A tough matchup
3–0
behind in the head-to-head
CHICKEN FRIED BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings
CHICKEN FRIED BBQ has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
DEEP SOUTH SMOKERS
DEEP SOUTH SMOKERS is a competition barbecue team with 5 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2022 and 2024. Their best overall finish is 21st of 25 at the Honeybee BBQ Competition (2022).
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1489
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 13 invitational or side-series contests not counted
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
Jun 3, 2022
latest Oct 17, 2024 · 2.4 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
0% of 5 contests
Avg finish
top 94%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 166.25 · weakest Pork (161.38)
Road miles
147
across 5 mapped stops · furthest 58 mi
Purse competed for
$125K
listed at 5 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
655.28 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs
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DEEP SOUTH SMOKERS has 1 rated contest, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 149 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#3,732 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1504
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
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- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1489
They were already cooking in 2014, 8 years before DEEP SOUTH SMOKERS's first contest.
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- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1489
Level with DEEP SOUTH SMOKERS on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
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- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1489
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 3 years before DEEP SOUTH SMOKERS's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#3,749 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1511
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 6 years before DEEP SOUTH SMOKERS's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#3,726 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1504
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 7 years before DEEP SOUTH 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 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.5372 | 159.9544 | 165.40 | top 86% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 172.5600 | 162.8116 | 166.25 | top 77% |
| Pork | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2400 | 156.5028 | 161.38 | top 98% |
| Brisket | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.5600 | 159.3828 | 163.82 | top 82% |
“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.
Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Royal Oak Invitational (COMPETITOR SERIES) (PRIVATE EVENT BY INVITATION) | 2 | 31 | 0 | top 97% | Oct 17, 2024 |
More numbers
Busiest season
2022
2 contests
Contests a season
1.3
across 4 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
GA
5 of 5 contests
Contests visited
3
1 of them more than once
Opponents faced
120
finished ahead 6 times, behind 158
Longest layoff
1.8 yrs
Jul 31, 2020 → Jun 3, 2022
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20241 milestone
- Most recent contest Royal Oak Invitational (COMPETITOR SERIES) (PRIVATE EVENT BY INVITATION)
20223 milestones
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score649.5428 Honeybee BBQ Competition
- Career-best overall score661.0172 Royal Oak Invitational Only (COMPETITOR SERIES)
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)172.5600 Royal Oak Invitational Only (COMPETITOR SERIES)
20201 milestone
- First tracked contest Hawgin On Lanier
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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 94% | 91.1% | 91.1% |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 100% | 91.8% | 91.8% |
| 2022 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 92% | 91.8% | 91% |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 17, 2024 | Royal Oak Invitational (COMPETITOR SERIES) (PRIVATE EVENT BY INVITATION) unrated Roswell, GA | 31 / 33 (655.8516) | 31 (167.4056) | 32 (162.8116) | 32 (159.3828) | 23 (166.2516) |
| Oct 20, 2023 | Royal Oak Invitational (COMPETITOR SERIES) (PRIVATE EVENT BY INVITATION) unrated Roswell, GA | 35 / 35 (660.9600) | 26 (168.5372) | 31 (165.0972) | 35 (166.2400) | 34 (161.0856) |
| Oct 21, 2022 | Royal Oak Invitational Only (COMPETITOR SERIES) unrated Roswell, GA | 35 / 35 (661.0172) | 31 (165.6916) | 17 (172.5600) | 34 (163.3828) | 35 (159.3828) |
| Jun 3, 2022 | Honeybee BBQ Competition 🏅 Lafayette, GA | 21 / 25 (649.5428) | 22 (159.9544) | 18 (164.5256) | 24 (156.5028) | 15 (168.5600) |
| Jul 31, 2020 | Hawgin On Lanier 🏅 Cumming, GA | — | — | — | — | — |
An unrated contest — an invitational, or a Competitor or Kosher Series board — is in the record but doesn’t move the power rating.