RAW TALENT

At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)

Rating

1493

peak 1493 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ

Contests

in the data

First seen

2013-06-14

latest 2014-06-13

Best ToY finish

#1970

Master 2013

Grand champs

0 reserve

Category wins

0 podiums

Overall top-10s

of 2 contests

Avg finish

top 65%

overall standings

Best overall

649.0512 / 720

Master · Blue Ridge BBQ & Music Festival

Perfect 180s

Walk rate

50%

contests with a top-10 call

Best single call

176.5600

Brisket · Blue Ridge BBQ & Music Festival

Strongest meat

Brisket

avg 166.57 · weakest Chicken (153.71)

Road miles

mi across 2 mapped stops

Master avg

637.38 / 720

2 Master contests · 0 GCs

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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.

RAW TALENT has 2 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 125 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.

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#3483 of the rated field

1493 ▼ 0 power rating

Contests: 5
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 20%
Peak: 1511

0–2 in 2 shared contests (0% to RAW TALENT)

2 contests in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team RAW TALENT has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.

rated over 5 contests
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#3491 of the rated field

1493 ▼ 0 power rating

Contests: 5
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 0%
Peak: 1503

No shared contest yet.

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Lynnwood Barbecue Co.

#3496 of the rated field

1493 ▼ 0 power rating

Contests: 5
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 20%
Peak: 1504

No shared contest yet.

Level with RAW TALENT on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.

rated over 5 contests
last seen 2018-06-15

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L C COOKERS

#3480 of the rated field

1493 ▼ 0 power rating

Contests: 5
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 0%
Peak: 1505

No shared contest yet.

A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.

rated over 5 contests
last seen 2017-11-08

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SLAB ME SILLY BBQ

#3467 of the rated field

1494 ▲ 0 power rating

Contests: 5
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 0%
Peak: 1494

No shared contest yet.

A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.

rated over 5 contests
last seen 2017-08-25

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SMOKEEATERS BBQ CANADA

#3494 of the rated field

1493 ▼ 0 power rating

Contests: 5
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 20%
Peak: 1513

No shared contest yet.

A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.

rated over 5 contests
last seen 2017-07-07

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By meat

Category	Entries	Calls	Best	Worst	Average	Avg finish
Chicken	2	0	157.7028	149.7140	153.71	top 86%
Pork Ribs	2	0	154.8228	153.1428	153.98	top 78%
Pork	2	0	166.2856	159.9656	163.13	top 52%
Brisket	2	1	176.5600	156.5714	166.57	top 33%

“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.

Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)

Contest	Visits	Best	GCs	Avg finish	Last visit
Blue Ridge BBQ & Music Festival	2	44	0	top 65%	2014-06-13

The story so far (13 numbers that describe this team)

On the trail 1 yrs 2013-06-14 → 2014-06-13

Busiest season 2014 1 contest

Contests a season 1 across 2 seasons in the data

Cooks most in NC 2 of 2 contests

Contests visited 1 1 of them cooked more than once

Most-entered meat Chicken 2 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls

Strongest meat Brisket averages 166.57 · weakest Chicken (153.71)

Walk rate 50% a top-10 call in 1 of 2 contests

Overall top-10 rate 0% 0 of 2 contests

Master average 637.38 out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs

Opponents faced 131 58–109 across every shared overall standing

Road miles 0 2 mapped stops

Power rating 1493 peak 1493 · #null of 6,413 rated

Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)

2013
Jun 14 First tracked contest Blue Ridge BBQ & Music Festival
2014
Jun 13 First call Blue Ridge BBQ & Music Festival
Jun 13 First overall past 90% of a perfect score649.0512 Blue Ridge BBQ & Music Festival
Jun 13 Career-best overall score649.0512 Blue Ridge BBQ & Music Festival
Jun 13 Career-best single call (Brisket)176.5600 Blue Ridge BBQ & Music Festival
Jun 13 Most recent contest Blue Ridge BBQ & Music Festival

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)
2014	1	0	0	0	100%	top 60%	90.1%	90.1%
2013	1	0	0	0	0%	top 70%	86.9%	86.9%

Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)

Date	Event	Overall	Chicken	Ribs	Pork	Brisket
2014-06-13	Blue Ridge BBQ & Music Festival Tryon, NC	44 / 73 (649.0512)	61 (157.7028)	59 (154.8228)	54 (159.9656)	4 (176.5600)
2013-06-14	Blue Ridge BBQ & Music Festival Tryon, NC	68 / 97 (625.7138)	85 (149.7140)	73 (153.1428)	30 (166.2856)	58 (156.5714)

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
2013 ↗	Master	#1970 (75 pts)	#2073 (75 pts)	#2043 (75 pts)	#2080 (75 pts)	#2034 (75 pts)