PAPA ROCK'S

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

Rating

1489

peak 1489 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ

Contests

in the data

First seen

2013-05-10

latest 2013-05-10

Best ToY finish

#2671

Master 2013

Grand champs

0 reserve

Category wins

0 podiums

Overall top-10s

of 1 contests

Avg finish

top 86%

overall standings

Best overall

632.5714 / 720

Master · Sam's Club National BBQ Tour

Perfect 180s

Walk rate

100%

contests with a top-10 call

Best single call

168.5714

Chicken · Sam's Club National BBQ Tour

Strongest meat

Chicken

avg 168.57 · weakest Brisket (144.00)

Master avg

632.57 / 720

1 Master contest · 0 GCs

⚔ Compare with another team

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.

PAPA ROCK'S 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 152 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.

ADAM'S RIB

#3700 of the rated field

1489 ▼ 0 power rating

Contests: 8
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 25%
Peak: 1516

0–1 in 1 shared contest (0% to PAPA ROCK'S)

One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team PAPA ROCK'S has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.

rated over 8 contests
last seen 2017-08-18

⚔ Head-to-head

Lazy J Smoke Show

#3712 of the rated field

1489 ▼ 0 power rating

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

No shared contest yet.

5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where PAPA ROCK'S's is still finding its level.

rated over 5 contests
last seen 2026-08-07

⚔ Head-to-head

Just Blowin Smoke

#3666 of the rated field

1490 ▲ 0 power rating

Contests: 5
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 40%
Peak: 1504

No shared contest yet.

Level with PAPA ROCK'S on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.

rated over 5 contests
last seen 2026-07-10

⚔ Head-to-head

RJ's Bob-E-Que

#3698 of the rated field

1489 ▼ 0 power rating

Contests: 5
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 0%
Peak: 1500

No shared contest yet.

5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where PAPA ROCK'S's is still finding its level.

rated over 5 contests
last seen 2023-09-27

⚔ Head-to-head

SMOKEY BONES

#3697 of the rated field

1489 ▼ 0 power rating

Contests: 5
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 0%
Peak: 1489

No shared contest yet.

Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2013.

rated over 5 contests
last seen 2022-10-21

⚔ Head-to-head

DIFFERENT POINT OF QUE

#3683 of the rated field

1489 ▲ 0 power rating

Contests: 5
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 20%
Peak: 1489

No shared contest yet.

5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where PAPA ROCK'S's is still finding its level.

rated over 5 contests
last seen 2019-06-14

⚔ Head-to-head

By meat

Category	Entries	Calls	Best	Worst	Average	Avg finish
Chicken	1	1	168.5714	168.5714	168.57	top 31%
Pork Ribs	1	0	152.5716	152.5716	152.57	top 79%
Pork	1	1	167.4284	167.4284	167.43	top 28%
Brisket	1	0	144.0000	144.0000	144.00	top 100%

“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 (11 numbers that describe this team)

On the trail 0 yrs 2013-05-10 → 2013-05-10

Busiest season 2013 1 contest

Cooks most in TN 1 of 1 contests

Contests visited 1 0 of them cooked more than once

Most-entered meat Chicken 1 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls

Strongest meat Chicken averages 168.57 · weakest Brisket (144.00)

Walk rate 100% a top-10 call in 1 of 1 contests

Overall top-10 rate 0% 0 of 1 contests

Master average 632.57 out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs

Opponents faced 28 4–24 across every shared overall standing

Power rating 1489 peak 1489 · #null of 6,413 rated

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

2013
May 10 First tracked contest Sam's Club National BBQ Tour
May 10 First call Sam's Club National BBQ Tour
May 10 Career-best overall score632.5714 Sam's Club National BBQ Tour
May 10 Career-best single call (Chicken)168.5714 Sam's Club National BBQ Tour

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)
2013	1	0	0	0	100%	top 86%	87.9%	87.9%

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

Date	Event	Overall	Chicken	Ribs	Pork	Brisket
2013-05-10	Sam's Club National BBQ Tour Knoxville, TN	25 / 29 (632.5714)	9 (168.5714)	23 (152.5716)	8 (167.4284)	29 (144.0000)

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	#2671 (54 pts)	#1660 (139 pts)	#2546 (64 pts)	#1623 (149 pts)	#2676 (54 pts)