#3424 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1510
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headHOT LOVE BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1494
peak 1494 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2016-06-03
latest 2017-10-13
Best ToY finish
#2212
Master 2017
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 68%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 169.43 · weakest Brisket (151.95)
Road miles
29
mi across 2 mapped stops
Master avg
649.94 / 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.
HOT LOVE 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 123 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.
#3450 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1494
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 5 years after HOT LOVE BBQ did, first appearing in 2021.
⚔ Head-to-head#3446 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1494
No shared contest yet.
Level with HOT LOVE BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3422 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3443 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1494
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3432 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2013, 4 years before HOT LOVE BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171.4284 | 160.0000 | 165.71 | top 58% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.4060 | 162.2860 | 162.85 | top 60% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 173.1428 | 165.7144 | 169.43 | top 33% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.6456 | 146.2628 | 151.95 | top 89% |
“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
1.4 yrs
2016-06-03 → 2017-10-13
Busiest season
2017
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
CA
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
Pork
averages 169.43 · weakest Brisket (151.95)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 2 contests
Master average
649.94
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
91
36–76 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
29
2 mapped stops
Longest layoff
1.4 yrs
2016-06-03 → 2017-10-13
Power rating
1494
peak 1494 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2016
- First tracked contest Horse Town Brew n Que Festival
- Career-best single call (Pork)173.1428 Horse Town Brew n Que Festival
- 2017
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score658.1944 *OC BBQ Competition
- Career-best overall score658.1944 *OC BBQ Competition
- Most recent contest *OC BBQ Competition
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 | 0% | top 61% | 91.4% | 91.4% |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 76% | 89.1% | 89.1% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-10-13 | *OC BBQ Competition Costa Messa, CA | 34 / 56 (658.1944) | 16 (171.4284) | 36 (163.4060) | 25 (165.7144) | 46 (157.6456) |
| 2016-06-03 | Horse Town Brew n Que Festival Norco, CA | 44 / 58 (641.6916) | 51 (160.0000) | 32 (162.2860) | 12 (173.1428) | 56 (146.2628) |
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 | #2212 (60 pts) | #2014 (105 pts) | #2304 (60 pts) | #2260 (60 pts) | #2266 (60 pts) |
| 2016 ↗ | Master | #2274 (60 pts) | #2353 (60 pts) | #2349 (60 pts) | #1840 (125 pts) | #2345 (60 pts) |