BBQ BROS Competition Team

At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)

Power ranking

#2147

of 6,413 rated · rankings

Rating

1532

peak 1534 · rated over 9 contests ⓘ

Best runs

straight top-10s

Contests

in the data

First seen

2017-09-22

latest 2019-07-20

Best ToY finish

#493

Master 2019

Grand champs

0 reserve

Category wins

5 podiums

Overall top-10s

of 9 contests

Avg finish

top 45%

overall standings

Best overall

684.0000 / 720

Master · 4th Meat Smoke and Beer BBQ Competition

Perfect 180s

Current form

662.32 ▲

last 5 Master vs avg 654.38 (+7.94)

Walk rate

78%

contests with a top-10 call

Top-10 streak

best run (overall)

Best single call

177.7144

Pork Ribs · 5th Barbecue Bulls Championship Salzburg 2019

Consistency

±20.51

std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)

Strongest meat

Pork Ribs

avg 166.21 · weakest Brisket (160.03)

Road miles

1,270

mi across 9 mapped stops

Schedule strength

31%

of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1541)

Master avg

654.38 / 720

9 Master contests · 0 GCs

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Storylines (6 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.

On the rise

+37 rating points in a year

Their power rating has climbed 37 points across 7 contests since 2018-07-21 — from 1496 up to 1532.

7 contests since 2018-07-21
now 1532

They almost always walk

78% of contests with a top-10 call

A call in 7 of 9 contests

A top-10 category call in 78% of their 9 contests — they get to the stage more often than not.

High-water mark

684.0000 career-best overall

95.0% of a perfect 720

Their best day on record: 684.0000 at 4th Meat Smoke and Beer BBQ Competition — 95.0% of a perfect 720.

Master
2019-04-06

A tough matchup

5–2 behind in the head-to-head

SCHLUCHTENGRILLER BBQ ahead in 71% of their meetings

SCHLUCHTENGRILLER BBQ has come out ahead in 5 of their 7 shared contests.

The weak link

−6.2 points behind their best meat

Brisket is where the weekend gets away from them — it averages 6.18 points below their pork ribs, and turns into a call 33% of the time against 67%.

Brisket avg 160.03
Pork Ribs avg 166.21
3 calls in 9 entries

A strong matchup

5–1 ahead in the head-to-head

Ahead in 83% of their meetings

They've finished ahead of BBQ4FUN in 5 of their 6 shared contests.

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.

87 rated teams sit within a point of this rating, so a place on this list means the numbers match — no more than that.

Gryphon Smokehouse

#2157 of the rated field

1532 ▼ 0 power rating

Contests: 9
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 89%
Peak: 1541

No shared contest yet.

Careers of much the same size, 9 contests to 9, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.

rated over 9 contests
last seen 2022-08-06
on a 4-contest top-10 run

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SCRAMBLIN EGGS BBQ

#2144 of the rated field

1532 ▲ 0 power rating

Contests: 9
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 33%
Peak: 1543

No shared contest yet.

Their last contest in the data was back in 2015, 4 years before BBQ BROS Competition Team's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.

rated over 9 contests

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Big Daddy Dave's BBQ

#2154 of the rated field

1532 ▼ 0 power rating

Contests: 10
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 30%
Peak: 1532

No shared contest yet.

This is the highest they've ever been rated, 10 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.

rated over 10 contests
last seen 2023-09-08

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Team Smoke Showin'

#2158 of the rated field

1532 ▼ 0 power rating

Contests: 11
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 18%
Peak: 1539

No shared contest yet.

Level with BBQ BROS Competition Team on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.

rated over 11 contests
last seen 2026-04-25

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BLUE COLLAR SMOKERS OF KCMO

#2140 of the rated field

1533 ▲ 0 power rating

Contests: 7
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 14%
Peak: 1533

No shared contest yet.

Their last contest in the data was back in 2016, 3 years before BBQ BROS Competition Team's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.

rated over 7 contests

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Ishy Links BBQ

#2138 of the rated field

1533 ▲ 0 power rating

Contests: 14
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 36%
Peak: 1541

No shared contest yet.

14 contests and no Grand Championship yet — a rating made of 36% top-10 finishes rather than wins.

rated over 13 contests
last seen 2026-08-22

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Familiar foes (most-met opponents in overall standings — one meeting per contest)

Opponent	Meetings	Ahead	Behind	Win rate
EGGHEAD-BARBECUE	7	4	3	57%	⚔ compare
Westside BBQ	7	3	4	43%	⚔ compare
OMERTA BBQ	7	3	4	43%	⚔ compare
SCHLUCHTENGRILLER BBQ	7	2	5	29%	⚔ compare
White Squirrel BBQ	7	2	5	29%	⚔ compare
Knockstone BBQ Team Austria	7	2	5	29%	⚔ compare
BBQ4FUN	6	5	1	83%	⚔ compare
COOKLOUNGE BBQ	6	3	3	50%	⚔ compare
GRILLSPITZ BBQ HUNTERS	6	3	3	50%	⚔ compare
BALDICUE	5	2	3	40%	⚔ compare

By meat

Category	Entries	Calls	Wins	Podiums	Best	Worst	Average	Avg finish
Chicken	9	5	1	2	174.2856	153.1084	165.89	top 46%
Pork Ribs	9	6	1	3	177.7144	156.5488	166.21	top 36%
Pork	9	3	0	0	169.7028	148.5028	162.25	top 55%
Brisket	9	3	0	0	169.7028	137.6688	160.03	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	Avg finish
Small (<20 teams)	2	top 38%
Medium (20–39)	4	top 37%
Large (40+)	3	top 62%

