High-water mark
664.9712
career-best overall
92.4% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 664.9712 at Pigmaster's BBQ Challenge — 92.4% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2023-09-22
House of Smoke
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1481
peak 1481 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2019-05-17
latest 2023-09-22
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 88%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Brisket
avg 162.82 · weakest Pork Ribs (148.27)
Road miles
2,028
mi across 2 mapped stops · furthest 2028 mi
Purse competed for
$12K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Master avg
664.97 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
563.44 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 0 GCs
Master and Backyard overall scores sit on different scales (Master is out of 720, Backyard out of 360), so they're kept separate — averaging them together would be misleading.
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.
House of 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 121 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.
#4072 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1503
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#4067 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1501
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 5 years after House of Smoke did, first appearing in 2024.
⚔ Head-to-head#4061 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1481
No shared contest yet.
Level with House of Smoke on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#4065 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#4058 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1501
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#4046 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1482
No shared contest yet.
6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where House of Smoke's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171.9656 | 142.2740 | 157.12 | top 70% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2400 | 130.2972 | 148.27 | top 83% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.9428 | 141.7260 | 152.83 | top 85% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.8228 | 162.8228 | 162.82 | top 79% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NC | 1 | 0 | top 76% |
| CA | 1 | 0 | top 100% |
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 100% |
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 76% |
The story so far (17 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
4.4 yrs
2019-05-17 → 2023-09-22
Busiest season
2023
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
NC
1 of 2 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Brisket
averages 162.82 · weakest Pork Ribs (148.27)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 2 contests
Master average
664.97
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Backyard average
563.44
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
47
8–39 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
2,028
2 mapped stops · furthest 2,028 mi
Purse competed for
$11,980
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
4.4 yrs
2019-05-17 → 2023-09-22
Power rating
1481
peak 1481 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2019
- First tracked contest 16th Annual Burnt Offerings (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score563.4400 16th Annual Burnt Offerings (BACKYARD ONLY)
- 2023
- Career-best overall score664.9712 Pigmaster's BBQ Challenge
- Career-best single call (Chicken)171.9656 Pigmaster's BBQ Challenge
- Most recent contest Pigmaster's BBQ Challenge
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 76% | 92.4% | 92.4% |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 100% | 156.5% | 156.5% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-09-22 | Pigmaster's BBQ Challenge 🏅 Rutherford College, NC | 25 / 33 (664.9712) | 17 (171.9656) | 22 (166.2400) | 23 (163.9428) | 26 (162.8228) |
| 2019-05-17 | 16th Annual Burnt Offerings (BACKYARD ONLY) Riverside, CA | 16 / 16 (563.4400) | 14 (142.2740) | 16 (130.2972) | 16 (141.7260) | — |