- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1504
5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Chief Smokers's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThe 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.
Chief Smokers 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 153 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.
5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Chief Smokers's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 12 years after Chief Smokers did, first appearing in 2025.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Chief Smokers on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Chief Smokers's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Chief Smokers's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Chief Smokers's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 156.0000 | 156.0000 | 156.00 | top 85% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.2856 | 158.2856 | 158.29 | top 78% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.7142 | 157.7142 | 157.71 | top 90% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.2856 | 162.2856 | 162.29 | top 70% |
“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.
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 85% | 88.1% | 88.1% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-06-14 | The Desoto Shrine Club 5th Annual 2013 BBQ Cookoff Hernando, MS | 34 / 40 (634.2854) | 34 (156.0000) | 31 (158.2856) | 36 (157.7142) | 28 (162.2856) |