The story so far (14 numbers that describe this team)

On the trail 1.8 yrs 2017-09-22 → 2019-07-20

Busiest season 2019 5 contests

Contests a season 3 across 3 seasons in the data

Contests visited 9 0 of them cooked more than once

Most-entered meat Chicken 9 entries · 1 win · 5 calls

Strongest meat Pork Ribs averages 166.21 · weakest Brisket (160.03)

Walk rate 78% a top-10 call in 7 of 9 contests

Overall top-10 rate 44% 4 of 9 contests

Best top-10 run 3 straight contests

Master average 654.38 out of 720 · 9 contests · 0 GCs

Opponents faced 148 140–138 across every shared overall standing

Road miles 1,270 9 mapped stops

Schedule strength 1541 average field rating faced — tougher than 31% of rated contests

Power rating 1532 peak 1534 · #2147 of 6,413 rated

Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)

2017
Sep 22 First tracked contest 4th Ruhrpott BBQ 2017
2018
Apr 14 First call Wild King BBQ Competition
Oct 20 First overall top-10 SMOKE IN SCHLIEREN
Oct 20 First overall podium SMOKE IN SCHLIEREN
Oct 20 First overall past 90% of a perfect score678.7656 SMOKE IN SCHLIEREN
2019
Apr 5 First category win (Chicken) 3rd Meat Smoke and Beer BBQ Competition
Apr 6 Career-best overall score684.0000 4th Meat Smoke and Beer BBQ Competition
Apr 27 Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)177.7144 5th Barbecue Bulls Championship Salzburg 2019
Apr 27 Peak power rating (1534) 5th Barbecue Bulls Championship Salzburg 2019
Jul 20 Most recent contest 4th Black Forest Smoke & Wine Festival

Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)

📈 Biggest rating jumps

Swing	Contest	Date
+14.7	SMOKE IN SCHLIEREN	2018-10-20
+13.8	4th Meat Smoke and Beer BBQ Competition	2019-04-06
+10.1	5th Barbecue Bulls Championship Salzburg 2019	2019-04-27
+1	3rd Meat Smoke and Beer BBQ Competition	2019-04-05
+0.8	Wild King BBQ Competition	2018-04-14

📉 Toughest weekends

Swing	Contest	Date
-2.8	4th Ruhrpott BBQ 2017	2017-09-22
-2.5	3rd Black Forest Smoke & Wine Festival	2018-07-21
-1.6	2nd Wild King BBQ Competition	2019-04-13
-1.3	4th Black Forest Smoke & Wine Festival	2019-07-20

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	Top-10s	Category wins	Walk rate	Avg finish	Best overall (% of perfect)	Avg overall (% of perfect)
2019	5	3	2	80%	top 42%	95%	92%
2018	3	1	0	100%	top 44%	94.3%	90.1%
2017	1	0	0	0%	top 64%	87.8%	87.8%

Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)

Date	Event	Overall	Chicken	Ribs	Pork	Brisket
2019-07-20	4th Black Forest Smoke & Wine Festival Bad Bellingen, 79415	25 / 44 (642.2288)	40 (154.2628)	22 (162.8460)	15 (165.1428)	21 (159.9772)
2019-04-27	5th Barbecue Bulls Championship Salzburg 2019 Salzburg, 5020	6 / 26 (682.1940)	12 (167.3712)	2 (177.7144)	14 (167.4056)	4 (169.7028)
2019-04-13	2nd Wild King BBQ Competition Tirol, A-6380	16 / 28 (652.9940)	5 (172.5484)	9 (169.1200)	24 (148.5028)	16 (162.8228)
2019-04-06	4th Meat Smoke and Beer BBQ Competition Wels, 4600	3 / 16 (684.0000)	6 (172.5944)	1 (175.4400)	9 (168.5600)	9 (167.4056)
2019-04-05	3rd Meat Smoke and Beer BBQ Competition Wels, 4600	9 / 16 (650.2056)	1 (174.2856)	9 (160.5944)	15 (158.7884)	14 (156.5372)
2018-10-20	SMOKE IN SCHLIEREN Goldschlagiplatz, 5735	3 / 20 (678.7656)	3 (173.1428)	5 (167.3944)	6 (168.5256)	5 (169.7028)
2018-07-21	3rd Black Forest Smoke & Wine Festival Bad Bellingen, 79415	31 / 48 (633.5768)	43 (153.1084)	30 (157.1088)	7 (169.7028)	35 (153.6568)
2018-04-14	Wild King BBQ Competition Tirol, A-6380	12 / 23 (633.5776)	9 (165.6916)	2 (169.1316)	11 (161.0856)	21 (137.6688)
2017-09-22	4th Ruhrpott BBQ 2017 Waltrop NRW, Germany,	42 / 66 (631.8860)	45 (159.9656)	47 (156.5488)	50 (152.5488)	20 (162.8228)

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	#493 (666 pts)	#434 (776 pts)	#386 (856 pts)	#683 (491 pts)	#558 (601 pts)
2018 ↗	Master	#825 (393 pts)	#822 (413 pts)	#752 (478 pts)	#785 (443 pts)	#1008 (298 pts)
2017 ↗	Master	#2212 (60 pts)	#2286 (60 pts)	#2304 (60 pts)	#2260 (60 pts)	#2109 (85 pts)