Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
92.8% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 667.8856 at Pepsi Wyoming State BBQ Championships & Bluegrass Festival — 92.8% 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.
The Smokin Dawg 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 125 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.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2022, 4 years before The Smokin Dawg's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2017, 8 years before The Smokin Dawg's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with The Smokin Dawg on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2023, 3 years before The Smokin Dawg's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2016, 10 years before The Smokin Dawg's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.6800 | 163.3944 | 166.54 | top 59% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 175.4288 | 170.2744 | 172.85 | top 32% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.3828 | 159.3484 | 161.37 | top 75% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.4284 | 159.3716 | 161.40 | top 64% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 69% | 92.8% | 92.8% |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 56% | 91.2% | 91.2% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-14 | Pepsi Wyoming State BBQ Championships & Bluegrass Festival 🏅 Worland, WY | 20 / 29 (667.8856) | 17 (169.6800) | 7 (175.4288) | 24 (159.3484) | 21 (163.4284) |
| 2025-08-15 | Pepsi Wyoming State BBQ Championships and Bluegrass Festival 🏅 Worland, WY | 15 / 27 (656.4232) | 16 (163.3944) | 11 (170.2744) | 18 (163.3828) | 15 (159.3716) |