High-water mark
673.1544
career-best overall
93.5% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 673.1544 at The War of Barbeque — 93.5% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2025-06-14
RUMABRONZE
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1481
peak 1481 · rated over 4 contests ⓘ
Contests
23
in the data
First seen
2021-09-25
latest 2025-06-14
Best ToY finish
#784
Master 2025
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
3 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 23 contests
Avg finish
top 73%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
658.81
last 4 Master vs avg 658.81 (-0.00)
Walk rate
57%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±10.62
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 165.39 · weakest Pork (163.27)
Road miles
1,675
mi across 23 mapped stops · furthest 340 mi
Schedule strength
34%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1545)
Master avg
658.81 / 720
4 Master contests · 0 GCs
Storylines (5 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
LUNA SMOKE - Italy ahead in 100% of their meetings
LUNA SMOKE - Italy has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
The comeback
1.8 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 1.8 years, then back at The War of Barbeque (2023-07-01).
- last seen 2021-09-25
- back 2023-07-01
Pork Ribs nemesis
7 of 11
shared pork ribs entries lost
SOUTH BRIXIA ahead 64% of the time
Even in their strongest meat, SOUTH BRIXIA has out-cooked them in 7 of 11 shared pork ribs entries.
The metronome
±1.47%
swing around their own average
Their overall lands within ±1.47% of a perfect score of their own average — whatever the field, you know roughly what they'll turn in.
- averages 91.5% of a perfect score
- 23 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.
RUMABRONZE has 4 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 123 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.
#4072 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1503
No shared contest yet.
Fewer contests behind them than RUMABRONZE has cooked, 5 to 23, which makes theirs the less settled rating of the two.
⚔ Head-to-head#4089 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1481
No shared contest yet.
Level with RUMABRONZE on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#4067 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1501
No shared contest yet.
Fewer contests behind them than RUMABRONZE has cooked, 5 to 23, which makes theirs the less settled rating of the two.
⚔ Head-to-head#4077 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1481
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2013, 8 years before RUMABRONZE's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#4061 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1481
No shared contest yet.
Fewer contests behind them than RUMABRONZE has cooked, 5 to 23, which makes theirs the less settled rating of the two.
⚔ Head-to-head#4065 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
Fewer contests behind them than RUMABRONZE has cooked, 5 to 23, which makes theirs the less settled rating of the two.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 12 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 172.5828 | 149.0628 | 164.12 | top 67% |
| Pork Ribs | 15 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 175.4172 | 148.5372 | 165.39 | top 54% |
| Pork | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 171.9656 | 154.2516 | 163.27 | top 73% |
| Brisket | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 173.1428 | 153.0628 | 163.41 | top 56% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 2 | 0 | top 67% |
| Medium (20–39) | 2 | 0 | top 79% |
The story so far (15 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
3.7 yrs
2021-09-25 → 2025-06-14
Busiest season
2025
8 contests
Contests a season
4.6
across 5 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
GG
2 of 23 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
4
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
15 entries · 0 wins · 8 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 165.39 · weakest Pork (163.27)
Walk rate
57%
a top-10 call in 13 of 23 contests
Overall top-10 rate
4%
1 of 23 contests
Master average
658.81
out of 720 · 4 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
56
21–56 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
1,675
23 mapped stops · furthest 340 mi
Schedule strength
1545
