Announced themselves early
4th
at their very first contest
Finished 4 of 24 at their very first tracked contest, BBQ Fest Costa Rica 2024 (2024-04-06).
- 2024-04-06
- 24-team field
Tico Smoke
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1516
peak 1516 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2024-04-06
latest 2025-03-14
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 29%
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 166.30 · weakest Brisket (159.70)
Road miles
6
mi across 2 mapped stops
Master avg
651.99 / 720
2 Master contests · 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.
Tico Smoke 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 85 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.
#2600 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1525
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2617 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2013, 11 years before Tico Smoke's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#2620 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1526
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 4 years before Tico Smoke's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2602 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
Level with Tico Smoke on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2616 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 8 years before Tico Smoke's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2608 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1523
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2015, 10 years before Tico Smoke'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 | 163.9656 | 159.4056 | 161.69 | top 62% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 172.0228 | 160.5828 | 166.30 | top 49% |
| Pork | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 166.8800 | 161.7256 | 164.30 | top 41% |
| Brisket | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 167.4400 | 151.9656 | 159.70 | top 39% |
“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.
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 41% |
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 17% |
The story so far (13 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0.9 yrs
2024-04-06 → 2025-03-14
Busiest season
2025
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
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 166.30 · weakest Brisket (159.70)
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
651.99
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
34
30–9 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
6
2 mapped stops
Power rating
1516
peak 1516 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2024
- First tracked contest BBQ Fest Costa Rica 2024
- First call BBQ Fest Costa Rica 2024
- First overall top-10 BBQ Fest Costa Rica 2024
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score654.3084 BBQ Fest Costa Rica 2024
- Career-best overall score654.3084 BBQ Fest Costa Rica 2024
- 2025
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)172.0228 Masters BBQ Challenge CR
- Most recent contest Masters BBQ Challenge CR
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 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 41% | 90.2% | 90.2% |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 17% | 90.9% | 90.9% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-03-14 | Masters BBQ Challenge CR San Jose, 10104 | 7 / 17 (649.6796) | 9 (163.9656) | 6 (172.0228) | 9 (161.7256) | 12 (151.9656) |
| 2024-04-06 | BBQ Fest Costa Rica 2024 Heredia, 40703 | 4 / 24 (654.3084) | 17 (159.4056) | 15 (160.5828) | 7 (166.8800) | 2 (167.4400) |