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KCBS in Puerto Rico PR

5 tracked contests over 2.6 years, 98 teams on the scoresheets — the 81th busiest of 96 regions on file.

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At a glance

Contests

5
4 scored

This season

0
contests in 2026

Teams competed

98
distinct teams on record

Typical field

35
teams · biggest 41

Avg winning score

678.11
Master · of 720 · best 686.85

Avg category score

155.10
across 539 meat entries

Perfect 180s

0
0 per 1,000 entries

Grand champions

4
titles handed out here

Towns

1
2 venues · 5 recurring contests

Seasons on record

4
2013 – 2016

How Puerto Rico stacks up (against all 96 regions on file)

The bar is PR'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.

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.

SeasonContestsTeamsAvg fieldBiggest Avg winBest180sState champs
2016 1 28 28 28 676.00 676.00 events →
2015 1 34 33 33 674.19 674.19 events →
2014 2 38 38 38 686.85 686.85 events →
2013 1 41 41 41 675.41 675.41 events →

Contests per season

When they cook (month of year)

Field depth over time (average teams per contest, and teams out that season)

What it took to win (average Master winning score, and 180s scored)

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. Puerto Rico marks chicken hardest — 10.08 points below the rest of the sport.

MeatAvg herevs sportEntries180s180s /1k
Chicken 155.05 -10.08 134 0 0
Pork Ribs 157.64 -5.94 139 0 0
Pork 154.84 -9.45 132 0 0
Brisket 152.78 -9.41 134 0 0

Top teams who cook here (by power rating)

#TeamRating
27SHIGGIN & GRINNIN1865
1843 EYZ BBQ1763
363THE SMOKIN' C'S BBQ1709
439T-MAC SMOKIN1690
8165 FINGER BBQ1626
1290R2-BQ1579
1324BBQ FREAKS1576
2120Smoke'Em All1533
2787PLAYING WITH FIRE1511
3483Kilted Kilby BBQ1493
4906BBQ Holics1464
5513Cocineros del Este1450

The regulars (most contests cooked in PR)

TeamContestsGCsLast
PLAYING WITH FIRE412016-02-20
Smoke'Em All42016-02-20
BBQ FREAKS42016-02-20
Cocineros del Este42016-02-20
Sabor A Lena42016-02-20
SHIGGIN & GRINNIN312016-02-20
Backyard BBQ & Grill32016-02-20
Slowly Smoked32016-02-20
S.M.R. BBQ Team32015-02-21
T-MAC SMOKIN212016-02-20
Spartans Team22014-02-21
La Manada Ribs22016-02-20

Highest scores in PR (Master · /720)

ScoreTeamWhere
686.8456R2-BQ Cattlemen's Caribbean BBQ Competition 2014-02-21
683.9772SHIGGIN & GRINNIN Cattlemen's Caribbean BBQ Competition 2014-02-21
676.0000SHIGGIN & GRINNIN 9th Annual Smoking Hot BBQ San Juan 2016-02-20
675.4056PLAYING WITH FIRE Cattlemen's BBQ Competition 2013-07-13
674.1940T-MAC SMOKIN Smokin' Hot BBQ San Juan Puerto Rico 2015-02-21
673.6572Sabor A Lena Smokin' Hot BBQ San Juan Puerto Rico 2015-02-21
673.0512SHIGGIN & GRINNIN Smokin' Hot BBQ San Juan Puerto Rico 2015-02-21
672.5944Spartans Team Cattlemen's BBQ Competition 2013-07-13
672.56003 EYZ BBQ 9th Annual Smoking Hot BBQ San Juan 2016-02-20
672.4796BBQ FREAKS Smokin' Hot BBQ San Juan Puerto Rico 2015-02-21

Most GCs in PR

TeamGCs
R2-BQ1
PLAYING WITH FIRE1
T-MAC SMOKIN1
SHIGGIN & GRINNIN1

Where it happens (towns in PR)

TownContestsSeasonsAvg fieldLast
San Juan54352016-02-20

Where else these teams cook

Of the 97 teams with a recorded finish in PR, this is where else they turn up — the honest picture of which scenes share a travelling field. Follow one to open it up.

RegionShared teamsShare of PR's fieldContests they cooked there
Tennessee TN 6 6% 18 compare →
Wisconsin WI 4 4% 117 compare →
Minnesota MN 4 4% 71 compare →
Iowa IA 4 4% 45 compare →
Illinois IL 4 4% 10 compare →
Arkansas AR 4 4% 7 compare →
Pennsylvania PA 3 3% 44 compare →
Kansas KS 3 3% 25 compare →

On the map (every mapped PR contest — tap a pin)

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