High-water mark
674.7660
career-best overall
93.7% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 674.7660 at Smokin on the Osage BBQ Contest and Car Show (Day 2) — 93.7% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2025-07-19
Smokin' Sparkies
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1485
peak 1485 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2025-07-18
latest 2025-07-19
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 87%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Brisket
avg 170.83 · weakest Chicken (161.41)
Road miles
0
mi across 2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$11K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
669.59 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs
Storylines (2 found in this team's record)
Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
Looking over their shoulder
2×
one call behind them
Crooked Que BBQ has landed one call behind them 2 times.
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.
Smokin' Sparkies 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 149 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.
#3890 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1485
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3911 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
Level with Smokin' Sparkies on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3902 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1485
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2018, 7 years before Smokin' Sparkies's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3888 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1485
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3916 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1485
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 4 years before Smokin' Sparkies's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3932 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1509
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 4 years before Smokin' Sparkies'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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.1316 | 157.6916 | 161.41 | top 94% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 178.8572 | 159.9312 | 169.39 | top 54% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.6800 | 166.2400 | 167.96 | top 77% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171.9772 | 169.6800 | 170.83 | top 52% |
“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.
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smokin on the Osage BBQ Contest and Car Show (Day 2) | 2 | 25 | 0 | top 87% | 2025-07-19 |
The story so far (14 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0 yrs
2025-07-18 → 2025-07-19
Busiest season
2025
2 contests
Cooks most in
MO
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
1
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Brisket
averages 170.83 · weakest Chicken (161.41)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 1 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 2 contests
Master average
669.59
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
45
8–72 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
0
2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$11,200
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Power rating
1485
peak 1485 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2025
- First tracked contest Smokin on the Osage BBQ Contest and Car Show (Day 1)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score664.4228 Smokin on the Osage BBQ Contest and Car Show (Day 1)
- First call Smokin on the Osage BBQ Contest and Car Show (Day 2)
- Career-best overall score674.7660 Smokin on the Osage BBQ Contest and Car Show (Day 2)
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)178.8572 Smokin on the Osage BBQ Contest and Car Show (Day 2)
- Most recent contest Smokin on the Osage BBQ Contest and Car Show (Day 2)
Category scores over time
Overall finish over time (top-% of field, lower is better)
Where they finish (overall)
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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 87% | 93.7% | 93% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-07-19 | Smokin on the Osage BBQ Contest and Car Show (Day 2) 🏅 Osceola, MO | 25 / 28 (674.7660) | 28 (157.6916) | 2 (178.8572) | 24 (166.2400) | 15 (171.9772) |
| 2025-07-18 | Smokin on the Osage BBQ Contest and Car Show (Day 1) 🏅 Osceola, MO | 27 / 32 (664.4228) | 28 (165.1316) | 32 (159.9312) | 22 (169.6800) | 16 (169.6800) |