High-water mark
672.5948
career-best overall
93.4% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 672.5948 at Brew N Q (OPEN) — 93.4% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2017-05-27
TAKING THE BRISKET
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1496
peak 1496 · rated over 3 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2015-09-05
latest 2017-05-27
Best ToY finish
#1162
Master 2017
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 62%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
628.11
last 3 Master vs avg 628.11 (+0.00)
Walk rate
67%
contests with a top-10 call
Top-10 streak
2
and counting
Consistency
±32.50
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 160.56 · weakest Brisket (152.17)
Road miles
338
mi across 3 mapped stops
Schedule strength
24%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1533)
Master avg
628.11 / 720
3 Master contests · 0 GCs
Storylines (3 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
3–0
behind in the head-to-head
BUNCH OF SWINES ahead in 100% of their meetings
BUNCH OF SWINES has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
The comeback
1.6 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 1.6 years, then back at Q Fest (2017-04-29).
- last seen 2015-09-05
- back 2017-04-29
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.
TAKING THE BRISKET has 3 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 118 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.
#3366 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#3363 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1496
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 6 years after TAKING THE BRISKET did, first appearing in 2021.
⚔ Head-to-head#3369 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
Level with TAKING THE BRISKET on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3365 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1496
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#3386 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2014, 3 years before TAKING THE BRISKET's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3356 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1500
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2013, 4 years before TAKING THE BRISKET'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 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 161.1316 | 154.2512 | 157.88 | top 71% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 170.3088 | 154.8228 | 160.56 | top 44% |
| Pork | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 172.5828 | 146.2400 | 157.50 | top 58% |
| Brisket | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 168.5716 | 129.1316 | 152.17 | top 54% |
“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 75% |
| Medium (20–39) | 2 | 0 | top 55% |
The story so far (15 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1.7 yrs
2015-09-05 → 2017-05-27
Busiest season
2017
2 contests
Contests a season
1.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Contests visited
3
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
3 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 160.56 · weakest Brisket (152.17)
Walk rate
67%
a top-10 call in 2 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
67%
2 of 3 contests
Best top-10 run
2
straight contests — and still running
Master average
628.11
out of 720 · 3 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
58
32–37 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
338
3 mapped stops
Schedule strength
1533
average field rating faced — tougher than 24% of rated contests
Longest layoff
1.6 yrs
2015-09-05 → 2017-04-29
Power rating
1496
peak 1496 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2015
- First tracked contest Grillstock
- 2017
- First call Q Fest
- First overall top-10 Q Fest
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score672.5948 Brew N Q (OPEN)
- Career-best overall score672.5948 Brew N Q (OPEN)
- Career-best single call (Pork)172.5828 Brew N Q (OPEN)
- Peak power rating (1496) Brew N Q (OPEN)
- Most recent contest Brew N Q (OPEN)
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +11.1 | Brew N Q (OPEN) | 2017-05-27 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -9.4 | Grillstock | 2015-09-05 |
| -5.6 | Q Fest | 2017-04-29 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 100% | top 52% | 93.4% | 89.5% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 81% | 82.8% | 82.8% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-05-27 | Brew N Q (OPEN) Burton Upon Trent, DE14 1NG | 10 / 34 (672.5948) | 30 (161.1316) | 13 (170.3088) | 4 (172.5828) | 8 (168.5716) |
| 2017-04-29 | Q Fest Bishopsteignton, Devon, TQ149TD | 9 / 12 (615.8400) | 10 (154.2512) | 6 (156.5372) | 12 (146.2400) | 5 (158.8116) |
| 2015-09-05 | Grillstock London, | 21 / 26 (595.8856) | 11 (158.2512) | 11 (154.8228) | 16 (153.6800) | 25 (129.1316) |
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 | #1162 (256 pts) | #1577 (171 pts) | #1206 (271 pts) | #1116 (311 pts) | #1075 (316 pts) |