A tough matchup
10–1
behind in the head-to-head
DRILLING & GRILLING ahead in 91% of their meetings
DRILLING & GRILLING has come out ahead in 10 of their 11 shared contests.
Q'IN BY THE FIRE
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1479
peak 1479 · rated over 11 contests ⓘ
Contests
11
in the data
First seen
2016-04-15
latest 2019-08-23
Best ToY finish
#1133
Master 2017
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 11 contests
Avg finish
top 66%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
637.07 ▲
last 5 Master vs avg 630.95 (+6.12)
Walk rate
9%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±15.21
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 160.43 · weakest Brisket (155.23)
Road miles
689
mi across 11 mapped stops · furthest 71 mi
Schedule strength
52%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1567)
Purse competed for
$10K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Master avg
630.95 / 720
11 Master contests · 0 GCs
Storylines (6 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 weak link
−5.2
points behind their best meat
Brisket is where the weekend gets away from them — it averages 5.21 points below their chicken, and turns into a call 0% of the time against 0%.
- Brisket avg 155.23
- Chicken avg 160.43
- 0 calls in 11 entries
A strong matchup
5–0
ahead in the head-to-head
Ahead in 100% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of 4 BOXERS Q in 5 of their 5 shared contests.
Chicken nemesis
10 of 10
shared chicken entries lost
LO' -N- SLO' BBQ ahead 100% of the time
Even in their strongest meat, LO' -N- SLO' BBQ has out-cooked them in 10 of 10 shared chicken entries.
The metronome
±2.11%
swing around their own average
Their overall lands within ±2.11% of a perfect score of their own average — whatever the field, you know roughly what they'll turn in.
- averages 87.6% of a perfect score
- 11 contests
A standing appointment
4
years running at one contest
They've cooked New Holland Summer Fest every year from 2016 to 2019 — the contest they never miss.
- 4 visits in all
- best finish 19th
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.
143 rated teams sit within a point of this rating, so a place on this list means the numbers match — no more than that.
#4137 of the rated field
- Contests
- 11
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 9%
- Peak
- 1517
No shared contest yet.
They've been 1517 at their best, 37 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-head#4188 of the rated field
- Contests
- 12
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1501
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 12 contests to 11, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#4189 of the rated field
- Contests
- 10
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1479
No shared contest yet.
Level with Q'IN BY THE FIRE on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#4165 of the rated field
- Contests
- 10
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 10%
- Peak
- 1479
No shared contest yet.
This is the highest they've ever been rated, 10 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Head-to-head#4163 of the rated field
- Contests
- 10
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1479
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2015, 4 years before Q'IN BY THE FIRE's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#4192 of the rated field
- Contests
- 10
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 10%
- Peak
- 1479
No shared contest yet.
Their rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 10 contests, alongside a 10% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-headFamiliar foes (most-met opponents in overall standings — one meeting per contest)
| Opponent | Meetings | Ahead | Behind | Win rate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DRILLING & GRILLING | 11 | 1 | 10 | 9% | ⚔ compare |
| BAR-B-QUE MAYHAM | 10 | 2 | 8 | 20% | ⚔ compare |
| LO' -N- SLO' BBQ | 10 | 0 | 10 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| DEAD ON Q | 8 | 4 | 4 | 50% | ⚔ compare |
| 50 Shades of Pork | 8 | 2 | 6 | 25% | ⚔ compare |
| CAMP BACON BBQ | 8 | 1 | 7 | 13% | ⚔ compare |
| LITTLE CREEK BAR B CUE COMPANY | 7 | 3 | 4 | 43% | ⚔ compare |
| SMOKEN DUDES BBQ | 7 | 2 | 5 | 29% | ⚔ compare |
| QUEGASM | 7 | 1 | 6 | 14% | ⚔ compare |
| Smokestack Redemption | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| CHECKERED FLAG 500 BBQ | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| PIG PEN BBQ | 6 | 2 | 4 | 33% | ⚔ compare |
| HAWG NATION BBQ | 6 | 2 | 4 | 33% | ⚔ compare |
| PIGHEADED BBQ | 6 | 2 | 4 | 33% | ⚔ compare |
| SMOKIN' STUFF BBQ | 6 | 1 | 5 | 17% | ⚔ compare |
By meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.1316 | 141.0512 | 160.43 | top 61% |
