · weakest Pork Ribs (149.07)
Purse competed for
$5K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
Backyard avg
300.50 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 0 GCs
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.
Bell's Up In Smoke BBQ has 1 rated contest — 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 141 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.
#3574 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
Level with Bell's Up In Smoke BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3610 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
6 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Bell's Up In Smoke BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head#3609 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1491
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2022, 3 years before Bell's Up In Smoke BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3618 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1491
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2015, 10 years before Bell's Up In Smoke BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3590 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1491
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2020, 5 years before Bell's Up In Smoke BBQ'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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 151.4288 | 151.4288 | 151.43 | top 94% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 149.0744 | 149.0744 | 149.07 | top 87% |
| 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.
The story so far (12 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0 yrs
2025-08-22 → 2025-08-22
Busiest season
2025
1 contest
Cooks most in
IL
1 of 1 contests
Contests visited
1
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
1 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 151.43 · weakest Pork Ribs (149.07)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 1 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 1 contests
Backyard average
300.50
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
30
3–27 across every shared overall standing
Purse competed for
$5,000
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
Power rating
1491
peak 1491 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2025
- First tracked contest Up in Smoke on the Square (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best overall score300.5032 Up in Smoke on the Square (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best single call (Chicken)151.4288 Up in Smoke on the Square (BACKYARD ONLY)
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 90% | 83.5% | 83.5% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-08-22 | Up in Smoke on the Square (BACKYARD ONLY) Lincoln, IL | 28 / 31 (300.5032) | 29 (151.4288) | 27 (149.0744) | — | — |