High-water mark
687.8856
career-best overall
95.5% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 687.8856 at Ignite your Passion — 95.5% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- Jun 14, 2024
RSA's Rollin' Smokehouse Team
RSA's Rollin' Smokehouse Team is a competition barbecue team with 5 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2023 and 2024. Their best overall finish is 6th of 20 at the 19th Annual Burnt Offering BBQ Contest (COMPETITOR SERIES) (2023). They finished #539 in the 2024 Master Series Team of the Year standings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1501
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 41 invitational or side-series contest not counted
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
Oct 20, 2023
latest Jun 28, 2024
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podium
Overall top-10s
2
40% of 5 contests
Avg finish
top 52%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
60%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±10.18
spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 170.26 · weakest Brisket (166.96)
Road miles
106
across 5 mapped stops
Schedule strength
67%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1585)
Purse competed for
$32K
listed at 4 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 4 state-championship entries
Master avg
674.30 / 720
4 Master contests · 0 GCs
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 | #539 (332 pts) | #434 (507 pts) | #513 (462 pts) | #553 (352 pts) | #513 (397 pts) |
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to RSA's Rollin' Smokehouse Team, each with one reason worth a look.
RSA's Rollin' Smokehouse Team has 4 rated contests, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 111 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#3,183 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1511
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#3,176 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1510
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 3 years before RSA's Rollin' Smokehouse Team's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#3,169 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1506
They were already cooking in 2013, 10 years before RSA's Rollin' Smokehouse Team's first contest.
⚔ Compare careers#3,199 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1504
Level with RSA's Rollin' Smokehouse Team on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#3,196 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
Their last contest in the data was back in 2015, 9 years before RSA's Rollin' Smokehouse Team's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#3,170 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1501
Their last contest in the data was back in 2015, 9 years before RSA's Rollin' Smokehouse Team's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careersFamiliar foes (most-met opponents in overall standings — one meeting per contest)
| Opponent | Meetings | Ahead | Behind | Win rate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SoCal Outlaw BBQ | 5 | 1 | 4 | 20% | ⚔ compare |
By meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 176.5600 | 159.3828 | 168.77 | top 47% |
| Pork Ribs | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 170.8456 | 169.1316 | 170.26 | top 42% |
| Pork | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 173.7144 | 156.5372 | 167.11 | top 65% |
| Brisket | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 170.8228 | 161.0972 | 166.96 | top 50% |
“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.
More numbers
Busiest season
2024
4 contests
Contests a season
2.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
CA
5 of 5 contests
Contests visited
5
a different one every time
Opponents faced
94
finished ahead 68 times, behind 99
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20244 milestones
- Career-best overall score687.8856 Ignite your Passion
- Career-best single call (Chicken)176.5600 Ignite your Passion
- Peak power rating (1504) Ignite your Passion
- Most recent contest 20th Annual Burnt Offerings BBQ Contest
20234 milestones
- First tracked contest 19th Annual Burnt Offering BBQ Contest (COMPETITOR SERIES)
- First call 19th Annual Burnt Offering BBQ Contest (COMPETITOR SERIES)
- First overall top-10 19th Annual Burnt Offering BBQ Contest (COMPETITOR SERIES)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score667.3256 19th Annual Burnt Offering BBQ Contest (COMPETITOR SERIES)
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +9.2 | Ignite your Passion | Jun 14, 2024 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -3.8 | Horsetown Brew n' Que Festival | May 31, 2024 |
| -3.2 | 20th Annual Burnt Offerings BBQ Contest | Jun 28, 2024 |
| -1.6 | BBQ Boots & Brew | Apr 12, 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 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 50% | top 58% | 95.5% | 93.7% |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 30% | 92.7% | 92.7% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 2024 | 20th Annual Burnt Offerings BBQ Contest 🏅 Riverside, CA | 22 / 35 (676.4228) | 16 (171.9772) | 19 (170.8228) | 23 (168.5256) | 22 (165.0972) |
| Jun 14, 2024 | Ignite your Passion 🏅 Winchester, CA | 9 / 22 (687.8856) | 3 (176.5600) | 14 (170.8344) | 15 (169.6684) | 5 (170.8228) |
| May 31, 2024 | Horsetown Brew n' Que Festival 🏅 Norco, CA | 24 / 39 (659.3144) | 13 (170.8344) | 5 (170.8456) | 37 (156.5372) | 26 (161.0972) |
| Apr 12, 2024 | BBQ Boots & Brew 🏅 Perris, CA | 26 / 39 (673.5884) | 35 (159.3828) | 20 (169.6684) | 12 (173.7144) | 19 (170.8228) |
| Oct 20, 2023 | 19th Annual Burnt Offering BBQ Contest (COMPETITOR SERIES) unrated Riverside, CA | 6 / 20 (667.3256) | 11 (165.1084) | 6 (169.1316) | — | — |
An unrated contest — an invitational, or a Competitor or Kosher Series board — is in the record but doesn’t move the power rating.