- Contests
- 9
- Teams
- 80
- Avg field
- 22
- Avg win
- 669.68
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
This season
Teams competed
Typical field
Avg winning score
Avg category score
Perfect 180s
Grand champions
Towns
Seasons on record
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.
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Contests held5 #81 of 96 ▼ median 34.5
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Teams competing98 #64 of 92 ▼ median 249
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Judging severity (lowest average category score = toughest room)155.10 #3 of 70 ▼ median 163.34
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Perfect-180 rate0 /1k #70 of 70 ▼ median 5.5 /1k
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.
- Contests
- 13
- Teams
- 37
- Avg field
- 24
- Avg win
- 670.30
- Contests
- 13
- Teams
- 181
- Avg field
- 34
- Avg win
- 685.07
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.
| Season | Contests | Teams | Avg field | Biggest | Avg win | Best | 180s | State 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.
Top teams who cook here (by power rating)
| # | Team | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| 27 | SHIGGIN & GRINNIN | 1865 |
| 184 | 3 EYZ BBQ | 1763 |
| 363 | THE SMOKIN' C'S BBQ | 1709 |
| 439 | T-MAC SMOKIN | 1690 |
| 816 | 5 FINGER BBQ | 1626 |
| 1290 | R2-BQ | 1579 |
| 1324 | BBQ FREAKS | 1576 |
| 2120 | Smoke'Em All | 1533 |
| 2787 | PLAYING WITH FIRE | 1511 |
| 3483 | Kilted Kilby BBQ | 1493 |
| 4906 | BBQ Holics | 1464 |
| 5513 | Cocineros del Este | 1450 |
The regulars (most contests cooked in PR)
| Team | Contests | GCs | Last |
|---|---|---|---|
| PLAYING WITH FIRE | 4 | 1 | 2016-02-20 |
| Smoke'Em All | 4 | — | 2016-02-20 |
| BBQ FREAKS | 4 | — | 2016-02-20 |
| Cocineros del Este | 4 | — | 2016-02-20 |
| Sabor A Lena | 4 | — | 2016-02-20 |
| SHIGGIN & GRINNIN | 3 | 1 | 2016-02-20 |
| Backyard BBQ & Grill | 3 | — | 2016-02-20 |
| Slowly Smoked | 3 | — | 2016-02-20 |
| S.M.R. BBQ Team | 3 | — | 2015-02-21 |
| T-MAC SMOKIN | 2 | 1 | 2016-02-20 |
| Spartans Team | 2 | — | 2014-02-21 |
| La Manada Ribs | 2 | — | 2016-02-20 |
Highest scores in PR (Master · /720)
| Score | Team | Where |
|---|---|---|
| 686.8456 | R2-BQ | Cattlemen's Caribbean BBQ Competition 2014-02-21 |
| 683.9772 | SHIGGIN & GRINNIN | Cattlemen's Caribbean BBQ Competition 2014-02-21 |
| 676.0000 | SHIGGIN & GRINNIN | 9th Annual Smoking Hot BBQ San Juan 2016-02-20 |
| 675.4056 | PLAYING WITH FIRE | Cattlemen's BBQ Competition 2013-07-13 |
| 674.1940 | T-MAC SMOKIN | Smokin' Hot BBQ San Juan Puerto Rico 2015-02-21 |
| 673.6572 | Sabor A Lena | Smokin' Hot BBQ San Juan Puerto Rico 2015-02-21 |
| 673.0512 | SHIGGIN & GRINNIN | Smokin' Hot BBQ San Juan Puerto Rico 2015-02-21 |
| 672.5944 | Spartans Team | Cattlemen's BBQ Competition 2013-07-13 |
| 672.5600 | 3 EYZ BBQ | 9th Annual Smoking Hot BBQ San Juan 2016-02-20 |
| 672.4796 | BBQ FREAKS | Smokin' Hot BBQ San Juan Puerto Rico 2015-02-21 |
Most GCs in PR
| Team | GCs |
|---|---|
| R2-BQ | 1 |
| PLAYING WITH FIRE | 1 |
| T-MAC SMOKIN | 1 |
| SHIGGIN & GRINNIN | 1 |
Where it happens (towns in PR)
| Town | Contests | Seasons | Avg field | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| San Juan | 5 | 4 | 35 | 2016-02-20 |
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.
| Region | Shared teams | Share of PR's field | Contests 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 → |