#3573 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1491
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headSWEET SAUCE BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1491
peak 1491 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2014-06-20
latest 2016-07-01
Best ToY finish
#1965
Master 2016
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 74%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 165.98 · weakest Brisket (158.84)
Road miles
61
mi across 2 mapped stops
Master avg
649.38 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs
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.
SWEET SAUCE BBQ 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 142 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.
#3556 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1512
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 8 years after SWEET SAUCE BBQ did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-head#3574 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
Level with SWEET SAUCE BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3559 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3590 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1491
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3561 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1492
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 173.7028 | 158.2628 | 165.98 | top 55% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 163.4400 | 157.1088 | 160.27 | top 70% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 166.2856 | 162.2860 | 164.29 | top 54% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.7028 | 155.9772 | 158.84 | top 77% |
“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 contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 67% |
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 81% |
The story so far (14 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
2 yrs
2014-06-20 → 2016-07-01
Busiest season
2016
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
KY
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 165.98 · weakest Brisket (158.84)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 2 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
50%
1 of 2 contests
Master average
649.38
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
37
10–30 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
61
2 mapped stops
Longest layoff
2 yrs
2014-06-20 → 2016-07-01
Power rating
1491
peak 1491 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2014
- First tracked contest Barbourville BBQ Festival
- First call Barbourville BBQ Festival
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score654.8004 Barbourville BBQ Festival
- Career-best overall score654.8004 Barbourville BBQ Festival
- Career-best single call (Chicken)173.7028 Barbourville BBQ Festival
- 2016
- First overall top-10 Fire on the Mountain
- Most recent contest Fire on the Mountain
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 67% | 89.4% | 89.4% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 81% | 90.9% | 90.9% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-07-01 | Fire on the Mountain Leburn, KY | 10 / 15 (643.9656) | 12 (158.2628) | 7 (163.4400) | 5 (166.2856) | 12 (155.9772) |
| 2014-06-20 | Barbourville BBQ Festival Barbourville, KY | 22 / 27 (654.8004) | 8 (173.7028) | 25 (157.1088) | 20 (162.2860) | 20 (161.7028) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 ↗ | Master | #1965 (115 pts) | #2097 (105 pts) | #1737 (145 pts) | #1664 (165 pts) | #2086 (105 pts) |