#3198 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1500
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headSmitty's Smokehouse BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1500
peak 1500 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2024-08-23
latest 2024-08-23
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 54%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 162.24 · weakest Chicken (158.22)
Road miles
149
mi across 2 mapped stops · furthest 74 mi
Purse competed for
$20K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
325.60 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
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.
Smitty's Smokehouse BBQ has 1 rated contest — 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 121 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.
#3205 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
Level with Smitty's Smokehouse BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3199 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2013, 11 years before Smitty's Smokehouse BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3189 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1508
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 3 years before Smitty's Smokehouse BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3207 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1500
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 3 years before Smitty's Smokehouse BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3206 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 3 years before Smitty's Smokehouse BBQ'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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.2172 | 158.2172 | 158.22 | top 71% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 167.3828 | 157.0972 | 162.24 | top 31% |
| 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.
The story so far (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0 yrs
2024-08-23 → 2024-08-23
Busiest season
2024
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
IL
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
1
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
2 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 162.24 · weakest Chicken (158.22)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 1 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 2 contests
Backyard average
325.60
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
27
13–14 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
149
2 mapped stops · furthest 74 mi
Purse competed for
$19,950
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
5.2 yrs
2019-06-21 → 2024-08-23
Power rating
1500
peak 1500 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2019
- First tracked contest Heritage Days BBQ Showdown Day 1
- First call Heritage Days BBQ Showdown Day 1
- 2024
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score325.6000 Up in Smoke on the Square (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best overall score325.6000 Up in Smoke on the Square (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)167.3828 Up in Smoke on the Square (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Most recent contest Up in Smoke on the Square (BACKYARD ONLY)
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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 54% | 90.4% | 90.4% |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-08-23 | Up in Smoke on the Square (BACKYARD ONLY) Lincoln, IL | 15 / 28 (325.6000) | 20 (158.2172) | 14 (167.3828) | — | — |
| 2019-06-21 | Heritage Days BBQ Showdown Day 1 🏅 Belvidere, IL | — | — | 6 (157.0972) | — | — |