The one to beat
3×
one call ahead of them
Dutch BBQ Friends - Netherlands has finished one call ahead of Serial Soul Smokers 3 times — their closest competition in the data.
Serial Soul Smokers
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1430
peak 1430 · rated over 15 contests ⓘ
Contests
15
in the data
First seen
2017-06-03
latest 2024-09-07
Best ToY finish
#777
Master 2020
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 15 contests
Avg finish
top 75%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
618.25 ▼
last 5 Master vs avg 629.99 (-11.74)
Walk rate
33%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±14.74
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 162.84 · weakest Brisket (154.45)
Road miles
719
mi across 15 mapped stops
Schedule strength
40%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1552)
Master avg
629.99 / 720
15 Master contests · 0 GCs
Storylines (8 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.
Their season
2019
their best year
2019 was the year it came together: 3 contests, 0 Grand Championships and 0 category wins, at an average finish in the top 59%.
- 3 contests
- 0 overall top-10s
- 0 category wins
- average top 59%
A tough matchup
13–1
behind in the head-to-head
IQ - NETHERLANDS ahead in 93% of their meetings
IQ - NETHERLANDS has come out ahead in 13 of their 14 shared contests.
The weak link
−8.4
points behind their best meat
Brisket is where the weekend gets away from them — it averages 8.39 points below their chicken, and turns into a call 0% of the time against 20%.
- Brisket avg 154.45
- Chicken avg 162.84
- 0 calls in 15 entries
A strong matchup
4–1
ahead in the head-to-head
Ahead in 80% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of PASSIE EN VUUR in 4 of their 5 shared contests.
Chicken nemesis
12 of 14
shared chicken entries lost
IQ - NETHERLANDS ahead 86% of the time
Even in their strongest meat, IQ - NETHERLANDS has out-cooked them in 12 of 14 shared chicken entries.
Looking over their shoulder
2×
one call behind them
BBQ Team Laurentius has landed one call behind them 2 times.
The metronome
±2.05%
swing around their own average
Their overall lands within ±2.05% of a perfect score of their own average — whatever the field, you know roughly what they'll turn in.
- averages 87.5% of a perfect score
- 15 contests
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.
45 rated teams sit within a point of this rating, so a place on this list means the numbers match — no more than that.
#6022 of the rated field
- Contests
- 15
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1431
No shared contest yet.
This is the highest they've ever been rated, 15 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Head-to-head#6028 of the rated field
- Contests
- 16
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1431
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 16 contests to 15, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#6023 of the rated field
- Contests
- 14
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1431
No shared contest yet.
14 contests and no Grand Championship yet.
⚔ Head-to-head#6027 of the rated field
- Contests
- 14
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 14%
- Peak
- 1511
No shared contest yet.
Level with Serial Soul Smokers on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#6030 of the rated field
- Contests
- 17
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 6%
- Peak
- 1430
No shared contest yet.
This is the highest they've ever been rated, 17 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Head-to-head#6029 of the rated field
- Contests
- 17
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1431
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2020, 4 years before Serial Soul Smokers's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headFamiliar foes (most-met opponents in overall standings — one meeting per contest)
