Their season
2024
their best year
2024 was the year it came together: 3 contests, 0 Grand Championships and 0 category wins, at an average finish in the top 60%.
- 3 contests
- 0 overall top-10s
- 0 category wins
- average top 60%
Smokey Joe & The Casual Smokers
Smokey Joe & The Casual Smokers is a competition barbecue team with 5 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2023 and 2024. Their best overall finish is 15th of 25 at the Weekend of Giving (2024). They finished #1014 in the 2024 Master Series Team of the Year standings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1488
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 2
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
Apr 15, 2023
latest Oct 26, 2024 · 1.5 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podium
Overall top-10s
0
0% of 5 contests
Avg finish
top 75%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
40%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 168.95 · weakest Pork (158.23)
Road miles
86
across 5 mapped stops · furthest 86 mi
Purse competed for
$10K
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
640.16 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs
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 Smokey Joe & The Casual Smokers, each with one reason worth a look.
Smokey Joe & The Casual Smokers 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 142 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#3,740 of the rated field
- Contests
- 43
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 12%
- Peak
- 1489
0–1 in 1 shared contest (0% to Smokey Joe & The Casual Smokers)
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Smokey Joe & The Casual Smokers has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head#3,760 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1504
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#3,741 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1489
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 3 years before Smokey Joe & The Casual Smokers's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#3,763 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
They were already cooking in 2014, 9 years before Smokey Joe & The Casual Smokers's first contest.
⚔ Compare careers#3,749 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1511
Level with Smokey Joe & The Casual Smokers on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#3,755 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 6 years before Smokey Joe & The Casual Smokers'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 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 175.4288 | 164.5484 | 168.95 | top 55% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 171.4172 | 142.8000 | 160.83 | top 66% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.2400 | 154.2172 | 158.23 | top 88% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.8228 | 160.5600 | 161.69 | top 67% |
“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) | 1 | 0 | top 60% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 91% |
More numbers
Busiest season
2024
3 contests
Contests a season
2.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
MA
3 of 5 contests · 2 states in all
Contests visited
2
a different one every time
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
4 entries · 0 wins · 1 call
Opponents faced
56
finished ahead 14 times, behind 52
Longest layoff
1.5 yrs
Apr 15, 2023 → Oct 25, 2024
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20245 milestones
- First call Weekend of Giving (ONE MEAT RIBS)
- Career-best single call (Chicken)175.4288 Weekend of Giving (ONE MEAT CHICKEN)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score655.8740 Weekend of Giving
- Career-best overall score655.8740 Weekend of Giving
- Most recent contest Weekend of Giving
20231 milestone
- First tracked contest Southern New England Barbecue Throwdown - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (ONE MEAT RIBS)
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 | 67% | top 60% | 91.1% | 91.1% |
| 2023 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 91% | 86.7% | 86.7% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 26, 2024 | Weekend of Giving 🏅 Wrentham, MA | 15 / 25 (655.8740) | 20 (164.5484) | 13 (166.2628) | 20 (162.2400) | 15 (162.8228) |
| Oct 25, 2024 | Weekend of Giving (ONE MEAT CHICKEN) Wrentham, MA | — | 3 (175.4288) | — | — | — |
| Oct 25, 2024 | Weekend of Giving (ONE MEAT RIBS) Wrentham, MA | — | — | 8 (171.4172) | — | — |
| Apr 15, 2023 | Southern New England Barbecue Throwdown - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES 🏅 Bristol, CT | 39 / 43 (624.4456) | 30 (166.8684) | 41 (142.8000) | 41 (154.2172) | 32 (160.5600) |
| Apr 15, 2023 | Southern New England Barbecue Throwdown - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (ONE MEAT RIBS) Bristol, CT | — | — | 16 (162.8344) | — | — |