The comeback
2.1 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 2.1 years, then back at The Great Alabama Public Television BBQ Cook-Off (ONE MEAT PORK) (2024-05-04).
- last seen 2022-04-02
- back 2024-05-04
Smoke Showing BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1457
peak 1457 · rated over 4 contests ⓘ
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
2021-10-08
latest 2024-07-27
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 5 contests
Avg finish
top 96%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 159.09 · weakest Pork Ribs (150.37)
Road miles
913
mi across 5 mapped stops · furthest 805 mi
Schedule strength
60%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1576)
Purse competed for
$26K
listed at 5 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
619.79 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
390.10 / 360
2 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
Master and Backyard overall scores sit on different scales (Master is 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.
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.
Smoke Showing BBQ has 4 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 128 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.
#5224 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1457
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#5204 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1457
No shared contest yet.
Level with Smoke Showing BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#5203 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1457
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#5201 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1457
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 5 years before Smoke Showing BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#5231 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1457
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 5 years before Smoke Showing BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#5208 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1503
No shared contest yet.
They've been 1503 at their best, 46 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.5372 | 150.1828 | 159.09 | top 96% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.9544 | 134.1716 | 150.37 | top 94% |
| Pork | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2284 | 149.6228 | 158.93 | top 86% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.2628 | 150.2288 | 156.25 | top 85% |
“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.
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smokin' Saddles Double Header (Day 2) | 2 | 19 | 0 | top 98% | 2024-07-27 |
The story so far (18 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
2.8 yrs
2021-10-08 → 2024-07-27
Busiest season
2024
3 contests
Contests a season
1.7
across 3 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
AL
3 of 5 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
3
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
4 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 159.09 · weakest Pork Ribs (150.37)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 5 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 5 contests
Master average
619.79
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Backyard average
390.10
out of 360 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
60
3–84 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
913
5 mapped stops · furthest 805 mi
Schedule strength
1576
average field rating faced — tougher than 60% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$25,700
listed at 5 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
2.1 yrs
2022-04-02 → 2024-05-04
Power rating
1457
peak 1457 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2021
- First tracked contest Scottsboro BBQ Festival (BACKYARD & KIDS QUE ONLY)
- Peak power rating (1486) Scottsboro BBQ Festival (BACKYARD & KIDS QUE ONLY)
- 2022
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score482.6628 Fire at the Foothills (BACKYARD ONLY)
- 2024
- Career-best overall score645.0060 Smokin' Saddles Double Header (Day 1)
- Career-best single call (Chicken)168.5372 Smokin' Saddles Double Header (Day 1)
- Most recent contest Smokin' Saddles Double Header (Day 2)
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -14 | Scottsboro BBQ Festival (BACKYARD & KIDS QUE ONLY) | 2021-10-08 |
| -10.8 | Smokin' Saddles Double Header (Day 1) | 2024-07-26 |
| -9.5 | Fire at the Foothills (BACKYARD ONLY) | 2022-04-02 |
| -8.7 | Smokin' Saddles Double Header (Day 2) | 2024-07-27 |
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 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 98% | 89.6% | 86.1% |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 90% | 134.1% | 134.1% |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 100% | 82.7% | 82.7% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-07-27 | Smokin' Saddles Double Header (Day 2) 🏅 Dodge City, KS | 19 / 20 (594.5832) | 20 (160.5600) | 20 (134.1716) | 19 (149.6228) | 19 (150.2288) |
| 2024-07-26 | Smokin' Saddles Double Header (Day 1) 🏅 Dodge City, KS | 20 / 20 (645.0060) | 18 (168.5372) | 20 (155.9888) | 20 (158.2172) | 15 (162.2628) |
| 2024-05-04 | The Great Alabama Public Television BBQ Cook-Off (ONE MEAT PORK) Birmingham, AL | — | — | — | 11 (166.2284) | — |
| 2022-04-02 | Fire at the Foothills (BACKYARD ONLY) Chelsea, AL | 18 / 20 (482.6628) | 19 (157.0628) | 16 (163.9544) | 17 (161.6456) | — |
| 2021-10-08 | Scottsboro BBQ Festival (BACKYARD & KIDS QUE ONLY) Scottsboro, AL | 31 / 31 (297.5428) | 31 (150.1828) | 30 (147.3600) | — | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 ↗ | Backyard | — | #317 (75 pts) | #302 (90 pts) | — | — |
| 2021 ↗ | Backyard | — | #275 (56 pts) | #278 (56 pts) | — | — |