A tough matchup
3–0
behind in the head-to-head
B'S QUE ahead in 100% of their meetings
B'S QUE has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
Salty Qrew
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1472
peak 1472 · rated over 3 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2025-10-10
latest 2026-07-24
Best ToY finish
#806
Master 2026
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 93%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
635.09
last 3 Master vs avg 635.09 (+0.00)
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±4.57
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Brisket
avg 162.87 · weakest Chicken (154.22)
Road miles
34
mi across 3 mapped stops
Schedule strength
55%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1570)
Purse competed for
$14K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 3 state-championship entries
Master avg
635.09 / 720
3 Master contests · 0 GCs
Still inside their first twelve months: see what a first season usually looks like.
Storylines (1 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.
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.
Salty Qrew 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 130 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.
#4559 of the rated field
- Contests
- 17
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 18%
- Peak
- 1513
0–1 in 1 shared contest (0% to Salty Qrew)
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Salty Qrew has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head#4525 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1472
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#4558 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1471
No shared contest yet.
Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2025.
⚔ Head-to-head#4529 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1472
No shared contest yet.
Level with Salty Qrew on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#4533 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1472
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#4522 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1472
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2022, 4 years before Salty Qrew's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.9544 | 152.4916 | 154.22 | top 98% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.9772 | 158.8228 | 161.87 | top 84% |
| Pork | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.8228 | 153.6456 | 156.13 | top 93% |
| Brisket | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.1544 | 158.3316 | 162.87 | top 71% |
“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 state / province
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| PA | 2 | 0 | top 97% |
| MD | 1 | 0 | top 86% |
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 2 | 0 | top 91% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 98% |
The story so far (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0.8 yrs
2025-10-10 → 2026-07-24
Busiest season
2026
2 contests
Contests a season
1.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
PA
2 of 3 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
3
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
3 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Brisket
averages 162.87 · weakest Chicken (154.22)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 3 contests
Master average
635.09
out of 720 · 3 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
143
20–170 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
34
3 mapped stops
Schedule strength
1570
average field rating faced — tougher than 55% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$14,300
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 3 state-championship entries
Power rating
1472
peak 1472 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2025
- First tracked contest MD State BBQ Bash
- Career-best overall score641.5544 MD State BBQ Bash
- Career-best single call (Brisket)169.1544 MD State BBQ Bash
- Peak power rating (1495) MD State BBQ Bash
- 2026
- Most recent contest Smoke on the Rail BBQ Festival (Day 1)
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -11.8 | York County BBQ Festival (Day 1) | 2026-06-12 |
| -11.3 | Smoke on the Rail BBQ Festival (Day 1) | 2026-07-24 |
| -5.2 | MD State BBQ Bash | 2025-10-10 |
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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 97% | 87.8% | 87.8% |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 86% | 89.1% | 89.1% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-24 | Smoke on the Rail BBQ Festival (Day 1) 🏅 New Freedom, PA | 42 / 43 (631.9316) | 41 (155.9544) | 39 (158.8228) | 40 (158.8228) | 38 (158.3316) |
| 2026-06-12 | York County BBQ Festival (Day 1) 🏅 Delta, PA | 24 / 25 (631.7828) | 25 (154.2056) | 21 (162.8116) | 24 (153.6456) | 20 (161.1200) |
| 2025-10-10 | MD State BBQ Bash 🏅 Bel Air, MD | 25 / 29 (641.5544) | 29 (152.4916) | 22 (163.9772) | 26 (155.9312) | 13 (169.1544) |
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 | #806 (115 pts) | #887 (110 pts) | #852 (130 pts) | #825 (115 pts) | #744 (135 pts) |
| 2025 ↗ | Master | #1461 (54 pts) | #1494 (54 pts) | #1268 (69 pts) | #1474 (54 pts) | #988 (114 pts) |