Happy hunting ground
Top 15%
average finish here
SC Festival Of Discovery is their spot: an average finish in the top 15% across 2 visits.
- 2 visits
- best finish 12th
- average top 15%
NO NAME BBQ (FL)
NO NAME BBQ (FL) is a competition barbecue team with 5 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2015 and 2018. Their best overall finish is 8th of 164 at the 39th American Royal World Series of Barbecue (INVITATIONAL) (2018). They finished #745 in the 2018 Master Series Team of the Year standings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1542
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 41 invitational or side-series contest not counted
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
Jul 9, 2015
latest Sep 15, 2018 · 3.2 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
2 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
20% of 5 contests
Avg finish
top 21%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
60%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±9.07
spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 171.87 · weakest Pork Ribs (166.03)
Road miles
933
across 5 mapped stops · furthest 780 mi
Schedule strength
55%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1570)
State championships
0 🏅
won from 1 state-championship entry
Master avg
679.95 / 720
5 Master contests · 0 GCs
Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to NO NAME BBQ (FL), each with one reason worth a look.
NO NAME BBQ (FL) has 4 rated contests, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 51 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#1,929 of the rated field
- Contests
- 57
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 14%
- Peak
- 1606
0–1 in 1 shared contest (0% to NO NAME BBQ (FL))
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team NO NAME BBQ (FL) has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head#1,938 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 50%
- Peak
- 1541
Careers of much the same size, 6 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#1,939 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 29%
- Peak
- 1541
Level with NO NAME BBQ (FL) on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#1,937 of the rated field
- Contests
- 14
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 14%
- Peak
- 1544
This is the highest they've ever been rated, 9 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Compare careers#1,935 of the rated field
- Contests
- 10
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1559
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 10 contests to 5.
⚔ Compare careers#1,933 of the rated field
- Contests
- 10
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 10%
- Peak
- 1542
This is the highest they've ever been rated, 10 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Compare careersFamiliar foes (most-met opponents in overall standings — one meeting per contest)
| Opponent | Meetings | Ahead | Behind | Win rate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MUTTLEY CREW BBQ | 5 | 3 | 2 | 60% | ⚔ compare |
| SWEET SMOKE Q FLORIDA | 5 | 3 | 2 | 60% | ⚔ compare |
By meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 175.4172 | 166.2400 | 171.87 | top 23% |
| Pork Ribs | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 172.0228 | 157.0628 | 166.03 | top 43% |
| Pork | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 177.1428 | 166.8572 | 171.54 | top 22% |
| Brisket | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 177.1772 | 160 | 170.52 | top 29% |
“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 field size and state
Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 39th American Royal World Series of Barbecue (OPEN) | 2 | 8 | 0 | top 19% | Sep 15, 2018 |
| SC Festival Of Discovery | 2 | 12 | 0 | top 15% | Jul 12, 2018 |
More numbers
Busiest season
2018
4 contests
Contests a season
2.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
KS
2 of 5 contests · 3 states in all
Contests visited
3
2 of them more than once
Opponents faced
618
finished ahead 646 times, behind 201
Longest layoff
2.8 yrs
Jul 9, 2015 → May 11, 2018
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20185 milestones
- First overall top-10 39th American Royal World Series of Barbecue (INVITATIONAL)
- Career-best overall score695.4400 39th American Royal World Series of Barbecue (INVITATIONAL)
- Career-best single call (Brisket)177.1772 39th American Royal World Series of Barbecue (INVITATIONAL)
- Peak power rating (1542) 39th American Royal World Series of Barbecue (OPEN)
- Most recent contest 39th American Royal World Series of Barbecue (OPEN)
20153 milestones
- First tracked contest SC Festival of Discovery (TEAMS AND JUDGES FULL)
- First call SC Festival of Discovery (TEAMS AND JUDGES FULL)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score674.8116 SC Festival of Discovery (TEAMS AND JUDGES FULL)
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +13.7 | SC Festival Of Discovery | Jul 12, 2018 |
| +12.8 | SC Festival of Discovery (TEAMS AND JUDGES FULL) | Jul 9, 2015 |
| +7.9 | Boss Hog State Championship Cook-OFF | May 11, 2018 |
| +7.2 | 39th American Royal World Series of Barbecue (OPEN) | Sep 15, 2018 |
Scores over time (% of a perfect score — tap a meat to add it)
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 50% | top 22% | 96.6% | 94.6% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 17% | 93.7% | 93.7% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 2018 | 39th American Royal World Series of Barbecue (OPEN) Kansas City, KS | 156 / 467 (672.0112) | 111 (171.9656) | 84 (172.0228) | 159 (168.0228) | 304 (160) |
| Sep 14, 2018 | 39th American Royal World Series of Barbecue (INVITATIONAL) unrated Kansas City, KS | 8 / 164 (695.4400) | 36 (174.2856) | 95 (167.9772) | 21 (176) | 14 (177.1772) |
| Jul 12, 2018 | SC Festival Of Discovery Greenwood, SC | 12 / 89 (685.0516) | 3 (175.4172) | 29 (168.5372) | 25 (169.6800) | 16 (171.4172) |
| May 11, 2018 | Boss Hog State Championship Cook-OFF 🏅 Waynesboro, GA | 15 / 42 (672.4456) | 9 (171.4172) | 28 (157.0628) | 2 (177.1428) | 21 (166.8228) |
| Jul 9, 2015 | SC Festival of Discovery (TEAMS AND JUDGES FULL) Greenwood, SC | 15 / 90 (674.8116) | 41 (166.2400) | 38 (164.5372) | 29 (166.8572) | 4 (177.1772) |
An unrated contest — an invitational, or a Competitor or Kosher Series board — is in the record but doesn’t move the power rating.