High-water mark
503.3372
career-best overall
93.2% of a perfect 540
Their best day on record: 503.3372 at Dr. George Smith BBQ Brawl (COMPETITORS SERIES) — 93.2% of a perfect 540.
- Competitor Series
- Apr 19, 2024
SMOKIN' DADDIES BBQ
SMOKIN' DADDIES BBQ is a competition barbecue team with 6 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2023 and 2025. Their best overall finish is 17th of 32 at the Dr. George Smith BBQ Brawl (COMPETITORS SERIES) (2023). They finished #368 in the 2025 Backyard Series Team of the Year standings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1509
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 22 invitational or side-series contests not counted
Contests
6
in the data
First seen
Mar 17, 2023
latest Mar 14, 2025 · 2 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
0% of 6 contests
Avg finish
top 47%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
17%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 168.54 · weakest Pork Ribs (163.19)
Road miles
50
across 6 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$32K
listed at 4 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 2 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
328.19 / 360
2 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to SMOKIN' DADDIES BBQ, each with one reason worth a look.
SMOKIN' DADDIES BBQ has 2 rated contests, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 101 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#2,859 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1515
Their last contest in the data was back in 2020, 5 years before SMOKIN' DADDIES BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#2,871 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1509
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#2,858 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1519
They were already cooking in 2013, 10 years before SMOKIN' DADDIES BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Compare careers#2,864 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1510
Level with SMOKIN' DADDIES BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#2,863 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1515
Their last contest in the data was back in 2016, 9 years before SMOKIN' DADDIES BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#2,867 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1509
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 7 years before SMOKIN' DADDIES BBQ'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 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.9656 | 160.5144 | 164.95 | top 46% |
| Pork Ribs | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 169.6800 | 158.2284 | 163.19 | top 58% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.5372 | 168.5372 | 168.54 | top 26% |
“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 field size and state
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 2 | 0 | top 56% |
| Large (40+) | 2 | 0 | top 37% |
Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smoke on the Shores BBQ Championship | 2 | 28 | 0 | top 37% | Mar 14, 2025 |
| Dr. George Smith BBQ Brawl (COMPETITORS SERIES) | 2 | 17 | 0 | top 56% | Apr 19, 2024 |
More numbers
Busiest season
2023
3 contests
Contests a season
2
across 3 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
TN
6 of 6 contests
Contests visited
2
2 of them more than once
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
6 entries · 0 wins · 1 call
Opponents faced
240
finished ahead 167 times, behind 167
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20251 milestone
- Most recent contest Smoke on the Shores BBQ Championship
20241 milestone
- Career-best overall score503.3372 Dr. George Smith BBQ Brawl (COMPETITORS SERIES)
20234 milestones
- First tracked contest Smoke on the Shores BBQ Championship (One Meat Ribs)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score329.6344 Smoke on the Shores BBQ Championship
- First call Dr. George Smith BBQ Brawl (COMPETITORS SERIES)
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)169.6800 Dr. George Smith BBQ Brawl (COMPETITORS SERIES)
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 39% | 90.8% | 90.8% |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 59% | 93.2% | 93.2% |
| 2023 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33% | top 44% | 91.9% | 91.8% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 2025 | Smoke on the Shores BBQ Championship 🏅 Lebanon, TN | 39 / 100 (326.7428) | 32 (167.3828) | 42 (159.3600) | 26 (168.5372) | — |
| Mar 14, 2025 | Smoke on the Shores BBQ Championship (ONE MEAT RIBS) Lebanon, TN | — | — | 64 (159.3716) | — | — |
| Apr 19, 2024 | Dr. George Smith BBQ Brawl (COMPETITORS SERIES) unrated Murfreesboro, TN | 22 / 37 (503.3372) | 21 (167.9656) | 30 (163.3944) | — | — |
| May 12, 2023 | Dr. George Smith BBQ Brawl (COMPETITORS SERIES) unrated Murfreesboro, TN | 17 / 32 (496.4572) | 15 (163.9428) | 10 (169.6800) | — | — |
| Mar 17, 2023 | Smoke on the Shores BBQ Championship 🏅 Lebanon, TN | 28 / 80 (329.6344) | 40 (160.5144) | 13 (169.1200) | — | — |
| Mar 17, 2023 | Smoke on the Shores BBQ Championship (One Meat Ribs) Lebanon, TN | — | — | 51 (158.2284) | — | — |
An unrated contest — an invitational, or a Competitor or Kosher Series board — is in the record but doesn’t move the power rating.