Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
Off the trail for 9.7 years, then back at World Championship Hot Wings Contest & Festival (COMPETITORS SERIES) (2024-04-20).
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.
Grateful Smokers 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 125 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.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 8 years after Grateful Smokers did, first appearing in 2021.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2017, 7 years before Grateful Smokers's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Grateful Smokers on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 6 contests to 4.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 6 contests to 4.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.8800 | 147.9544 | 153.42 | top 68% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.5484 | 156.0228 | 158.29 | top 52% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 143.4628 | 131.3256 | 137.39 | top 94% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.1544 | 154.2972 | 155.73 | top 42% |
“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.
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| NY | 2 | 0 | top 50% |
| TN | 1 | 0 | top 40% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 40% |
| Large (40+) | 2 | 0 | top 50% |
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hudson Valley Ribfest | 2 | 16 | 0 | top 50% | 2014-08-16 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0% | top 40% | — | — |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 27% | 86.1% | 86.1% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 73% | 85.5% | 85.5% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-11-02 | 901 Hot Wing Festival (COMPETITOR SERIES) (JUDGING FULL) unrated Memphis, TN | 6 / 15 (171.9656) | — | — | — | — |
| 2024-04-20 | World Championship Hot Wings Contest & Festival (COMPETITORS SERIES) Memphis, TN | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2014-08-16 | Hudson Valley Ribfest New Paltz, NY | 16 / 60 (619.9656) | 51 (147.9544) | 25 (160.5484) | 59 (131.3256) | 29 (154.2972) |
| 2013-08-16 | Hudson Valley Ribfest New Paltz, NY | 37 / 51 (615.5200) | 26 (158.8800) | 32 (156.0228) | 46 (143.4628) | 18 (157.1544) |