High-water mark
679.3600
career-best overall
94.4% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 679.3600 at Kenai River BBQ Competition — 94.4% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2024-05-31
JC Holy Smokes
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1495
peak 1503 · rated over 4 contests ⓘ
Best runs
3
straight top-10s
Contests
6
in the data
First seen
2023-03-10
latest 2024-07-26
Best ToY finish
#549
Master 2024
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
2 podiums
Overall top-10s
3
of 6 contests
Avg finish
top 66%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
670.21
last 4 Master vs avg 670.21 (+0.00)
Walk rate
83%
contests with a top-10 call
Top-10 streak
3
and counting
Consistency
±11.76
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 168.91 · weakest Brisket (166.42)
Road miles
2,690
mi across 6 mapped stops · furthest 2515 mi
Schedule strength
40%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1552)
Purse competed for
$17K
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
670.21 / 720
4 Master contests · 0 GCs
Storylines (2 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.
A tough matchup
3–0
behind in the head-to-head
SMOKEY HAZE ahead in 100% of their meetings
SMOKEY HAZE has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
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.
JC Holy Smokes 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 124 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.
#3424 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1510
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#3406 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1495
No shared contest yet.
Level with JC Holy Smokes on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3404 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2013, 10 years before JC Holy Smokes's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3402 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1495
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 5 years before JC Holy Smokes's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3415 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1495
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 5 years before JC Holy Smokes's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3414 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 5 years before JC Holy Smokes'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 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 176.0000 | 154.2056 | 168.08 | top 59% |
| Pork Ribs | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 173.7028 | 160.5372 | 168.91 | top 56% |
| Pork | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 170.8572 | 165.6800 | 167.84 | top 63% |
| Brisket | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 171.4172 | 162.8460 | 166.42 | top 70% |
“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 state / province
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| AK | 3 | 0 | top 59% |
| AZ | 1 | 0 | top 84% |
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 3 | 0 | top 59% |
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 84% |
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kenai River BBQ Competition | 2 | 3 | 0 | top 45% | 2024-05-31 |
The story so far (17 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1.4 yrs
2023-03-10 → 2024-07-26
Busiest season
2023
4 contests
Contests a season
3
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
AK
5 of 6 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
3
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
5 entries · 0 wins · 4 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 168.91 · weakest Brisket (166.42)
Walk rate
83%
a top-10 call in 5 of 6 contests
Overall top-10 rate
50%
3 of 6 contests
Best top-10 run
3
straight contests — and still running
Master average
670.21
out of 720 · 4 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
44
15–37 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
2,690
6 mapped stops · furthest 2,515 mi
Schedule strength
1552
average field rating faced — tougher than 40% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$17,000
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Power rating
1495
peak 1503 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2023
- First tracked contest BBQ & Brew Fest - Best in the Southwest
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score650.1600 BBQ & Brew Fest - Best in the Southwest
- First call Break Up Shake Up BBQ Contest (ONE MEAT RIBS)
- First overall top-10 Kenai River BBQ Competition
- First overall podium Kenai River BBQ Competition
- Career-best single call (Chicken)176.0000 Kenai River BBQ Competition
- Peak power rating (1503) Kenai River BBQ Competition
- 2024
- Career-best overall score679.3600 Kenai River BBQ Competition
- Most recent contest Last Frontier BBQ Throwdown
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +9.1 | Kenai River BBQ Competition | 2023-06-30 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -8.5 | Last Frontier BBQ Throwdown | 2024-07-26 |
| -5.7 | BBQ & Brew Fest - Best in the Southwest | 2023-03-10 |
| -0.2 | Kenai River BBQ Competition | 2024-05-31 |
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)
Team of the Year rank by season
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 | 0 | 100% | top 72% | 94.4% | 94% |
| 2023 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 75% | top 59% | 94.1% | 92.2% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-07-26 | Last Frontier BBQ Throwdown 🏅 Eagle River, AK | 7 / 8 (673.6344) | 5 (171.4172) | 5 (173.1428) | 6 (165.6800) | 8 (163.3944) |
| 2024-05-31 | Kenai River BBQ Competition Soldotna, AK | 4 / 7 (679.3600) | 4 (166.8228) | 2 (173.7028) | 5 (167.4172) | 4 (171.4172) |
| 2023-06-30 | Kenai River BBQ Competition Soldotna, AK | 3 / 9 (677.6916) | 2 (176.0000) | 4 (167.9884) | 4 (170.8572) | 6 (162.8460) |
| 2023-04-29 | Break Up Shake Up BBQ Contest (ONE MEAT CHICKEN) Palmer, AK | — | 6 (171.9656) | — | — | — |
| 2023-04-29 | Break Up Shake Up BBQ Contest (ONE MEAT RIBS) Palmer, AK | — | — | 7 (169.1656) | — | — |
| 2023-03-10 | BBQ & Brew Fest - Best in the Southwest 🏅 Yuma, AZ | 27 / 32 (650.1600) | 32 (154.2056) | 27 (160.5372) | 19 (167.4056) | 18 (168.0116) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 ↗ | Master | #549 (320 pts) | #569 (340 pts) | #563 (390 pts) | #600 (305 pts) | #596 (310 pts) |
| 2023 ↗ | Master | #612 (266 pts) | #633 (291 pts) | #572 (383 pts) | #635 (271 pts) | #695 (241 pts) |