High-water mark
663.3832
career-best overall
92.1% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 663.3832 at Sam's Club National BBQ Tour — 92.1% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2017-09-01
PORKVANA
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1505
peak 1505 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2016-07-29
latest 2017-09-01
Best ToY finish
#1876
Master 2017
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 53%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Brisket
avg 170.59 · weakest Chicken (157.67)
Road miles
138
mi across 2 mapped stops · furthest 69 mi
Master avg
647.41 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs
Storylines (1 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.
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.
PORKVANA 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 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.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3010 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
Level with PORKVANA 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 PORKVANA'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 PORKVANA'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 PORKVANA'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 PORKVANA did, first appearing in 2024.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164.5372 | 150.8116 | 157.67 | top 73% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.3204 | 155.4404 | 158.88 | top 68% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 166.2628 | 154.2628 | 160.26 | top 54% |
| Brisket | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 170.9144 | 170.2628 | 170.59 | top 16% |
“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 (14 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1.1 yrs
2016-07-29 → 2017-09-01
Busiest season
2017
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
MI
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Brisket
averages 170.59 · weakest Chicken (157.67)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 2 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 2 contests
Master average
647.41
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
49
30–34 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
138
2 mapped stops · furthest 69 mi
Longest layoff
1.1 yrs
2016-07-29 → 2017-09-01
Power rating
1505
peak 1505 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2016
- First tracked contest Blues.Brews & Barbecue
- First call Blues.Brews & Barbecue
- Career-best single call (Brisket)170.9144 Blues.Brews & Barbecue
- 2017
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score663.3832 Sam's Club National BBQ Tour
- Career-best overall score663.3832 Sam's Club National BBQ Tour
- Most recent contest Sam's Club National BBQ Tour
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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 44% | 92.1% | 92.1% |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 62% | 87.7% | 87.7% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-09-01 | Sam's Club National BBQ Tour Traverse City, MI | 12 / 27 (663.3832) | 13 (164.5372) | 15 (162.3204) | 9 (166.2628) | 6 (170.2628) |
| 2016-07-29 | Blues.Brews & Barbecue Birch Run, MI | 24 / 39 (631.4292) | 38 (150.8116) | 31 (155.4404) | 29 (154.2628) | 4 (170.9144) |
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 | #1876 (117 pts) | #1974 (112 pts) | #2051 (102 pts) | #1700 (137 pts) | #1577 (167 pts) |
| 2016 ↗ | Master | #2240 (65 pts) | #2353 (60 pts) | #2349 (60 pts) | #2326 (60 pts) | #1406 (210 pts) |