High-water mark
343.9888
career-best overall
95.6% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 343.9888 at Poosa Q — 95.6% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2024-10-04
LWS SMOKING ACES
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1505
peak 1509 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2024-10-04
latest 2024-10-11
Best ToY finish
#271
Backyard 2024
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 52%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 167.11 · weakest Pork Ribs (165.68)
Road miles
155
mi across 2 mapped stops · furthest 78 mi
Purse competed for
$47K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
332.79 / 360
2 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Storylines (1 found in this team's record)
Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
Teams like this (closest power rating)
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.
LWS SMOKING ACES 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 106 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.
#3015 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1508
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3010 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2017, 7 years before LWS SMOKING ACES's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3001 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 5 years before LWS SMOKING ACES's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3022 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
Level with LWS SMOKING ACES on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3007 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1508
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2013, 11 years before LWS SMOKING ACES's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3019 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1510
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2013, 11 years before LWS SMOKING ACES's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 173.7144 | 160.5028 | 167.11 | top 52% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.2744 | 161.0856 | 165.68 | top 51% |
| Pork | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
| Brisket | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
“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 contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 71% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 34% |
The story so far (14 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0 yrs
2024-10-04 → 2024-10-11
Busiest season
2024
2 contests
Cooks most in
AL
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 167.11 · weakest Pork Ribs (165.68)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 2 contests
Backyard average
332.79
out of 360 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
137
88–64 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
155
2 mapped stops · furthest 78 mi
Purse competed for
$46,550
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Power rating
1505
peak 1509 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2024
- First tracked contest Poosa Q
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score343.9888 Poosa Q
- Career-best overall score343.9888 Poosa Q
- Career-best single call (Chicken)173.7144 Poosa Q
- Most recent contest Scottsboro BBQ Festival (BACKYARD & KIDS QUE)
Category scores over time
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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 52% | 95.6% | 92.4% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-10-11 | Scottsboro BBQ Festival (BACKYARD & KIDS QUE) Scottsboro, AL | 27 / 38 (321.5884) | 28 (160.5028) | 23 (161.0856) | — | — |
| 2024-10-04 | Poosa Q 🏅 Montgomery, AL | 20 / 59 (343.9888) | 18 (173.7144) | 25 (170.2744) | — | — |
Career map (orange GC · green top-10 · grey the rest — tap a pin)
Team of the Year standings (rank per category by season — year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 ↗ | Backyard | #271 (145 pts) | #269 (155 pts) | #299 (130 pts) | — | — |