High-water mark
685.1312
career-best overall
95.2% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 685.1312 at Murphysboro BBQ Cookoff — 95.2% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2018-09-21
Carol Lou's Smokehouse
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1510
peak 1513 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2018-09-21
latest 2023-10-06
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 40%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 172.54 · weakest Pork Ribs (168.57)
Road miles
97
mi across 2 mapped stops · furthest 48 mi
Purse competed for
$8K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Master avg
679.64 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs
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.
Carol Lou's Smokehouse 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 99 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.
#2813 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 29%
- Peak
- 1535
No shared contest yet.
7 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Carol Lou's Smokehouse's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head#2829 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1510
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 5 years after Carol Lou's Smokehouse did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-head#2816 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1510
No shared contest yet.
Level with Carol Lou's Smokehouse on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2806 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1518
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2014, 9 years before Carol Lou's Smokehouse's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2821 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1520
No shared contest yet.
6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Carol Lou's Smokehouse's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head#2814 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 67%
- Peak
- 1527
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 4 years before Carol Lou's Smokehouse'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 | 173.1084 | 171.9656 | 172.54 | top 34% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 172.5944 | 164.5372 | 168.57 | top 49% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 172.5600 | 165.1428 | 168.85 | top 52% |
| Brisket | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 174.2856 | 165.0856 | 169.69 | top 38% |
“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 contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 54% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 25% |
The story so far (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
5 yrs
2018-09-21 → 2023-10-06
Busiest season
2023
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
IL
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 172.54 · weakest Pork Ribs (168.57)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 1 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 2 contests
Master average
679.64
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
91
56–38 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
97
2 mapped stops · furthest 48 mi
Purse competed for
$7,500
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
5 yrs
2018-09-21 → 2023-10-06
Power rating
1510
peak 1513 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2018
- First tracked contest Murphysboro BBQ Cookoff
- First call Murphysboro BBQ Cookoff
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score685.1312 Murphysboro BBQ Cookoff
- Career-best overall score685.1312 Murphysboro BBQ Cookoff
- Career-best single call (Brisket)174.2856 Murphysboro BBQ Cookoff
- 2023
- Most recent contest Smokin' for Garrett
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 54% | 93.6% | 93.6% |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 25% | 95.2% | 95.2% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-10-06 | Smokin' for Garrett 🏅 Mt. Carmel, IL | 14 / 26 (674.1484) | 11 (171.9656) | 18 (164.5372) | 11 (172.5600) | 16 (165.0856) |
| 2018-09-21 | Murphysboro BBQ Cookoff Murphysboro, IL | 15 / 59 (685.1312) | 15 (173.1084) | 17 (172.5944) | 36 (165.1428) | 8 (174.2856) |