The one to beat
2×
one call ahead of them
BREWBQUE has finished one call ahead of NO CHANCE BBQ CREW THOMSON GA 2 times — their closest competition in the data.
NO CHANCE BBQ CREW THOMSON GA
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1473
peak 1502 · rated over 4 contests ⓘ
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
2016-05-27
latest 2019-05-24
Best ToY finish
#1954
Master 2018
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 88%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
584.66
last 4 Master vs avg 584.66 (+0.00)
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±66.58
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 160.25 · weakest Chicken (121.95)
Road miles
0
mi across 4 mapped stops
Schedule strength
93%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1637)
Purse competed for
$40K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Master avg
584.66 / 720
4 Master contests · 0 GCs
Storylines (4 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.
A tough matchup
4–0
behind in the head-to-head
Killer B's BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings
Killer B's BBQ has come out ahead in 4 of their 4 shared contests.
They cook the hard rooms
1637
average field rating faced
A tougher draw than 93% of rated fields
The fields they enter average a 1637 power rating — a tougher draw than 93% of every rated contest in the data.
- 4 rated contests
A standing appointment
4
years running at one contest
They've cooked Papa Joe's Banjo-B-Que & Music Festival every year from 2016 to 2019 — the contest they never miss.
- 4 visits in all
- best finish 38th
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.
NO CHANCE BBQ CREW THOMSON GA 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 146 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.
#4469 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1473
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#4475 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1509
No shared contest yet.
They've been 1509 at their best, 36 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-head#4462 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1473
No shared contest yet.
Level with NO CHANCE BBQ CREW THOMSON GA on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#4482 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1473
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 6 years after NO CHANCE BBQ CREW THOMSON GA did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-head#4468 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1503
No shared contest yet.
They've been 1503 at their best, 30 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-head#4459 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1473
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-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.8344 | 20.0000 | 121.95 | top 86% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.8460 | 150.7540 | 154.24 | top 87% |
| Pork | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.9656 | 155.9884 | 160.25 | top 81% |
| Brisket | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.6572 | 143.3372 | 148.22 | top 90% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Papa Joe's Banjo-B-Que & Music Festival | 4 | 38 | 0 | top 88% | 2019-05-24 |
The story so far (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
3 yrs
2016-05-27 → 2019-05-24
Busiest season
2019
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 4 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
GA
4 of 4 contests
Contests visited
1
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
4 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 160.25 · weakest Chicken (121.95)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 4 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 4 contests
Master average
584.66
out of 720 · 4 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
134
31–242 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
0
4 mapped stops
Schedule strength
1637
average field rating faced — tougher than 93% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$40,000
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Power rating
1473
peak 1502 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2016
- First tracked contest Papa Joe's Banjo-B-Que & Music Festival (GBC Qualifier)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score655.3032 Papa Joe's Banjo-B-Que & Music Festival (GBC Qualifier)
- Career-best overall score655.3032 Papa Joe's Banjo-B-Que & Music Festival (GBC Qualifier)
- Career-best single call (Pork)167.9656 Papa Joe's Banjo-B-Que & Music Festival (GBC Qualifier)
- Peak power rating (1502) Papa Joe's Banjo-B-Que & Music Festival (GBC Qualifier)
- 2019
- Most recent contest Papa Joe's Banjo-B-Que & Music Festival
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +1.9 | Papa Joe's Banjo-B-Que & Music Festival (GBC Qualifier) | 2016-05-27 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -10.5 | *Papa Joe's Banjo-B-Que & Music Festival (GBC Qualifier) | 2017-05-26 |
| -9.2 | *Papa Joe's Banjo-B-Que & Music Festival | 2018-05-25 |
| -9 | Papa Joe's Banjo-B-Que & Music Festival | 2019-05-24 |
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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 97% | 83.4% | 83.4% |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 100% | 66% | 66% |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 99% | 84.4% | 84.4% |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 58% | 91% | 91% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-05-24 | Papa Joe's Banjo-B-Que & Music Festival 🏅 Evans, GA | 70 / 72 (600.3080) | 71 (146.7656) | 70 (150.7540) | 67 (155.9884) | 69 (146.8000) |
| 2018-05-25 | *Papa Joe's Banjo-B-Que & Music Festival Evans, GA | 72 / 72 (475.2908) | 72 (20.0000) | 68 (151.3940) | 64 (158.7996) | 70 (145.0972) |
| 2017-05-26 | *Papa Joe's Banjo-B-Que & Music Festival (GBC Qualifier) Evans, GA | 66 / 67 (607.7368) | 60 (154.2056) | 65 (151.9656) | 64 (158.2284) | 63 (143.3372) |
| 2016-05-27 | Papa Joe's Banjo-B-Que & Music Festival (GBC Qualifier) Evans, GA | 38 / 66 (655.3032) | 37 (166.8344) | 40 (162.8460) | 30 (167.9656) | 48 (157.6572) |
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 | #1955 (60 pts) | #2049 (60 pts) | #2026 (60 pts) | #2029 (60 pts) | #2010 (60 pts) |
| 2018 ↗ | Master | #1954 (60 pts) | #2012 (60 pts) | #1996 (60 pts) | #2030 (60 pts) | #1990 (60 pts) |
| 2017 ↗ | Master | #2212 (60 pts) | #2286 (60 pts) | #2304 (60 pts) | #2260 (60 pts) | #2266 (60 pts) |
| 2016 ↗ | Master | #2274 (60 pts) | #2353 (60 pts) | #2349 (60 pts) | #2326 (60 pts) | #2345 (60 pts) |