Riding a hot streak
5
straight overall top-10s
Currently on a 5-contest overall top-10 run.
- career best 5
SMOKEY HAZE
SMOKEY HAZE is a competition barbecue team with 7 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2022 and 2024. They have won 1 Grand Championship, at the Kenai River BBQ Competition (2023), and finished Reserve Grand Champion twice. They are ranked #2045 of 6,476 teams in the KCBS power rankings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1537
peak 1538 · rated over 5 contests
Contests
7
in the data
First seen
Jul 22, 2022
latest Jul 26, 2024 · 2 years on the trail
Grand champs
1
2 reserve · wins it all 14% of the time
Category wins
6
18 podiums
Overall top-10s
5
71% of 7 contests
Best top-10 run
5
straight overall top-10s, still running
Avg finish
top 37%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±5.27
spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 173.70 · weakest Pork Ribs (172.56)
Road miles
977
across 7 mapped stops · furthest 174 mi
Schedule strength
11%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1516)
Purse competed for
$13K
listed at 4 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 1 state-championship entry
Master avg
691.71 / 720
5 Master contests · 1 GC
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 | #510 (365 pts) | #497 (415 pts) | #561 (395 pts) | #488 (415 pts) | #497 (415 pts) |
| 2023 ↗ | Master | #404 (490 pts) | #345 (651 pts) | #361 (702 pts) | #429 (490 pts) | #431 (465 pts) |
| 2022 ↗ | Master | #729 (231 pts) | #775 (231 pts) | #758 (256 pts) | #708 (256 pts) | #758 (231 pts) |
Overall rank by season
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to SMOKEY HAZE, each with one reason worth a look.
78 rated teams sit within a point of this rating, so a place on this list means the numbers match — no more than that.
#2,046 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1537
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 7, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#2,058 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1536
Their last contest in the data was back in 2016, 8 years before SMOKEY HAZE's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#2,061 of the rated field
- Contests
- 10
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1536
Level with SMOKEY HAZE on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#2,043 of the rated field
- Contests
- 9
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 11%
- Peak
- 1537
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 3 years before SMOKEY HAZE's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#2,041 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1537
They were already cooking in 2013, 9 years before SMOKEY HAZE's first contest.
⚔ Compare careers#2,042 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 14%
- Peak
- 1537
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 5 years before SMOKEY HAZE's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careersBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 6 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 176.5716 | 171.9656 | 173.70 | top 36% |
| Pork Ribs | 6 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 177.7144 | 163.9428 | 172.56 | top 30% |
| Pork | 5 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 178.8572 | 168.5600 | 173.59 | top 28% |
| Brisket | 5 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 176 | 166.8228 | 172.78 | top 35% |
“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.
Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kenai River BBQ Competition | 2 | 1 | 1 | top 27% | May 31, 2024 |
More numbers
Busiest season
2023
4 contests · 1 GC
Contests a season
2.3
across 3 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
AK
7 of 7 contests
Contests visited
4
1 of them more than once
First title
Jun 30, 2023
Kenai River BBQ Competition
Opponents faced
19
finished ahead 23 times, behind 8
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20244 milestones
- Career-best overall score698.2400 Kenai River BBQ Competition
- Career-best single call (Pork)178.8572 Kenai River BBQ Competition
- Peak power rating (1538) Kenai River BBQ Competition
- Most recent contest Last Frontier BBQ Throwdown
20231 milestone
- First Grand Championship Kenai River BBQ Competition
20228 milestones
- First tracked contest 1st Annual Deltana Fair BBQ Competition
- First call 1st Annual Deltana Fair BBQ Competition
- First category win (Pork Ribs) 1st Annual Deltana Fair BBQ Competition
- First overall top-10 1st Annual Deltana Fair BBQ Competition
- First overall podium 1st Annual Deltana Fair BBQ Competition
- First Reserve Championship 1st Annual Deltana Fair BBQ Competition
- First multi-meat day 1st Annual Deltana Fair BBQ Competition
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score693.0512 1st Annual Deltana Fair BBQ Competition
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +16.4 | Kenai River BBQ Competition | Jun 30, 2023 |
| +9.5 | 1st Annual Deltana Fair BBQ Competition | Jul 22, 2022 |
| +8.2 | Smoky Hayes BBQ Competition & Cook-Off | Jul 7, 2023 |
| +3.5 | Kenai River BBQ Competition | May 31, 2024 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -1.1 | Last Frontier BBQ Throwdown | Jul 26, 2024 |
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 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 100% | top 53% | 97% | 95.9% |
| 2023 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 100% | top 22% | 96.3% | 96.2% |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 100% | top 33% | 96.3% | 96.3% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 26, 2024 | Last Frontier BBQ Throwdown 🏅 Eagle River, AK | 5 / 8 (682.2056) | 4 (172.5600) | 7 (163.9428) | 4 (169.7028) | 1 (176) |
| May 31, 2024 | Kenai River BBQ Competition Soldotna, AK | 3 / 7 (698.2400) | 2 (174.8456) | 1 (177.7144) | 2 (178.8572) | 5 (166.8228) |
| Jul 7, 2023 | Smoky Hayes BBQ Competition & Cook-Off Delta Junction, AK | 2 / 6 (691.3944) | 3 (173.1544) | 1 (176.5600) | 2 (168.5600) | 2 (173.1200) |
| Jun 30, 2023 | Kenai River BBQ Competition Soldotna, AK | 1 / 9 (693.6800) | 3 (173.1200) | 2 (170.2856) | 1 (177.7144) | 2 (172.5600) |
| Apr 29, 2023 | Break Up Shake Up BBQ Contest (ONE MEAT CHICKEN) Palmer, AK | — | 2 (176.5716) | — | — | — |
| Apr 29, 2023 | Break Up Shake Up BBQ Contest (ONE MEAT RIBS) Palmer, AK | — | — | 3 (174.2856) | — | — |
| Jul 22, 2022 | 1st Annual Deltana Fair BBQ Competition Delta Junction, AK | 2 / 6 (693.0512) | 2 (171.9656) | 1 (172.5600) | 1 (173.1200) | 2 (175.4056) |