High-water mark
647.3024
career-best overall
179.8% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 647.3024 at Anchor City Cook off — 179.8% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2019-10-11
C-Town Smokers
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1527
peak 1527 · rated over 3 contests ⓘ
Best runs
3
straight top-10s
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2019-10-11
latest 2023-09-08
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
3
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 27%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
433.46
last 3 Backyard vs avg 433.46 (+0.00)
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Top-10 streak
3
and counting
Consistency
±151.21
std dev of Backyard overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 163.39 · weakest Pork Ribs (162.27)
Road miles
0
mi across 3 mapped stops
Schedule strength
83%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1610)
Purse competed for
$16K
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 3 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
433.46 / 360
3 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Storylines (5 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.
A tough matchup
3–0
behind in the head-to-head
THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE SMOKE ahead in 100% of their meetings
THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE SMOKE has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
The comeback
2 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 2 years, then back at Anchor City Cook Off (2021-10-08).
- last seen 2019-10-11
- back 2021-10-08
Announced themselves early
4th
at their very first contest
Finished 4 of 25 at their very first tracked contest, Anchor City Cook off (2019-10-11).
- 2019-10-11
- 25-team field
They cook the hard rooms
1610
average field rating faced
A tougher draw than 83% of rated fields
The fields they enter average a 1610 power rating — a tougher draw than 83% of every rated contest in the data.
- 3 rated contests
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.
C-Town Smokers has 3 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 67 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.
#2288 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1533
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#2277 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1527
No shared contest yet.
Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2019.
⚔ Head-to-head#2280 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1530
No shared contest yet.
Level with C-Town Smokers on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2287 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1527
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#2294 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1537
No shared contest yet.
Their rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 5 contests, alongside a 60% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-head#2281 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1532
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2020, 3 years before C-Town Smokers'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 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 163.9772 | 162.2284 | 163.39 | top 19% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 162.8344 | 161.6684 | 162.27 | top 32% |
| Pork | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
| 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.
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 2 | 0 | top 32% |
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 16% |
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anchor City Cook-Off | 3 | 4 | 0 | top 27% | 2023-09-08 |
The story so far (18 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
3.9 yrs
2019-10-11 → 2023-09-08
Busiest season
2023
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 3 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
MO
3 of 3 contests
Contests visited
1
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
3 entries · 0 wins · 3 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 163.39 · weakest Pork Ribs (162.27)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 3 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
100%
3 of 3 contests
Best top-10 run
3
straight contests — and still running
Backyard average
433.46
out of 360 · 3 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
64
53–22 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
0
3 mapped stops
Schedule strength
1610
average field rating faced — tougher than 83% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$15,700
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 3 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
2 yrs
2019-10-11 → 2021-10-08
Power rating
1527
peak 1527 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2019
- First tracked contest Anchor City Cook off
- First call Anchor City Cook off
- First overall top-10 Anchor City Cook off
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score647.3024 Anchor City Cook off
- Career-best overall score647.3024 Anchor City Cook off
- 2023
- Career-best single call (Chicken)163.9772 Anchor City Cook-Off
- Peak power rating (1527) Anchor City Cook-Off
- Most recent contest Anchor City Cook-Off
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +12.4 | Anchor City Cook off | 2019-10-11 |
| +9.9 | Anchor City Cook Off | 2021-10-08 |
| +4.6 | Anchor City Cook-Off | 2023-09-08 |
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 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 38% | 90.8% | 90.8% |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 26% | 90.6% | 90.6% |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 16% | 179.8% | 179.8% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-09-08 | Anchor City Cook-Off 🏅 Centralia, MO | 5 / 13 (326.8116) | 2 (163.9772) | 6 (162.8344) | — | — |
| 2021-10-08 | Anchor City Cook Off 🏅 Centralia, MO | 5 / 19 (326.2744) | 4 (163.9656) | 5 (162.3088) | — | — |
| 2019-10-11 | Anchor City Cook off 🏅 Centralia, MO | 4 / 25 (647.3024) | 5 (162.2284) | 6 (161.6684) | — | — |