High-water mark
674.7656
career-best overall
93.7% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 674.7656 at Hill City Wine, Brew & BBQ — 93.7% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- Aug 23, 2024
Gone Smokin' BBQ
Gone Smokin' BBQ is a competition barbecue team with 8 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2021 and 2024. Their best overall finish is 8th of 13 at the Rod Trowbridge Memorial Cook Airfield Flyin Cook Off (BACKYARD ONLY) (2021). They are ranked #4256 of 6,485 teams in the KCBS power rankings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1478
peak 1478 · rated over 7 contests
Contests
8
in the data
First seen
Apr 9, 2021
latest Aug 23, 2024 · 3.4 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
13% of 8 contests
Avg finish
top 74%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
653.46 ▲
last 5 Master vs avg 649.86 (+3.60)
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±14.30
spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 166.41 · weakest Pork (158.62)
Road miles
1,848
across 8 mapped stops · furthest 491 mi
Schedule strength
73%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1593)
Purse competed for
$43K
listed at 4 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 6 state-championship entries
Master avg
649.86 / 720
6 Master contests · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
310.85 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 0 GCs
These overall scores sit on different scales (Master out of 720, Backyard out of 360), so they're kept separate — averaging them together would be misleading.
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 ↗ | Master | #1038 (94 pts) | #1074 (109 pts) | #809 (204 pts) | #1528 (54 pts) | #1036 (104 pts) |
| 2023 ↗ | Master | — | — | #1042 (142 pts) | — | — |
| 2021 ↗ | Backyard | — | #209 (108 pts) | #155 (153 pts) | — | — |
| 2021 ↗ | Master | #554 (303 pts) | #430 (458 pts) | #476 (428 pts) | #582 (303 pts) | #546 (343 pts) |
Overall rank by season
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to Gone Smokin' BBQ, each with one reason worth a look.
138 rated teams sit within a point of this rating, so a place on this list means the numbers match — no more than that.
#4,238 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1478
Careers of much the same size, 7 contests to 8, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#4,260 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1478
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 5 years before Gone Smokin' BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#4,255 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1478
They were already cooking in 2016, 5 years before Gone Smokin' BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Compare careers#4,243 of the rated field
- Contests
- 8
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 13%
- Peak
- 1503
Level with Gone Smokin' BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#4,248 of the rated field
- Contests
- 8
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1501
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 6 years before Gone Smokin' BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#4,244 of the rated field
- Contests
- 8
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1478
This is the highest they've ever been rated, 8 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Compare careersBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 171.9772 | 147.9772 | 163.15 | top 65% |
| Pork Ribs | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 174.8572 | 159.9544 | 166.41 | top 51% |
| Pork | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164.5256 | 143.9772 | 158.62 | top 86% |
| Brisket | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.5712 | 147.9312 | 158.91 | 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 field size and state
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 62% |
| Medium (20–39) | 4 | 0 | top 77% |
| Large (40+) | 2 | 0 | top 75% |
More numbers
Busiest season
2021
6 contests
Contests a season
2.7
across 3 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
CO
3 of 8 contests · 4 states in all
Contests visited
7
a different one every time
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
8 entries · 0 wins · 3 calls
Opponents faced
145
finished ahead 54 times, behind 162
Longest layoff
2 yrs
Aug 6, 2021 → Jul 29, 2023
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20243 milestones
- Career-best overall score674.7656 Hill City Wine, Brew & BBQ
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)174.8572 Hill City Wine, Brew & BBQ
- Most recent contest Hill City Wine, Brew & BBQ
20215 milestones
- First tracked contest Rod Trowbridge Memorial Cook Airfield Flyin Cook Off (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First call Rod Trowbridge Memorial Cook Airfield Flyin Cook Off (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall top-10 Rod Trowbridge Memorial Cook Airfield Flyin Cook Off (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Peak power rating (1497) Rod Trowbridge Memorial Cook Airfield Flyin Cook Off (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score654.7316 Central Plains Ribfest Day 1
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +4.3 | Hill City Wine, Brew & BBQ | Aug 23, 2024 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -8.5 | Central Plains Ribfest Day 2 | Jun 19, 2021 |
| -5.3 | Wild West BBQ Cook-Off | May 7, 2021 |
| -4.5 | Central Plains Ribfest Day 1 | Jun 18, 2021 |
| -4.3 | Smokin' Hot Cars & BBQ | Jul 23, 2021 |
| -3 | Rod Trowbridge Memorial Cook Airfield Flyin Cook Off (BACKYARD ONLY) | Apr 9, 2021 |
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 | 100% | top 59% | 93.7% | 93.7% |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | — | — | — |
| 2021 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 33% | top 77% | 91.1% | 89% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 2024 | Hill City Wine, Brew & BBQ 🏅 Hill City, SD | 17 / 29 (674.7656) | 14 (170.8228) | 4 (174.8572) | 27 (160.5144) | 15 (168.5712) |
| Jul 29, 2023 | Colorado Rib Challenge (ONE MEAT RIBS) Castle Rock, CO | — | — | 7 (168.5372) | — | — |
| Aug 6, 2021 | SLV Beat the Heat BBQ 🏅 Alamosa, CO | 29 / 42 (655.8284) | 39 (158.8000) | 19 (168.5600) | 33 (161.6456) | 17 (166.8228) |
| Jul 23, 2021 | Smokin' Hot Cars & BBQ 🏅 Iola, KS | 23 / 28 (646.7316) | 16 (165.1316) | 20 (162.8344) | 23 (164.5256) | 25 (154.2400) |
| Jun 19, 2021 | Central Plains Ribfest Day 2 🏅 Holdrege, NE | 34 / 36 (635.2452) | 34 (157.6456) | 16 (172.0228) | 34 (157.6456) | 34 (147.9312) |
| Jun 18, 2021 | Central Plains Ribfest Day 1 🏅 Holdrege, NE | 32 / 40 (654.7316) | 22 (169.7144) | 31 (161.6800) | 29 (163.3828) | 29 (159.9544) |
| May 7, 2021 | Wild West BBQ Cook-Off 🏅 Lamar, CO | 26 / 35 (631.8632) | 7 (171.9772) | 18 (159.9544) | 33 (143.9772) | 23 (155.9544) |
| Apr 9, 2021 | Rod Trowbridge Memorial Cook Airfield Flyin Cook Off (BACKYARD ONLY) Derby, KS | 8 / 13 (310.8456) | 11 (147.9772) | 6 (162.8684) | — | — |