High-water mark
676.5028
career-best overall
94.0% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 676.5028 at American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest — 94.0% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- Oct 30, 2024
Chase-N-Moore Smoke
Chase-N-Moore Smoke is a competition barbecue team with 6 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2022 and 2024. Their best overall finish is 159th of 169 at the American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest (2024).
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1507
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 22 invitational or side-series contests not counted
Contests
6
in the data
First seen
Sep 29, 2022
latest Oct 30, 2024 · 2.1 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 73%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±6.53
spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 172.83 · weakest Chicken (160.95)
Road miles
11
across 6 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$113K
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
666.58 / 720
4 Master contests · 0 GCs
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to Chase-N-Moore Smoke, each with one reason worth a look.
Chase-N-Moore Smoke 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 111 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#2,971 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1517
1–0 in 1 shared contest (100% to Chase-N-Moore Smoke)
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Chase-N-Moore Smoke has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head#2,977 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1507
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#2,962 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1508
Level with Chase-N-Moore Smoke on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#2,988 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1506
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#2,968 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1511
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#2,970 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
They were already cooking in 2013, 9 years before Chase-N-Moore Smoke's first contest.
⚔ Compare careersBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.3828 | 157.6456 | 160.95 | top 89% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 176.5600 | 168.5256 | 172.83 | top 34% |
| Pork | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.8344 | 161.0856 | 166.12 | top 65% |
| Brisket | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 173.1200 | 160.5256 | 166.69 | top 53% |
“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
Contests a season
3
across 2 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
KS
6 of 6 contests
Contests visited
4
a different one every time
Opponents faced
696
finished ahead 490 times, behind 873
Longest layoff
2.1 yrs
Oct 1, 2022 → Oct 30, 2024
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20242 milestones
- Career-best overall score676.5028 American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest
- Most recent contest American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Sides
20223 milestones
- First tracked contest American Royal World Series of Barbecue - INVITATIONAL CONTEST
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score658.1484 American Royal World Series of Barbecue - INVITATIONAL CONTEST
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)176.5600 American Royal World Series of Barbecue - INVITATIONAL CONTEST
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 71% | 94% | 93.2% |
| 2022 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 74% | 92.4% | 91.9% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 30, 2024 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Sides Kansas City, KS | — | — | — | — | — |
| Oct 30, 2024 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 217 / 444 (676.5028) | 368 (161.0972) | 93 (174.2628) | 207 (169.1428) | 89 (172) |
| Oct 30, 2024 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest unrated Kansas City, KS | 159 / 169 (666.1140) | 161 (163.3828) | 131 (168.5256) | 159 (161.0856) | 58 (173.1200) |
| Oct 1, 2022 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - SIDES Kansas City, KS | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sep 29, 2022 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - OPEN CONTEST 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 266 / 505 (665.5656) | 388 (161.6572) | 132 (171.9656) | 158 (170.8344) | 333 (161.1084) |
| Sep 29, 2022 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - INVITATIONAL CONTEST unrated Kansas City, KS | 235 / 249 (658.1484) | 248 (157.6456) | 25 (176.5600) | 219 (163.4172) | 228 (160.5256) |
An unrated contest — an invitational, or a Competitor or Kosher Series board — is in the record but doesn’t move the power rating.