Perfect scores on the board
1
perfect 180
1 perfect 180 in the data — every judge at the table handing back a nine, all in brisket.
- Brisket ×1
Tremens BBQ team
Tremens BBQ team is a competition barbecue team with 5 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2019 and 2026. Their best overall finish is 4th of 7 at the Country Road & BBQ Contest (2023). They finished #764 in the 2023 Master Series Team of the Year standings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1483
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 4
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
Mar 23, 2019
latest Jun 20, 2026 · 7.2 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
1
1 podium
Overall top-10s
2
40% of 5 contests
Best top-10 run
2
straight overall top-10s
Avg finish
top 73%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
1 🔥
Walk rate
80%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±15.70
spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 166.97 · weakest Brisket (161.85)
Road miles
195
across 5 mapped stops
Schedule strength
35%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1547)
Master avg
661.77 / 720
4 Master contests · 0 GCs
Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 ↗ | Master | #1020 (60 pts) | #1093 (60 pts) | #757 (200 pts) | #1067 (60 pts) | #1319 (50 pts) |
| 2023 ↗ | Master | #764 (182 pts) | #903 (157 pts) | #820 (225 pts) | #928 (137 pts) | #671 (257 pts) |
| 2021 ↗ | Master | #896 (126 pts) | #1104 (106 pts) | #1194 (91 pts) | #848 (156 pts) | #764 (191 pts) |
| 2019 ↗ | Master | #1920 (65 pts) | #1856 (90 pts) | #1740 (110 pts) | #1550 (125 pts) | #2585 (50 pts) |
Overall rank by season
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to Tremens BBQ team, each with one reason worth a look.
Tremens BBQ team has 4 rated contests, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 143 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#4,003 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1483
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#4,005 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
Level with Tremens BBQ team on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#3,984 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1484
Their last contest in the data was back in 2022, 4 years before Tremens BBQ team's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#4,018 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1503
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 7 years before Tremens BBQ team's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#3,996 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1483
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 7 years before Tremens BBQ team's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#3,990 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1483
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 7 years before Tremens BBQ team's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careersBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 169.1084 | 161.1428 | 165.13 | top 77% |
| Pork Ribs | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 174.2744 | 154.8116 | 165.23 | top 69% |
| Pork | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 169.7028 | 162.8000 | 166.97 | top 67% |
| Brisket | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 180 🔥 | 147.4172 | 161.85 | top 60% |
“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 field size and state
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 2 | 0 | top 57% |
| Medium (20–39) | 2 | 0 | top 90% |
More numbers
Busiest season
2023
2 contests
Contests a season
1.3
across 4 seasons in the data
Contests visited
4
a different one every time
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
5 entries · 0 wins · 2 calls
Opponents faced
57
finished ahead 15 times, behind 54
Longest layoff
2.7 yrs
Oct 7, 2023 → Jun 20, 2026
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20261 milestone
- Most recent contest The War of Barbeque
20234 milestones
- First category win (Brisket) Country Road & BBQ Contest
- First perfect 180 (Brisket) Country Road & BBQ Contest
- Career-best overall score686.7540 Country Road & BBQ Contest
- Peak power rating (1494) Country Road & BBQ Contest
20212 milestones
- First overall top-10 FO.G & SMOKE
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score663.3940 FO.G & SMOKE
20192 milestones
- First tracked contest Country Road & BBQ Contest -Day2
- First call Country Road & BBQ Contest -Day2
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +2.6 | Country Road & BBQ Contest | Oct 7, 2023 |
| +1.5 | FO.G & SMOKE | Sep 25, 2021 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -11.3 | The War of Barbeque | Jun 20, 2026 |
| -9.7 | Country Road & BBQ Contest -Day2 | Mar 23, 2019 |
Scores over time (% of a perfect score — tap a meat to add it)
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 92% | 90.3% | 90.3% |
| 2023 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 50% | top 57% | 95.4% | 95.4% |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 56% | 92.1% | 92.1% |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 88% | 89.8% | 89.8% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 2026 | The War of Barbeque Peschiera del Garda | 23 / 25 (650.1716) | 23 (163.4172) | 4 (174.2744) | 23 (162.8000) | 25 (149.6800) |
| Oct 7, 2023 | Country Road & BBQ Contest Cartigliano | 4 / 7 (686.7540) | 5 (169.1084) | 6 (170.8228) | 7 (166.8228) | 1 (180) |
| Oct 7, 2023 | Country Road & BBQ Contest (ONE MEAT RIBS) Cartigliano | — | — | 18 (154.8116) | — | — |
| Sep 25, 2021 | FO.G & SMOKE Modena | 9 / 16 (663.3940) | 12 (161.1428) | 15 (162.2628) | 6 (169.7028) | 4 (170.2856) |
| Mar 23, 2019 | Country Road & BBQ Contest -Day2 Torreglia | 22 / 25 (646.7660) | 17 (166.8572) | 13 (163.9544) | 10 (168.5372) | 25 (147.4172) |