A tough matchup
4–0
behind in the head-to-head
913 BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings
913 BBQ has come out ahead in 4 of their 4 shared contests.
SMOKIN STACHE BBQ
SMOKIN STACHE BBQ is a competition barbecue team with 5 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2022 and 2023. Their best overall finish is 211th of 211 at the American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest (2023).
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1493
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 22 invitational or side-series contests not counted
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
Sep 29, 2022
latest Sep 27, 2023 · 1 year on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
0% of 5 contests
Avg finish
top 84%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±78.10
spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 168.28 · weakest Chicken (154.62)
Road miles
19
across 5 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$114K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
607.36 / 720
4 Master contests · 0 GCs
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SMOKIN STACHE BBQ has 2 rated contests, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 136 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#3,548 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1492
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
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- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1493
Level with SMOKIN STACHE BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
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- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1503
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⚔ Compare careers#3,525 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1493
They were already cooking in 2014, 8 years before SMOKIN STACHE BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Compare careers#3,528 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 6 years before SMOKIN STACHE BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#3,546 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 6 years before SMOKIN STACHE BBQ'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 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2512 | 147.3600 | 154.62 | top 91% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.1428 | 152.0228 | 163.15 | top 71% |
| Pork | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 176.0228 | 157.6572 | 168.28 | top 48% |
| Brisket | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.3944 | 148.5256 | 159.96 | top 74% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest | 2 | 211 | 0 | top 96% | Sep 27, 2023 |
| American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest | 2 | 308 | 0 | top 73% | Sep 27, 2023 |
More numbers
Busiest season
2022
3 contests
Contests a season
2.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
KS
5 of 5 contests
Contests visited
2
2 of them more than once
Opponents faced
671
finished ahead 292 times, behind 1,155
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20231 milestone
- Most recent contest American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest
20224 milestones
- First tracked contest American Royal World Series of Barbecue - INVITATIONAL CONTEST
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score659.4168 American Royal World Series of Barbecue - INVITATIONAL CONTEST
- Career-best overall score659.9428 American Royal World Series of Barbecue - OPEN CONTEST
- Career-best single call (Pork)176.0228 American Royal World Series of Barbecue - INVITATIONAL CONTEST
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 92% | 88.5% | 77.1% |
| 2022 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 76% | 91.7% | 91.6% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 27, 2023 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest unrated Kansas City, KS | 211 / 211 (473.0400) | — | 165 (166.8572) | 208 (157.6572) | 211 (148.5256) |
| Sep 27, 2023 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 412 / 487 (637.0516) | 473 (147.3600) | 322 (164.5944) | 287 (166.2972) | 384 (158.8000) |
| Oct 1, 2022 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - SIDES Kansas City, KS | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sep 29, 2022 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - OPEN CONTEST 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 308 / 505 (659.9428) | 481 (150.2628) | 196 (169.1428) | 103 (173.1428) | 207 (167.3944) |
| Sep 29, 2022 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - INVITATIONAL CONTEST unrated Kansas City, KS | 228 / 249 (659.4168) | 204 (166.2512) | 248 (152.0228) | 38 (176.0228) | 194 (165.1200) |
An unrated contest — an invitational, or a Competitor or Kosher Series board — is in the record but doesn’t move the power rating.