High-water mark
335.3716
career-best overall
93.2% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 335.3716 at The High on the Hog Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) — 93.2% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2022-05-20
Chokin %22N%22 tha Smoke
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1497
peak 1497 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2022-05-20
latest 2024-05-17
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 64%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 171.40 · weakest Chicken (160.85)
Road miles
0
mi across 2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$8K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
332.25 / 360
2 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
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.
Chokin %22N%22 tha Smoke 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 117 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.
#3340 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1500
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3366 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
Level with Chokin %22N%22 tha Smoke on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3363 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1496
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3329 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1509
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 7 years before Chokin %22N%22 tha Smoke's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3342 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2013, 9 years before Chokin %22N%22 tha Smoke's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3365 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1496
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2015, 9 years before Chokin %22N%22 tha Smoke'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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164.5372 | 157.1544 | 160.85 | top 78% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 171.9656 | 170.8344 | 171.40 | top 24% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.8916 | 166.8916 | 166.89 | top 33% |
| Brisket | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The High on the Hog Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) | 2 | 18 | 0 | top 64% | 2024-05-17 |
The story so far (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
2 yrs
2022-05-20 → 2024-05-17
Busiest season
2024
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
TN
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
1
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 171.40 · weakest Chicken (160.85)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 2 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 2 contests
Backyard average
332.25
out of 360 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
57
24–42 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
0
2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$7,700
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
2 yrs
2022-05-20 → 2024-05-17
Power rating
1497
peak 1497 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2022
- First tracked contest The High on the Hog Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First call The High on the Hog Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score335.3716 The High on the Hog Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best overall score335.3716 The High on the Hog Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- 2024
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)171.9656 The High on the Hog Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Most recent contest The High on the Hog Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 67% | 91.4% | 91.4% |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 62% | 93.2% | 93.2% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-05-17 | The High on the Hog Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Winchester, TN | 26 / 39 (329.1200) | 34 (157.1544) | 9 (171.9656) | 13 (166.8916) | — |
| 2022-05-20 | The High on the Hog Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) 🏅 Winchester, TN | 18 / 29 (335.3716) | 20 (164.5372) | 7 (170.8344) | — | — |