Heavy Smoke

Heavy Smoke is a competition barbecue team with 8 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2015 and 2017. Their best overall finish is 16th of 57 at the East Central State BBQ Cook-Off, Paola Roots Festival (2017). They are ranked #2300 of 6,491 teams in the KCBS power rankings.

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At a glance (the record in numbers)

Power ranking

#2,300

of 6,491 rated · rankings

Rating

1527

peak 1527 · rated over 7 contests1 invitational or side-series contest not counted

Contests

in the data

First seen

Jun 26, 2015

latest Aug 25, 2017 · 2.2 years on the trail

Grand champs

0 reserve

Category wins

0 podiums

Overall top-10s

0% of 8 contests

Avg finish

top 46%

overall standings

Best overall

670.2516 / 720

Master · East Central State BBQ Cook-Off, Paola Roots Festival

Perfect 180s

Current form

649.95 ▼

last 5 Master vs avg 652.14 (-2.19)

Walk rate

38%

contests with a top-10 call

Best single call

173.7716

Chicken · Great Lenexa BBQ Battle-Kansas State Championship

Consistency

±11.88

spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)

Strongest meat

Pork Ribs

avg 165.27 · weakest Brisket (160.90)

Road miles

159

across 8 mapped stops

Schedule strength

20%

of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1528)

State championships

0 🏅

won from 3 state-championship entries

Master avg

652.14 / 720

8 Master contests · 0 GCs

Storylines (7 found in their record)

Each card leads with the number behind the story, straight from their results.

High-water mark

670.2516 career-best overall

93.1% of a perfect 720

Their best day on record: 670.2516 at East Central State BBQ Cook-Off, Paola Roots Festival — 93.1% of a perfect 720.

Master
Aug 25, 2017

A tough matchup

7–1 behind in the head-to-head

Big Wigs BBQ ahead in 88% of their meetings

Big Wigs BBQ has come out ahead in 7 of their 8 shared contests.

The weak link

−4.4 points behind their best meat

Brisket is where the weekend gets away from them — it averages 4.37 points below their pork ribs, and turns into a call 0% of the time against 25%.

Brisket avg 160.90
Pork Ribs avg 165.27
0 calls in 8 entries

A strong matchup

6–0 ahead in the head-to-head

Ahead in 100% of their meetings

They've finished ahead of Royal Smoke in 6 of their 6 shared contests.

Pork Ribs nemesis

6 of 8 shared pork ribs entries lost

Big Wigs BBQ ahead 75% of the time

Even in their strongest meat, Big Wigs BBQ has out-cooked them in 6 of 8 shared pork ribs entries.

A June team

Top 33% average finish in June

Something about June: average finish in the top 33% across 3 contests, versus top 46% the rest of the year.

3 June contests
top 46% the rest of the year

The metronome

±1.65% swing around their own average

Their overall lands within ±1.65% of a perfect score of their own average — whatever the field, you know roughly what they'll turn in.

averages 90.6% of a perfect score
8 contests

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The teams rated closest to Heavy Smoke, each with one reason worth a look.

61 rated teams sit within a point of this rating, so a place on this list means the numbers match — no more than that.

XTREME TEXAS COOKERS

#2,309 of the rated field

1527 power rating

Contests: 18
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 6%
Peak: 1560

1–0 in 1 shared contest (100% to Heavy Smoke)

One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Heavy Smoke has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.

rated over 14 contests
last seen Oct 30, 2024

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MOTLEY QUE CREW

#2,307 of the rated field

1527 power rating

Contests: 41
GCs: 1
Top-10s: 24%
Peak: 1608

0–1 in 1 shared contest (0% to Heavy Smoke)

They've been 1608 at their best, 81 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.

rated over 40 contests
last seen Oct 30, 2024

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Creek Smoke BBQ

#2,306 of the rated field

1527 power rating

Contests: 7
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 29%
Peak: 1527

Careers of much the same size, 7 contests to 8, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.

rated over 7 contests
last seen Sep 11, 2026

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Smokin Gopher

#2,298 of the rated field

1527 power rating

Contests: 7
GCs: 1
Top-10s: 29%
Peak: 1529

Their rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 7 contests, alongside a 29% overall top-10 rate.

rated over 7 contests
last seen May 30, 2025

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Q MOON

#2,311 of the rated field

1527 power rating

Contests: 6
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 33%
Peak: 1537

They turned up 9 years after Heavy Smoke did, first appearing in 2024.

rated over 6 contests
last seen Sep 25, 2026

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Big & Ugly BBQ

#2,308 of the rated field

1527 power rating

Contests: 5
GCs: 1
Top-10s: 60%
Peak: 1533

Level with Heavy Smoke on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.

rated over 5 contests
last seen Apr 17, 2026

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Familiar foes (most-met opponents in overall standings — one meeting per contest)

Opponent	Meetings	Ahead	Behind	Win rate
Big Wigs BBQ	8	1	7	13%	⚔ compare
Dead Last BBQ	7	2	5	29%	⚔ compare
B & C SMOKERS	7	1	6	14%	⚔ compare
Royal Smoke	6	6	0	100%	⚔ compare
DUNN UP BBQ	6	5	1	83%	⚔ compare
Knights of the Holy Grill	6	4	2	67%	⚔ compare
Griswold Grillers	6	3	3	50%	⚔ compare
FUNNY FARM BBQ	6	3	3	50%	⚔ compare
BEAUX HAWG BBQ	6	2	4	33%	⚔ compare
SOCIAL SMOKERS BBQ SQUAD	6	0	6	0%	⚔ compare
PORK 'N MINDY	5	5	0	100%	⚔ compare
KC BUTT-RUBBERS	5	5	0	100%	⚔ compare
BIG BULLS BBQ BUNCH	5	4	1	80%	⚔ compare
HUNKA HUNKA BURNIN' RUB	5	1	4	20%	⚔ compare
Four Men and A Pig	5	1	4	20%	⚔ compare

