The long haul
7,505
road miles between contests
Contest to contest, they've covered roughly 7,505 miles across 8 mapped stops — the longest single trip being 1,873 miles to Embers and Ice Pitmaster Championship.
- 8 mapped stops
- furthest 1,873 mi
Rollin Smoke Jr
Rollin Smoke Jr is a competition barbecue team with 8 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record in 2025. Their best overall finish is 3rd of 34 at the Embers and Ice Pitmaster Championship (2025). Also listed in KCBS results as “Rollin' Smoke Jr.” and “Rollin' Smoke JR”.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1513
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 1
Contests
8
in the data
First seen
May 24, 2025
latest May 24, 2025
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
2 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
13% of 8 contests
Avg finish
top 9%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
13%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 166.86 · weakest Pork Ribs (155.38)
Road miles
7,505
across 8 mapped stops · furthest 1,873 mi
Purse competed for
$34K
listed at 5 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 2 state-championship entries
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
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The teams rated closest to Rollin Smoke Jr, each with one reason worth a look.
Rollin Smoke Jr has 1 rated contest, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 124 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#2,706 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1513
Fewer contests behind them than Rollin Smoke Jr has cooked, 5 to 8, which makes theirs the less settled rating of the two.
⚔ Compare careers#2,729 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1513
They were already cooking in 2019, 6 years before Rollin Smoke Jr's first contest.
⚔ Compare careers#2,701 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 14%
- Peak
- 1513
Their rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 7 contests, alongside a 14% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Compare careers#2,721 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1513
Level with Rollin Smoke Jr on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#2,715 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1524
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 7 years before Rollin Smoke Jr's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#2,728 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1513
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 7 years before Rollin Smoke Jr's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careersBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 166.8572 | 166.8572 | 166.86 | top 6% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 155.3828 | 155.3828 | 155.38 | top 9% |
“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
Busiest season
2026
3 contests
Contests a season
2
across 4 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
AL
5 of 8 contests · 2 states and provinces in all
Contests visited
1
a different one every time
Opponents faced
38
finished ahead 33 times, behind 4
Longest layoff
1.3 yrs
Apr 7, 2023 → Jul 27, 2024
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20261 milestone
- Most recent contest O'So Good BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Day 2
20255 milestones
- First call Embers and Ice Pitmaster Championship
- First overall top-10 Embers and Ice Pitmaster Championship
- First overall podium Embers and Ice Pitmaster Championship
- Career-best overall score322.2400 Embers and Ice Pitmaster Championship
- Career-best single call (Chicken)166.8572 Embers and Ice Pitmaster Championship
20231 milestone
- First tracked contest Smoke on the Falls
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)
Season by season
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2025 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 50% | top 9% | 89.5% | 89.5% |
| 2024 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 2026 | O'So Good BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Day 2 Cleveland, AL | — | — | — | — | — |
| May 1, 2026 | O'So Good BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Day 1 Cleveland, AL | — | — | — | — | — |
| Mar 27, 2026 | Singing River Smoke-O-Rama (BACKYARD ONLY) Athens, AL | — | — | — | — | — |
| May 24, 2025 | Embers and Ice Pitmaster Championship Calmar, AB | 3 / 34 (322.2400) | 2 (166.8572) | 3 (155.3828) | — | — |
| Apr 11, 2025 | Smoke on the Falls BBQ Competition 🏅 Gadsden, AL | — | — | — | — | — |
| Aug 31, 2024 | Barbeque on the Bow Festival Calgary, AB | — | — | — | — | — |
| Jul 27, 2024 | Didsbury Lions BBQ Didsbury, AB | — | — | — | — | — |
| Apr 7, 2023 | Smoke on the Falls 🏅 Gadsden, AL | — | — | — | — | — |