| Opponent | Meetings | Ahead | Behind | Win rate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IQ - NETHERLANDS | 14 | 1 | 13 | 7% | ⚔ compare |
| RIVERLAND SMOKERS | 13 | 4 | 9 | 31% | ⚔ compare |
| Osdorp Grillers (NL) | 13 | 2 | 11 | 15% | ⚔ compare |
| Backcorner BBQ | 13 | 1 | 12 | 8% | ⚔ compare |
| BBQ+ | 11 | 0 | 11 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| BBQ Team Laurentius | 10 | 3 | 7 | 30% | ⚔ compare |
| It's spice that meats you | 10 | 2 | 8 | 20% | ⚔ compare |
| BUGHOUSE SMOKERS | 10 | 2 | 8 | 20% | ⚔ compare |
| PARKSTAD SMOKERS | 10 | 0 | 10 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| LOWLAND SMOKERS | 9 | 5 | 4 | 56% | ⚔ compare |
| Dutch BBQ Friends - Netherlands | 9 | 3 | 6 | 33% | ⚔ compare |
| BELGIAN BBQ TEAM FIVE Q | 9 | 1 | 8 | 11% | ⚔ compare |
| The Popes White Smoke | 9 | 1 | 8 | 11% | ⚔ compare |
| WETTELS ON FIRE | 9 | 1 | 8 | 11% | ⚔ compare |
| SOUTHERN DUTCH BBQ | 9 | 0 | 9 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
By meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 15 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 169.7028 | 148.4796 | 162.84 | top 59% |
| Pork Ribs | 15 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 166.2512 | 151.3828 | 157.88 | top 63% |
| Pork | 16 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 165.7484 | 129.6572 | 155.50 | top 73% |
| Brisket | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.0344 | 131.3600 | 154.45 | top 69% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 2 | 0 | top 97% |
| Medium (20–39) | 7 | 0 | top 76% |
| Large (40+) | 6 | 0 | top 65% |
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Farm Meat "De Vaartse Hoeve" Barbeque Contest (Day 2) | 2 | 20 | 0 | top 85% | 2024-09-07 |
| Tony Stone BBQ Competition | 2 | 25 | 0 | top 64% | 2022-06-03 |
The story so far (14 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
7.3 yrs
2017-06-03 → 2024-09-07
Busiest season
2019
3 contests
Contests a season
1.9
across 8 seasons in the data
Contests visited
13
2 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Pork
16 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 162.84 · weakest Brisket (154.45)
Walk rate
33%
a top-10 call in 5 of 15 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 15 contests
Master average
629.99
out of 720 · 15 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
219
160–368 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
719
15 mapped stops
Schedule strength
1552
average field rating faced — tougher than 40% of rated contests
Longest layoff
1 yrs
2020-09-12 → 2021-09-25
Power rating
1430
peak 1430 · #6031 of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2017
- First tracked contest Tony Stone Low & Slow BBQ Competition
- 2018
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score653.6916 Tony Stone Low & Slow BBQ Competition
- Career-best overall score653.6916 Tony Stone Low & Slow BBQ Competition
- Peak power rating (1490) Tony Stone Low & Slow BBQ Competition
- 2019
- First call Farm Meat De Vaartse Hoeve BBQ Contest
- 2022
- 10th tracked contest Meetjesland International BBQ Contest
- 2024
- Career-best single call (Chicken)169.7028 Farm Meat "De Vaartse Hoeve" Barbeque Contest (Day 2)
- Most recent contest Farm Meat "De Vaartse Hoeve" Barbeque Contest (Day 2)
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +9.2 | Tony Stone Low & Slow BBQ Competition | 2018-05-19 |
| +5 | Tony Stone BBQ Competition | 2019-06-08 |
| +0.9 | Farm Meat "De Vaartse Hoeve" BBQ | 2020-09-12 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -13.9 | Tony Stone Low & Slow BBQ Competition | 2017-06-03 |
| -11.5 | Meetjesland International BBQ Contest | 2022-05-14 |
| -11.2 | 3rd De Vliegende Hollander BBQ Contest | 2023-05-06 |
| -7.8 | De Vliegende Hollander BBQ Contest 2024 | 2024-04-20 |
| -6.5 | Farm Meat "De Vaartse Hoeve" Barbeque Contest (Day 2) | 2023-09-10 |
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)
Team of the Year rank by season