By meat

Category	Entries	Calls	Best	Worst	Average	Avg finish
Chicken	8	1	173.7716	150.2628	161.78	top 55%
Pork Ribs	8	2	173.1428	158.2744	165.27	top 39%
Pork	8	0	171.4172	156.5600	164.19	top 44%
Brisket	8	0	171.4172	146.7888	160.90	top 48%

“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	Avg finish	Last visit
East Central State BBQ Cook-Off, Paola Roots Festival	3	16	top 40%	Aug 25, 2017
37th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue (OPEN)	2	159	top 74%	Oct 29, 2016
Great Lenexa BBQ Battle-Kansas State Championship	2	24	top 20%	Jun 24, 2016

More numbers

Busiest season 2016 4 contests

Contests a season 2.7 across 3 seasons in the data

Most contests held in KS 8 of 8 contests

Contests visited 4 3 of them more than once

Opponents faced 832 finished ahead 719 times, behind 741

Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)

20173 milestones

Aug 25 Career-best overall score670.2516 East Central State BBQ Cook-Off, Paola Roots Festival
Aug 25 Peak power rating (1527) East Central State BBQ Cook-Off, Paola Roots Festival
Aug 25 Most recent contest East Central State BBQ Cook-Off, Paola Roots Festival

20161 milestone

Jun 24 Career-best single call (Chicken)173.7716 Great Lenexa BBQ Battle-Kansas State Championship

20153 milestones

Jun 26 First tracked contest Great Lenexa BBQ Battle - Kansas State Championship
Jun 26 First overall past 90% of a perfect score649.0856 Great Lenexa BBQ Battle - Kansas State Championship
Aug 28 First call East Central State BBQ Cook Off Paola Roots Festival

Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)

📈 Biggest rating jumps

Swing	Contest	Date
+11.8	Great Lenexa BBQ Battle-Kansas State Championship	Jun 24, 2016
+8.3	East Central State BBQ Cook-Off, Paola Roots Festival	Aug 25, 2017
+7.8	Great Lenexa BBQ Battle - Kansas State Championship	Jun 26, 2015
+3.7	East Central State BBQ Cook Off Paola Roots Festival	Aug 28, 2015

📉 Toughest weekends

Swing	Contest	Date
-3	Great Lenexa BBQ Battle-Kansas State Championship	Jun 23, 2017
-1.4	37th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue (OPEN)	Oct 29, 2016

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	Walk rate	Avg finish	Best overall (% of perfect)	Avg overall (% of perfect)
2017	2	50%	top 43%	93.1%	90.3%
2016	4	25%	top 53%	92.5%	90.8%
2015	2	50%	top 34%	90.6%	90.4%

Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)

Date	Event	Overall	Chicken	Ribs	Pork	Brisket
Aug 25, 2017	East Central State BBQ Cook-Off, Paola Roots Festival Paola, KS	16 / 57 (670.2516)	31 (160.5716)	7 (173.1428)	29 (165.1200)	11 (171.4172)
Jun 23, 2017	Great Lenexa BBQ Battle-Kansas State Championship 🏅 Lenexa, KS	106 / 184 (629.5544)	127 (154.2744)	52 (164.5256)	65 (163.9656)	149 (146.7888)
Oct 29, 2016	37th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue (OPEN) Kansas City, KS	336 / 557 (647.8856)	177 (168)	375 (159.4172)	238 (166.2284)	410 (154.2400)
Oct 28, 2016	37th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue (INVITATIONAL) unrated Kansas City, KS	159 / 180 (656.4456)	157 (163.9428)	129 (165.1084)	59 (171.4172)	171 (155.9772)
Aug 26, 2016	East Central State BBQ Cook-Off, Paola Roots Festival Paola, KS	31 / 61 (645.6112)	46 (157.7144)	25 (164.5600)	24 (164.5256)	34 (158.8112)
Jun 24, 2016	Great Lenexa BBQ Battle-Kansas State Championship 🏅 Lenexa, KS	24 / 183 (666.3544)	6 (173.7716)	40 (166.8572)	119 (156.5600)	22 (169.1656)
Aug 28, 2015	East Central State BBQ Cook Off Paola Roots Festival Paola, KS	27 / 65 (651.9656)	60 (150.2628)	8 (170.2972)	21 (166.2972)	20 (165.1084)
Jun 26, 2015	Great Lenexa BBQ Battle - Kansas State Championship 🏅 Lenexa, KS	50 / 183 (649.0856)	46 (165.7372)	100 (158.2744)	102 (159.3828)	37 (165.6912)

An unrated contest — an invitational, or a Competitor or Kosher Series board — is in the record but doesn’t move the power rating.

Heavy Smoke

At a glance (the record in numbers)

Power ranking

Rating

Contests

First seen

Grand champs

Category wins

Overall top-10s

Avg finish

Best overall

Perfect 180s

Current form

Walk rate

Best single call

Consistency

Strongest meat

Road miles

Schedule strength

State championships

Master avg

Storylines (7 found in their record)

High-water mark

A tough matchup

The weak link

A strong matchup

Pork Ribs nemesis

A June team

The metronome

Teams like this (closest power rating)

Familiar foes (most-met opponents in overall standings — one meeting per contest)

By meat

Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)

More numbers

Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)

Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)

📈 Biggest rating jumps

📉 Toughest weekends

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

Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)

Career map (orange GC · green top-10 · grey the rest — tap a pin)