- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1504
5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where I Only Smoke the Good Stuff's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThis team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
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.
I Only Smoke the Good Stuff 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 156 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.
5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where I Only Smoke the Good Stuff's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2017, 8 years before I Only Smoke the Good Stuff's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with I Only Smoke the Good Stuff on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2022, 3 years before I Only Smoke the Good Stuff's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2019, 6 years before I Only Smoke the Good Stuff's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2019, 6 years before I Only Smoke the Good Stuff'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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.9660 | 163.9660 | 163.97 | top 94% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.3600 | 155.3600 | 155.36 | top 97% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2744 | 166.2744 | 166.27 | top 56% |
| Brisket | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 94% | 88.7% | 88.7% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-16 | High on the Hog Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Winchester, TN | 30 / 32 (319.3260) | 30 (163.9660) | 31 (155.3600) | 18 (166.2744) | — |