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 | 50% | top 87% | 88.1% | 87.8% |
| 2023 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 93% | 85.8% | 84.9% |
| 2022 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 88% | 86.8% | 85.4% |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 76% | 88.2% | 88.2% |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 58% | 88.8% | 88.8% |
| 2019 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33% | top 59% | 90.6% | 88.8% |
| 2018 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 51% | 90.8% | 89.4% |
| 2017 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 84% | 88.9% | 87.1% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-09-07 | Farm Meat "De Vaartse Hoeve" Barbeque Contest (Day 2) Dongen, 5106NC | 20 / 24 (634.1484) | 10 (169.7028) | 18 (156.5372) | 24 (142.7884) | 13 (165.1200) |
| 2024-04-20 | De Vliegende Hollander BBQ Contest 2024 Terneuzen, 4538AP | 21 / 23 (630.1144) | 19 (162.2628) | 13 (161.0856) | 23 (149.6800) | 19 (157.0860) |
| 2023-09-10 | Farm Meat "De Vaartse Hoeve" Barbeque Contest (Day 2) Dongen, 5106NC | 20 / 23 (605.0860) | 13 (160.5600) | 16 (153.6916) | 23 (129.6572) | 12 (161.1772) |
| 2023-05-06 | 3rd De Vliegende Hollander BBQ Contest Terneuzen, 4538AP | 15 / 15 (617.5312) | 10 (163.4284) | 15 (151.3828) | 14 (154.2056) | 15 (148.5144) |
| 2022-06-03 | Tony Stone BBQ Competition Hoofddorp, 2134CG | 31 / 38 (604.3656) | 37 (148.4796) | 24 (157.6916) | 36 (150.2400) | 31 (147.9544) |
| 2022-05-14 | Meetjesland International BBQ Contest Aalter, 9880 | 18 / 19 (625.0284) | 19 (156.5256) | 19 (151.3944) | 5 (165.6912) | 11 (158.3200) |
| 2021-09-25 | De Vliegende Hollander BBQ Terneuzen, 4538AP | 16 / 21 (634.8228) | 12 (164.0228) | 6 (166.2512) | 15 (159.4288) | 20 (145.1200) |
| 2020-09-12 | Farm Meat "De Vaartse Hoeve" BBQ Dongen, 5106NC | 18 / 31 (639.3368) | 15 (164.0112) | 16 (161.1200) | 14 (165.1200) | 28 (149.0856) |
| 2019-09-07 | Farm Meat De Vaartse Hoeve BBQ Contest Dongen, 5106NC | 21 / 38 (643.9544) | 7 (168.0000) | 24 (158.2744) | 32 (150.8456) | 11 (166.8344) |
| 2019-06-08 | Tony Stone BBQ Competition Hoofddorp, 2314CG | 25 / 55 (652.5372) | 21 (166.2740) | 29 (161.1544) | 41 (157.0744) | 14 (168.0344) |
| 2019-05-11 | Beer,Fries & BBQ VI Kapermolenpark,Hasselt, 3800 | 38 / 49 (621.5084) | 22 (166.2628) | 19 (161.6572) | 28 (162.2284) | 48 (131.3600) |
| 2018-09-01 | 2nd International Suydersee BBQ Contest Zeewolde Flevoland, 3891 DM | 32 / 44 (633.0292) | 33 (159.9772) | 24 (158.8000) | 30 (158.8344) | 25 (155.4176) |
| 2018-05-19 | Tony Stone Low & Slow BBQ Competition Hoofddorp , 2314CG | 17 / 60 (653.6916) | 16 (167.3944) | 13 (165.1544) | 18 (165.7484) | 33 (155.3944) |
| 2017-10-07 | 5th Annual BBQ Society Cook-Off Hoofddorp, 6515 DE | 34 / 47 (639.8744) | 25 (165.7028) | 41 (152.5144) | 23 (165.1428) | 34 (156.5144) |
| 2017-06-03 | Tony Stone Low & Slow BBQ Competition Hoofddorp Netherlands, 2314CG | 54 / 56 (614.8112) | 42 (160.0228) | 49 (151.4400) | 53 (152.5140) | 48 (150.8344) |
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 ↗ | Master | #1147 (68 pts) | #1182 (78 pts) | #1136 (108 pts) | #1491 (58 pts) | #1130 (78 pts) |
| 2023 ↗ | Master | #818 (163 pts) | #746 (223 pts) | #908 (183 pts) | #886 (153 pts) | #778 (203 pts) |
| 2022 ↗ | Master | #937 (139 pts) | #1005 (134 pts) | #1054 (139 pts) | #951 (154 pts) | #867 (174 pts) |
| 2021 ↗ | Master | #1105 (91 pts) | #1075 (111 pts) | #887 (161 pts) | #1127 (96 pts) | #1207 (71 pts) |
| 2020 ↗ | Master | #777 (91 pts) | #779 (106 pts) | #800 (101 pts) | #772 (111 pts) | #1095 (56 pts) |
| 2019 ↗ | Master | #1170 (200 pts) | #916 (320 pts) | #1188 (215 pts) | #1301 (180 pts) | #957 (305 pts) |
| 2018 ↗ | Master | #1368 (160 pts) | #1418 (165 pts) | #1329 (185 pts) | #1454 (155 pts) | #1586 (120 pts) |
| 2017 ↗ | Master | #1722 (120 pts) | #1802 (120 pts) | #1822 (120 pts) | #1743 (130 pts) | #1794 (120 pts) |