Announced themselves early
5th
at their very first contest
Finished 5 of 11 at their very first tracked contest, Blowin' Smoke Barbecue Cook Off (2024-07-27).
- 2024-07-27
- 11-team field
Smokin Tales
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1491
peak 1504 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2024-07-27
latest 2026-07-03
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 73%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 164.28 · weakest Pork Ribs (156.29)
Road miles
0
mi across 2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$9K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
636.83 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs
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.
Smokin Tales 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 141 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.
#3573 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1491
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3574 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2024.
⚔ Head-to-head#3559 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, 5 years before Smokin Tales's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3590 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1491
No shared contest yet.
Level with Smokin Tales on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3561 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1492
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 9 years before Smokin Tales's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3581 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1503
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 9 years before Smokin Tales'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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 164.5600 | 164.0000 | 164.28 | top 78% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.2744 | 154.2972 | 156.29 | top 96% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 163.9884 | 151.4284 | 157.71 | top 73% |
| Brisket | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 158.8344 | 158.2744 | 158.55 | top 72% |
“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) | 1 | 0 | top 45% |
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 100% |
The story so far (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1.9 yrs
2024-07-27 → 2026-07-03
Busiest season
2026
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
MT
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 164.28 · weakest Pork Ribs (156.29)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 1 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
50%
1 of 2 contests
Master average
636.83
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
33
6–29 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
0
2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$9,000
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
1.9 yrs
2024-07-27 → 2026-07-03
Power rating
1491
peak 1504 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2024
- First tracked contest Blowin' Smoke Barbecue Cook Off
- First call Blowin' Smoke Barbecue Cook Off
- First overall top-10 Blowin' Smoke Barbecue Cook Off
- Career-best overall score641.6800 Blowin' Smoke Barbecue Cook Off
- Career-best single call (Chicken)164.5600 Blowin' Smoke Barbecue Cook Off
- 2026
- Most recent contest Dillon Days Blowin' Smoke BBQ Cook Off
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 100% | 87.8% | 87.8% |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 45% | 89.1% | 89.1% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-03 | Dillon Days Blowin' Smoke BBQ Cook Off 🏅 Dillon, MT | 26 / 26 (631.9772) | 24 (164.0000) | 24 (158.2744) | 26 (151.4284) | 23 (158.2744) |
| 2024-07-27 | Blowin' Smoke Barbecue Cook Off 🏅 Dillon, MT | 5 / 11 (641.6800) | 7 (164.5600) | 11 (154.2972) | 5 (163.9884) | 6 (158.8344) |