KCBS in Massachusetts MA

How Massachusetts stacks up (against all 94 regions on file)

The bar is Massachusetts's standing on that measure: a full bar is the region that leads it, an empty one is the region that trails it. Rate-based measures need a minimum body of results before a region is ranked at all, so a single hot weekend can't buy a place. The median is the middle region, not the average — one huge region would drag an average somewhere no region actually is.

• Contests held
  49 #40 of 94 ▲ median 37
• Teams competing
  310 #44 of 88 ▲ median 249.5
• Contests this season
  4 #31 of 75 ▲ median 2.5
• Field depth
  25 teams #48 of 61 ▼ median 31 teams
• Winning score
  693.45 #30 of 52 ▼ median 694.24
• Judging severity (lowest average category score = toughest room)
  163.95 #23 of 45 = median 163.95
• Perfect-180 rate
  5.4 /1k #27 of 45 ▼ median 5.7 /1k
• State championships
  21 #31 of 51 ▲ median 5

Regions like this one

Matched on the shape of the scene — how many contests it runs, how deep the fields get, how the room scores and how often it hands out a 180 — not on the map. Counts are compared on a log scale, because 5 contests to 15 is a different scene while 300 to 310 is the same one.

Season by season

Click a column heading to re-sort. Winning score is the Master overall (of 720); a season with no scored Master contest leaves it blank.

How the room scores (every judged meat, against the sport as a whole)

A lower average means a harder room. “vs sport” is this region's average minus the same meat's average everywhere KCBS is scored. Massachusetts marks brisket hardest — 0.59 points below the rest of the sport.

Where else these teams cook

Of the 284 teams with a recorded finish in Massachusetts, this is where else they turn up — the honest picture of which scenes share a travelling field. Follow one to open it up.