High-water mark
673.7144
career-best overall
93.6% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 673.7144 at Sam's Club National BBQ Tour — 93.6% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2017-03-31
ABECEDARIAN OF Q
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1505
peak 1505 · rated over 4 contests ⓘ
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
2016-04-01
latest 2017-05-27
Best ToY finish
#1047
Master 2017
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
2 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 52%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
650.37
last 4 Master vs avg 650.37 (+0.00)
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±16.27
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 166.85 · weakest Pork (159.26)
Road miles
3,605
mi across 4 mapped stops · furthest 1653 mi
Schedule strength
22%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1530)
Master avg
650.37 / 720
4 Master contests · 0 GCs
Storylines (2 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.
The long haul
3,605
road miles between contests
Contest to contest, they've covered roughly 3,605 miles across 4 mapped stops — the longest single trip being 1,653 miles to City of Bedford Blues & BBQ Festival.
- 4 mapped stops
- furthest 1,653 mi
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.
ABECEDARIAN OF Q has 4 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 107 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.
#3015 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1508
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#3010 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
Level with ABECEDARIAN OF Q on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3022 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2014, 3 years before ABECEDARIAN OF Q's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3007 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1508
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2013, 4 years before ABECEDARIAN OF Q's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3019 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1510
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2013, 4 years before ABECEDARIAN OF Q's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3013 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1509
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 8 years after ABECEDARIAN OF Q did, first appearing in 2024.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 168.6172 | 152.5372 | 159.99 | top 62% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 172.0116 | 163.4056 | 166.85 | top 32% |
| Pork | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.5716 | 151.3944 | 159.26 | top 61% |
| Brisket | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 173.7028 | 159.3944 | 164.26 | top 40% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WA | 2 | 0 | top 43% |
| OR | 1 | 0 | top 57% |
| TX | 1 | 0 | top 66% |
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 3 | 0 | top 48% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 66% |
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sam's Club National BBQ Tour | 2 | 3 | 0 | top 43% | 2017-03-31 |
The story so far (14 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1.2 yrs
2016-04-01 → 2017-05-27
Busiest season
2017
2 contests
Contests a season
2
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
WA
2 of 4 contests · 3 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
3
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
4 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 166.85 · weakest Pork (159.26)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 2 of 4 contests
Overall top-10 rate
25%
1 of 4 contests
Master average
650.37
out of 720 · 4 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
123
70–81 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
3,605
4 mapped stops · furthest 1,653 mi
Schedule strength
1530
average field rating faced — tougher than 22% of rated contests
Power rating
1505
peak 1505 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2016
- First tracked contest Sam's Club National BBQ Tour
- First call Sam's Club National BBQ Tour
- 2017
- First overall top-10 Sam's Club National BBQ Tour
- First overall podium Sam's Club National BBQ Tour
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score673.7144 Sam's Club National BBQ Tour
- Career-best overall score673.7144 Sam's Club National BBQ Tour
- Career-best single call (Brisket)173.7028 Sam's Club National BBQ Tour
- Peak power rating (1505) Sam's Club National BBQ Tour
- Most recent contest *BBQ Blues & Brews on the Bay(JUDGES FULL)
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +15.6 | Sam's Club National BBQ Tour | 2017-03-31 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -7.4 | Sam's Club National BBQ Tour | 2016-04-01 |
| -3 | City of Bedford Blues & BBQ Festival | 2016-09-03 |
| -0.5 | *BBQ Blues & Brews on the Bay(JUDGES FULL) | 2017-05-27 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 50% | top 33% | 93.6% | 92.3% |
| 2016 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 71% | 89.1% | 88.3% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-05-27 | *BBQ Blues & Brews on the Bay(JUDGES FULL) North Bend, OR | 21 / 37 (655.9544) | 23 (157.7028) | 19 (165.6800) | 13 (168.5716) | 19 (164.0000) |
| 2017-03-31 | Sam's Club National BBQ Tour Renton, WA | 3 / 30 (673.7144) | 9 (168.6172) | 3 (172.0116) | 14 (159.3828) | 2 (173.7028) |
| 2016-09-03 | City of Bedford Blues & BBQ Festival Bedford, TX | 38 / 58 (641.6228) | 39 (161.1200) | 29 (163.4056) | 44 (157.7028) | 33 (159.3944) |
| 2016-04-01 | Sam's Club National BBQ Tour Renton, WA | 23 / 30 (630.2060) | 26 (152.5372) | 5 (166.3200) | 26 (151.3944) | 13 (159.9544) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 ↗ | Master | #1047 (310 pts) | #1384 (210 pts) | #1084 (320 pts) | #1320 (230 pts) | #1016 (345 pts) |
| 2016 ↗ | Master | #1739 (125 pts) | #2029 (115 pts) | #1307 (240 pts) | #2024 (115 pts) | #1560 (175 pts) |