average field rating faced — tougher than 34% of rated contests
Longest layoff
1.8 yrs
2021-09-25 → 2023-07-01
Power rating
1481
peak 1481 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2021
- First tracked contest FO.G & SMOKE
- First call FO.G & SMOKE
- 2023
- First overall top-10 The War of Barbeque
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score660.6972 The War of Barbeque
- Peak power rating (1495) The War of Barbeque
- 2024
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)175.4172 Wild West Fest on Fire (ONE MEAT RIBS)
- 2025
- 10th tracked contest BBQ Expo Master's Challenge
- Career-best overall score673.1544 The War of Barbeque
- 2026
- Most recent contest The War of Barbeque (ONE MEAT CHICKEN)
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +2.5 | The War of Barbeque | 2023-07-01 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -8.6 | The War of Barbeque | 2025-06-14 |
| -7.5 | FO.G & SMOKE | 2021-09-25 |
| -5.4 | BBQ Expo Master's Challenge | 2025-03-29 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 67% | — | — | — |
| 2025 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 79% | 93.5% | 92.4% |
| 2024 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33% | — | — | — |
| 2023 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 53% | 91.8% | 91.8% |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 81% | 89.3% | 89.3% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-20 | The War of Barbeque (ONE MEAT CHICKEN) Peschiera del Garda, 37019 | — | 19 (162.8684) | — | — | — |
| 2026-06-20 | The War of Barbeque (ONE MEAT RIBS) Peschiera del Garda, 37019 | — | — | 23 (148.5372) | — | — |
| 2026-05-23 | BBQ Knife Clash (ONE MEAT CHICKEN) Romano Di Lombardia, GG | — | 8 (155.9084) | — | — | — |
| 2026-05-23 | BBQ Knife Clash (ONE MEAT RIBS) Romano Di Lombardia, GG | — | — | 4 (169.6916) | — | — |
| 2026-05-03 | Grill Contest Rivergaro (ONE MEAT CHICKEN) Rivergaro, PZ | — | 5 (172.0116) | — | — | — |
| 2026-05-03 | Grill Contest Rivergaro (ONE MEAT RIBS) Rivergaro, PZ | — | — | 3 (174.2628) | — | — |
| 2025-10-18 | Fossalta is on Fire BBQ Competition (ONE MEAT CHICKEN) Fossalta di Piave , 30020 | — | 10 (165.6684) | — | — | — |
| 2025-10-18 | Fossalta is on Fire BBQ Competition (ONE MEAT RIBS) Fossalta di Piave , 30020 | — | — | 7 (166.8228) | — | — |
| 2025-08-09 | Wild West Fest on Fire (ONE MEAT CHICKEN) Medvode, 1215 | — | 18 (163.3828) | — | — | — |
| 2025-08-09 | Wild West Fest on Fire (ONE MEAT RIBS) Medvode, 1215 | — | — | 18 (162.8000) | — | — |
| 2025-06-14 | The War of Barbeque Peschiera del Garda, 37019 | 17 / 20 (673.1544) | 16 (165.7372) | 18 (162.3088) | 10 (171.9656) | 5 (173.1428) |
| 2025-06-14 | The War of Barbeque (ONE MEAT CHICKEN) Peschiera del Garda, 37019 | — | 6 (172.5828) | — | — | — |
| 2025-06-14 | The War of Barbeque (ONE MEAT RIBS) Peschiera del Garda, 37019 | — | — | 15 (165.1428) | — | — |
| 2025-03-29 | BBQ Expo Master's Challenge Brescia, 25125 | 22 / 30 (658.1256) | 22 (166.2740) | 27 (159.3600) | 22 (165.0972) | 13 (167.3944) |
| 2024-08-10 | Wild West Fest on Fire (ONE MEAT RIBS) Medvode, 1215 | — | — | 2 (175.4172) | — | — |
| 2024-06-15 | The War of Barbeque (ONE MEAT CHICKEN) Peschiera del Garda, 37019 | — | 22 (149.0628) | — | — | — |
| 2024-06-15 | The War of Barbeque (ONE MEAT RIBS) Peschiera del Garda, 37019 | — | — | 17 (160.5600) | — | — |
| 2024-05-18 | Muehlviertler BBQ Festival (ONE MEAT CHICKEN) Freistadt, Os 4240 | — | 15 (159.4056) | — | — | — |
| 2024-04-06 | "Smokin' Ribs Showdown" (ONE MEAT RIBS) #2 Brescia, 25125 | — | — | 23 (153.1316) | — | — |
| 2024-04-06 | "Smokin' Ribs Showdown" (ONE MEAT RIBS) #1 Brescia, 25125 | — | — | 3 (174.2972) | — | — |
| 2023-10-07 | Country Road & BBQ Contest (ONE MEAT RIBS) CARTIGLIANO, 36050 | — | — | 4 (170.2744) | — | — |
| 2023-07-01 | The War of Barbeque Isola della Scala (VR), 300257 | 8 / 15 (660.6972) | 9 (170.3200) | 6 (168.5944) | 11 (161.7600) | 9 (160.0228) |
| 2021-09-25 | FO.G & SMOKE Modena, 41013 | 13 / 16 (643.2800) | 9 (166.2628) | 7 (169.7028) | 15 (154.2516) | 15 (153.0628) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 ↗ | Master | — | #468 (374 pts) | #407 (461 pts) | — | — |
| 2025 ↗ | Master | #784 (155 pts) | #444 (520 pts) | #492 (463 pts) | #754 (190 pts) | #589 (285 pts) |
| 2024 ↗ | Master | — | #864 (161 pts) | #385 (622 pts) | — | — |
| 2023 ↗ | Master | — | — | #883 (193 pts) | — | — |
| 2021 ↗ | Master | #1072 (101 pts) | #954 (126 pts) | #931 (146 pts) | #1141 (91 pts) | #1124 (91 pts) |