Hard Smoke BBQ
Hard Smoke BBQ is a competition barbecue team with 4 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record in 2025. Their best overall finish is 16th of 20 at the Wild West Fest on Fire (2025). They finished #1042 in the 2025 Master Series Team of the Year standings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1492
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 1
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
Aug 9, 2025
latest Aug 9, 2025
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
0% of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 80%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
75%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 171.98 · weakest Pork (155.37)
Road miles
161
across 4 mapped stops
Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 ↗ | Master | #1042 (90 pts) | #655 (274 pts) | #596 (340 pts) | #1148 (70 pts) | #1076 (90 pts) |
By meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 177.7144 | 166.2516 | 171.98 | top 47% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 170.2628 | 158.2172 | 163.59 | top 70% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.3716 | 155.3716 | 155.37 | top 100% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.2172 | 158.2172 | 158.22 | top 80% |
“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.
More numbers
Contests visited
1
a different one every time
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
3 entries · 0 wins · 2 calls
Opponents faced
19
finished ahead 4 times, behind 15
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20256 milestones
- First tracked contest Mee (a)t and Fire BBQ Festival Innsbruck (ONE MEAT RIBS)
- First call Mee (a)t and Fire BBQ Festival Innsbruck (ONE MEAT RIBS)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score649.5204 Wild West Fest on Fire
- Career-best overall score649.5204 Wild West Fest on Fire
- Career-best single call (Chicken)177.7144 Wild West Fest on Fire
- Most recent contest Wild West Fest on Fire
Scores over time (% of a perfect score — tap a meat to add it)
Overall finish over time (top-% of field, lower is better)
Where they finish (overall)
Best vs average (by meat)
How entries end (by meat)
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 2025 | Wild West Fest on Fire Medvode | 16 / 20 (649.5204) | 5 (177.7144) | 16 (158.2172) | 20 (155.3716) | 16 (158.2172) |
| Aug 9, 2025 | Wild West Fest on Fire (ONE MEAT CHICKEN) Medvode | — | 13 (166.2516) | — | — | — |
| Aug 9, 2025 | Wild West Fest on Fire (ONE MEAT RIBS) Medvode | — | — | 9 (170.2628) | — | — |
| Jun 28, 2025 | Mee (a)t and Fire BBQ Festival Innsbruck (ONE MEAT RIBS) Innsbruck | — | — | 9 (162.2972) | — | — |