| Pork Ribs | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 172.0228 | 139.3716 | 156.17 | top 67% |
| Pork | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.6800 | 146.7428 | 159.13 | top 60% |
| Brisket | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.5256 | 144.4916 | 155.23 | top 63% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Holland Summer Fest | 4 | 19 | 0 | top 63% | 2019-08-23 |
| The Ironman | 3 | 25 | 0 | top 52% | 2019-04-05 |
| Twin Valley Fire And Smoke | 2 | 29 | 0 | top 79% | 2018-05-18 |
The story so far (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
3.4 yrs
2016-04-15 → 2019-08-23
Busiest season
2017
4 contests
Contests a season
2.8
across 4 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
PA
9 of 11 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
5
3 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
11 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 160.43 · weakest Brisket (155.23)
Walk rate
9%
a top-10 call in 1 of 11 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 11 contests
Master average
630.95
out of 720 · 11 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
265
215–402 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
689
11 mapped stops · furthest 71 mi
Schedule strength
1567
average field rating faced — tougher than 52% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$9,675
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Power rating
1479
peak 1479 · #4173 of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2016
- First tracked contest *Interstate BBQ Festival
- Peak power rating (1495) *Interstate BBQ Festival
- 2017
- First call New Holland Summer Fest
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score655.4172 New Holland Summer Fest
- Career-best overall score655.4172 New Holland Summer Fest
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)172.0228 New Holland Summer Fest
- 2019
- 10th tracked contest The Ironman
- Most recent contest New Holland Summer Fest
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +10.5 | New Holland Summer Fest | 2017-08-25 |
| +4.4 | The Ironman | 2018-04-06 |
| +3.8 | The Ironman | 2017-03-31 |
| +0.4 | Twin Valley Fire And Smoke | 2018-05-18 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -11.4 | Twin Valley Fire and Smoke | 2017-05-19 |
| -7.9 | New Holland Summer Fest | 2019-08-23 |
| -7.7 | *Interstate BBQ Festival | 2017-04-14 |
| -7.4 | New Holland Summer Fest | 2016-08-26 |
| -4.9 | *Interstate BBQ Festival | 2016-04-15 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 71% | 89.7% | 87.8% |
| 2018 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 57% | 90% | 88.9% |
| 2017 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25% | top 65% | 91% | 87.3% |
| 2016 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 78% | 86.3% | 86.2% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-08-23 | New Holland Summer Fest 🏅 New Holland, PA | 54 / 65 (617.9540) | 42 (160.5028) | 54 (154.7772) | 63 (146.7428) | 43 (155.9312) |
| 2019-04-05 | The Ironman Greencastle, PA | 25 / 42 (646.1368) | 24 (162.8228) | 19 (163.9656) | 28 (159.9656) | 21 (159.3828) |
| 2018-08-24 | New Holland Summer Fest(JUDGES FULL) New Holland, PA | 44 / 71 (629.4740) | 18 (167.4056) | 44 (155.9200) | 39 (157.0856) | 50 (149.0628) |
| 2018-05-18 | Twin Valley Fire And Smoke Morgantown, PA | 29 / 47 (643.9084) | 13 (169.1316) | 33 (160.5484) | 30 (158.8456) | 32 (155.3828) |
| 2018-04-06 | The Ironman Greencastle, PA | 29 / 60 (647.8628) | 35 (161.7144) | 35 (157.6800) | 34 (159.9428) | 17 (168.5256) |
| 2017-08-25 | New Holland Summer Fest New Holland, PA | 19 / 69 (655.4172) | 32 (162.8344) | 8 (172.0228) | 37 (159.9428) | 35 (160.6172) |
| 2017-05-19 | Twin Valley Fire and Smoke Morgantown, PA | 51 / 53 (608.9028) | 48 (158.8000) | 50 (147.3372) | 39 (158.2628) | 52 (144.5028) |
| 2017-04-14 | *Interstate BBQ Festival Hagerstown, MD | 51 / 58 (611.8404) | 36 (163.9772) | 57 (139.3716) | 29 (164.0000) | 52 (144.4916) |
| 2017-03-31 | The Ironman Greencastle, PA | 28 / 59 (637.0972) | 43 (155.4172) | 36 (158.2744) | 17 (163.9884) | 31 (159.4172) |
| 2016-08-26 | New Holland Summer Fest New Holland, PA | 52 / 66 (620.3540) | 64 (141.0512) | 47 (155.4172) | 24 (165.6800) | 26 (158.2056) |
| 2016-04-15 | *Interstate BBQ Festival Hagerstown, MD | 32 / 41 (621.5196) | 30 (161.1200) | 35 (152.5028) | 31 (155.9312) | 33 (151.9656) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 ↗ | Master | #1471 (120 pts) | #1558 (125 pts) | #1420 (150 pts) | #1578 (120 pts) | #1448 (140 pts) |
| 2018 ↗ | Master | #1266 (180 pts) | #1065 (275 pts) | #1354 (180 pts) | #1342 (180 pts) | #1225 (220 pts) |
| 2017 ↗ | Master | #1133 (270 pts) | #1287 (240 pts) | #1056 (335 pts) | #1176 (280 pts) | #1261 (240 pts) |
| 2016 ↗ | Master | #1775 (120 pts) | #1883 (120 pts) | #1884 (120 pts) | #1840 (125 pts) | #1839 (120 pts) |