High-water mark
334.2172
career-best overall
92.8% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 334.2172 at Scottsboro BBQ Festival (BACKYARD & KIDS QUE ONLY) — 92.8% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- Oct 8, 2021
Smoking Broke BBQ
Smoking Broke BBQ is a competition barbecue team with 5 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2021 and 2024. Their best overall finish is 14th of 27 at the Scottsboro BBQ Festival (BACKYARD & KIDS QUE ONLY) (2023).
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1496
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 4
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
Oct 8, 2021
latest Oct 11, 2024 · 3 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 61%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
40%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±13.75
spread of their Backyard overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 163.39 · weakest Chicken (161.37)
Road miles
268
across 5 mapped stops · furthest 268 mi
Schedule strength
38%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1550)
Purse competed for
$11K
listed at 4 contests — purses, not winnings
Backyard avg
324.77 / 360
4 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
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Smoking Broke BBQ has 4 rated contests, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 116 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#3,370 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1507
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#3,364 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1496
Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2021.
⚔ Compare careers#3,360 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 3 years before Smoking Broke BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#3,365 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1505
Level with Smoking Broke BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#3,383 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1504
Their last contest in the data was back in 2014, 10 years before Smoking Broke BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#3,346 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1501
Their last contest in the data was back in 2014, 10 years before Smoking Broke BBQ'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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 170.8228 | 150.2056 | 161.37 | top 67% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 172.5600 | 150.8000 | 163.39 | 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.
Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scottsboro BBQ Festival (BACKYARD & KIDS QUE) | 4 | 14 | 0 | top 61% | Oct 11, 2024 |
More numbers
Contests a season
1
across 5 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
AL
4 of 5 contests · 2 states in all
Contests visited
1
1 of them more than once
Opponents faced
76
finished ahead 51 times, behind 79
Longest layoff
6 yrs
Oct 16, 2015 → Oct 8, 2021
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20241 milestone
- Most recent contest Scottsboro BBQ Festival (BACKYARD & KIDS QUE)
20232 milestones
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)172.5600 Scottsboro BBQ Festival (BACKYARD & KIDS QUE ONLY)
- Peak power rating (1507) Scottsboro BBQ Festival (BACKYARD & KIDS QUE ONLY)
20213 milestones
- First call Scottsboro BBQ Festival (BACKYARD & KIDS QUE ONLY)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score334.2172 Scottsboro BBQ Festival (BACKYARD & KIDS QUE ONLY)
- Career-best overall score334.2172 Scottsboro BBQ Festival (BACKYARD & KIDS QUE ONLY)
20151 milestone
- First tracked contest Smoking In The Foothills Barbecue Competition and Festival
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +3 | Scottsboro BBQ Festival (BACKYARD & KIDS QUE ONLY) | Oct 8, 2021 |
| +2.4 | Scottsboro BBQ Festival (BACKYARD & KIDS QUE ONLY) | Oct 7, 2022 |
| +1.6 | Scottsboro BBQ Festival (BACKYARD & KIDS QUE ONLY) | Oct 13, 2023 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -11 | Scottsboro BBQ Festival (BACKYARD & KIDS QUE) | Oct 11, 2024 |
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 92% | 83.6% | 83.6% |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 52% | 92.2% | 92.2% |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 50% | 92.2% | 92.2% |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 48% | 92.8% | 92.8% |
| 2015 | 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 11, 2024 | Scottsboro BBQ Festival (BACKYARD & KIDS QUE) Scottsboro, AL | 35 / 38 (301.0056) | 36 (150.2056) | 34 (150.8000) | — | — |
| Oct 13, 2023 | Scottsboro BBQ Festival (BACKYARD & KIDS QUE ONLY) Scottsboro, AL | 14 / 27 (331.9200) | 23 (159.3600) | 6 (172.5600) | — | — |
| Oct 7, 2022 | Scottsboro BBQ Festival (BACKYARD & KIDS QUE ONLY) Scottsboro, AL | 19 / 38 (331.9200) | 24 (165.0972) | 17 (166.8228) | — | — |
| Oct 8, 2021 | Scottsboro BBQ Festival (BACKYARD & KIDS QUE ONLY) Scottsboro, AL | 15 / 31 (334.2172) | 8 (170.8228) | 17 (163.3944) | — | — |
| Oct 16, 2015 | Smoking In The Foothills Barbecue Competition and Festival Lenoir, NC | — | — | — | — | — |