#3340 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1500
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headFIRST DUE BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1497
peak 1497 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2013-06-28
latest 2013-06-28
Best ToY finish
#1867
Master 2013
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 64%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 165.98 · weakest Pork (148.57)
Road miles
639
mi across 2 mapped stops · furthest 639 mi
Master avg
637.14 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
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.
FIRST DUE BBQ has 1 rated contest — 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 122 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.
#3321 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 10 years after FIRST DUE BBQ did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-head#3323 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1497
No shared contest yet.
Level with FIRST DUE BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3329 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1509
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3313 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3314 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 50%
- Peak
- 1497
No shared contest yet.
6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where FIRST DUE BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.2860 | 162.2860 | 162.29 | top 48% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 166.2400 | 165.7144 | 165.98 | top 43% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 148.5712 | 148.5712 | 148.57 | top 88% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.5716 | 160.5716 | 160.57 | top 44% |
“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.
The story so far (14 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0 yrs
2013-06-28 → 2013-06-28
Busiest season
2021
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
MI
1 of 2 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
1
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
2 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 165.98 · weakest Pork (148.57)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 1 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 2 contests
Master average
637.14
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
23
9–14 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
639
2 mapped stops · furthest 639 mi
Longest layoff
8.1 yrs
2013-06-28 → 2021-07-16
Power rating
1497
peak 1497 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2013
- First tracked contest Covington Cork and Pork Festival
- First call Covington Cork and Pork Festival
- Career-best overall score637.1432 Covington Cork and Pork Festival
- 2021
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)166.2400 Bordertown BBQ Brawl - One Meat Rib Contest
- Most recent contest Bordertown BBQ Brawl - One Meat Rib Contest
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)
Season by season
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 64% | 88.5% | 88.5% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-07-16 | Bordertown BBQ Brawl - One Meat Rib Contest Sault Ste Marie, MI | — | — | 12 (166.2400) | — | — |
| 2013-06-28 | Covington Cork and Pork Festival Covington, VA | 16 / 25 (637.1432) | 12 (162.2860) | 7 (165.7144) | 22 (148.5712) | 11 (160.5716) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 ↗ | Master | — | — | #1118 (111 pts) | — | — |
| 2013 ↗ | Master | #1867 (95 pts) | #1829 (115 pts) | #1556 (155 pts) | #2536 (65 pts) | #1777 (120 pts) |