High-water mark
667.3140
career-best overall
92.7% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 667.3140 at Sam's Club National BBQ Tour — 92.7% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2015-02-20
CHOW'N DOWN THE Q
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1482
peak 1482 · rated over 3 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2013-02-15
latest 2015-02-20
Best ToY finish
#1521
Master 2015
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 74%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
597.42
last 3 Master vs avg 597.42 (-0.00)
Walk rate
33%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±75.98
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 164.92 · weakest Brisket (114.09)
Road miles
356
mi across 3 mapped stops · furthest 117 mi
Schedule strength
10%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1515)
Master avg
597.42 / 720
3 Master contests · 0 GCs
Storylines (2 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
Uncle Kenny's Take-Away ahead in 100% of their meetings
Uncle Kenny's Take-Away has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared 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.
CHOW'N DOWN THE Q 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 116 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.
#4061 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1481
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#4058 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1501
No shared contest yet.
Level with CHOW'N DOWN THE Q on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#4046 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1482
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 6 years after CHOW'N DOWN THE Q did, first appearing in 2019.
⚔ Head-to-head#4040 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1482
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#4035 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1503
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#4057 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1481
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.9998 | 161.0972 | 162.27 | top 77% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.8000 | 145.6116 | 156.14 | top 82% |
| Pork | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 173.1084 | 156.5714 | 164.92 | top 51% |
| Brisket | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 169.7028 | 20.0000 | 114.09 | top 76% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 2 | 0 | top 62% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 100% |
The story so far (15 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
2 yrs
2013-02-15 → 2015-02-20
Busiest season
2013
2 contests
Contests a season
1.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
FL
3 of 3 contests
Contests visited
3
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
3 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 164.92 · weakest Brisket (114.09)
Walk rate
33%
a top-10 call in 1 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
33%
1 of 3 contests
Master average
597.42
out of 720 · 3 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
74
17–70 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
356
3 mapped stops · furthest 117 mi
Schedule strength
1515
average field rating faced — tougher than 10% of rated contests
Longest layoff
1.5 yrs
2013-08-23 → 2015-02-20
Power rating
1482
peak 1482 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2013
- First tracked contest Sam's Club National BBQ Tour
- Peak power rating (1487) Sam's Club National BBQ Tour
- 2015
- First call Sam's Club National BBQ Tour
- First overall top-10 Sam's Club National BBQ Tour
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score667.3140 Sam's Club National BBQ Tour
- Career-best overall score667.3140 Sam's Club National BBQ Tour
- Career-best single call (Pork)173.1084 Sam's Club National BBQ Tour
- Most recent contest Sam's Club National BBQ Tour
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +9.8 | Sam's Club National BBQ Tour | 2015-02-20 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -15.1 | Great Southern Tailgate Cook-off | 2013-08-23 |
| -13.1 | Sam's Club National BBQ Tour | 2013-02-15 |
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)
Team of the Year rank by season
Season by season
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 32% | 92.7% | 92.7% |
| 2013 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 96% | 87.9% | 78.1% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-02-20 | Sam's Club National BBQ Tour Kissimmee, FL | 7 / 22 (667.3140) | 18 (161.7028) | 15 (162.8000) | 5 (173.1084) | 7 (169.7028) |
| 2013-08-23 | Great Southern Tailgate Cook-off Amelia Island, FL | 44 / 44 (491.7944) | 29 (161.0972) | 43 (145.6116) | 22 (165.0856) | 44 (20.0000) |
| 2013-02-15 | Sam's Club National BBQ Tour Tampa, FL | 22 / 24 (633.1428) | 20 (163.9998) | 19 (160.0002) | 19 (156.5714) | 23 (152.5714) |
Career map (orange GC · green top-10 · grey the rest — tap a pin)
Team of the Year standings (rank per category by season — year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 ↗ | Master | #1521 (152 pts) | #2091 (82 pts) | #1998 (97 pts) | #1554 (172 pts) | #1594 (152 pts) |
| 2013 ↗ | Master | #1647 (133 pts) | #1629 (143 pts) | #1637 (148 pts) | #1499 (163 pts) | #1717 (128 pts) |