Announced themselves early
3rd
at their very first contest
Finished 3 of 15 at their very first tracked contest, IBEW So Cal BBQ & Chili Cook-Off (COMPETITOR SERIES) (2025-06-20).
- 2025-06-20
- 15-team field
Smoke Brisket Not Meth
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1500
peak 1500 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2025-06-20
latest 2026-07-17
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
2 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 38%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Top-10 streak
2
and counting
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 165.41 · weakest Chicken (147.96)
Road miles
74
mi across 2 mapped stops · furthest 37 mi
Master avg
612.42 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Storylines (1 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.
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.
Smoke Brisket Not Meth 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 121 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.
#3198 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1500
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3205 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2020, 5 years before Smoke Brisket Not Meth's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3199 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
Level with Smoke Brisket Not Meth on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3189 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1508
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 5 years before Smoke Brisket Not Meth's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3207 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1500
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 5 years before Smoke Brisket Not Meth's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3206 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 5 years before Smoke Brisket Not Meth'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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 151.3828 | 144.5372 | 147.96 | top 73% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 173.1432 | 157.6688 | 165.41 | top 46% |
| Pork | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 169.6800 | 153.1200 | 161.40 | top 50% |
| Brisket | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 157.6800 | 157.0972 | 157.39 | top 40% |
“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 (15 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1.1 yrs
2025-06-20 → 2026-07-17
Busiest season
2026
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
CA
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 165.41 · weakest Chicken (147.96)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 2 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
100%
2 of 2 contests
Best top-10 run
2
straight contests — and still running
Master average
612.42
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
20
16–6 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
74
2 mapped stops · furthest 37 mi
Longest layoff
1.1 yrs
2025-06-20 → 2026-07-17
Power rating
1500
peak 1500 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2025
- First tracked contest IBEW So Cal BBQ & Chili Cook-Off (COMPETITOR SERIES)
- First call IBEW So Cal BBQ & Chili Cook-Off (COMPETITOR SERIES)
- First overall top-10 IBEW So Cal BBQ & Chili Cook-Off (COMPETITOR SERIES)
- First overall podium IBEW So Cal BBQ & Chili Cook-Off (COMPETITOR SERIES)
- Career-best overall score651.8860 IBEW So Cal BBQ & Chili Cook-Off (COMPETITOR SERIES)
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)173.1432 IBEW So Cal BBQ & Chili Cook-Off (COMPETITOR SERIES)
- 2026
- Most recent contest IBEW So Cal BBQ & Chili Cook-Off (COMPETITOR SERIES)
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 56% | 85.1% | 85.1% |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 20% | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-17 | IBEW So Cal BBQ & Chili Cook-Off (COMPETITOR SERIES) Santa Ana, CA | 5 / 9 (612.4232) | 6 (144.5372) | 7 (157.6688) | 6 (153.1200) | 3 (157.0972) |
| 2025-06-20 | IBEW So Cal BBQ & Chili Cook-Off (COMPETITOR SERIES) unrated San Diego, CA | 3 / 15 (651.8860) | 12 (151.3828) | 2 (173.1432) | 5 (169.6800) | 7 (157.6800) |