THE DUTCHEF

THE DUTCHEF is a competition barbecue team with 12 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2018 and 2019. Their best overall finish is 10th of 22 at the KCBS International BBQ Contest Vuur en Vlees (2018). They are ranked #2205 of 6,477 teams in the KCBS power rankings.

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At a glance (the record in numbers)

Power ranking

#2,205

of 6,477 rated · rankings

Rating

1531

peak 1542 · rated over 11 contests1 invitational or side-series contest not counted

Contests

in the data

First seen

Jun 23, 2018

latest Sep 7, 2019 · 1.2 years on the trail

Best ToY finish

#626

Master 2018 · every season

Grand champs

0 reserve

Category wins

3 podiums

Overall top-10s

8% of 12 contests

Avg finish

top 48%

overall standings

Best overall

655.4284 / 720

Master · Tony Stone BBQ Competition

Perfect 180s

Current form

639.85 ▼

last 5 Master vs avg 646.91 (-7.06)

Walk rate

75%

contests with a top-10 call

Best single call

176.6172

Pork · Farm Meat De Vaartse Hoeve BBQ Contest

Consistency

±9.15

spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)

Strongest meat

Pork

avg 164.15 · weakest Pork Ribs (157.89)

Road miles

2,719

across 12 mapped stops

Schedule strength

31%

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

Master avg

646.91 / 720

12 Master contests · 0 GCs

Storylines (8 found in their record)

Each card leads with the number behind the story, straight from their results.

They almost always walk

75% of contests with a top-10 call

A call in 9 of 12 contests

A top-10 category call in 75% of their 12 contests — they get to the stage more often than not.

The one to beat

2× one call ahead of them

DUTCH BROS. SMOKERS has finished one call ahead of THE DUTCHEF 2 times — their closest competition in the data.

Their season

2018 their best year

2018 was the year it came together: 5 contests, 0 Grand Championships and 2 category wins, at an average finish in the top 38%.

5 contests
1 overall top-10
2 category wins
average top 38%

A tough matchup

11–0 behind in the head-to-head

IQ - NETHERLANDS ahead in 100% of their meetings

IQ - NETHERLANDS has come out ahead in 11 of their 11 shared contests.

The weak link

−6.3 points behind their best meat

Pork Ribs is where the weekend gets away from them — it averages 6.26 points below their pork, and turns into a call 17% of the time against 25%.

Pork Ribs avg 157.89
Pork avg 164.15
2 calls in 12 entries

A strong matchup

6–1 ahead in the head-to-head

Ahead in 86% of their meetings

They've finished ahead of RIVERLAND SMOKERS in 6 of their 7 shared contests.

Pork nemesis

9 of 11 shared pork entries lost

IQ - NETHERLANDS ahead 82% of the time

Even in their strongest meat, IQ - NETHERLANDS has out-cooked them in 9 of 11 shared pork entries.

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The metronome

±1.27% swing around their own average

Their overall lands within ±1.27% of a perfect score of their own average — whatever the field, you know roughly what they'll turn in.

averages 89.8% of a perfect score
12 contests

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
2019 ↗	Master	#971 (274 pts)	#1015 (274 pts)	#966 (304 pts)	#1097 (244 pts)	#943 (314 pts)
2018 ↗	Master	#626 (542 pts)	#784 (437 pts)	#685 (527 pts)	#542 (687 pts)	#536 (687 pts)

Overall rank by season

Teams like this (closest power rating)

The teams rated closest to THE DUTCHEF, each with one reason worth a look.

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

MOODSWING BBQ

#2,215 of the rated field

1530 power rating

Contests: 11
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 27%
Peak: 1531

This is the highest they've ever been rated, 11 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.

rated over 11 contests
last seen Apr 8, 2022

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Big Time BBQ Buddies

#2,201 of the rated field

1531 power rating

Contests: 12
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 25%
Peak: 1540

Careers of much the same size, 12 contests to 12, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.

rated over 12 contests
last seen May 13, 2022

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FIGHTING DELFUEGOS

#2,204 of the rated field

1531 power rating

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

They were already cooking in 2013, 5 years before THE DUTCHEF's first contest.

rated over 10 contests
last seen Jun 23, 2017

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TWO BUTTS AND A HAM

#2,212 of the rated field

1530 power rating

Contests: 15
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 13%
Peak: 1530

15 contests and no Grand Championship yet — a rating made of 13% top-10 finishes rather than wins.

rated over 13 contests
last seen Sep 12, 2019

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Full Boar BBQ KC

#2,202 of the rated field

1531 power rating

Contests: 9
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 11%
Peak: 1540

Level with THE DUTCHEF on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.

rated over 9 contests
last seen Jun 26, 2026

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MR. BIBS

#2,209 of the rated field

1531 power rating

Contests: 9
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 0%
Peak: 1531

This is the highest they've ever been rated, 9 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.

rated over 9 contests
last seen Sep 16, 2021

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

Opponent	Meetings	Ahead	Behind	Win rate
IQ - NETHERLANDS	11	0	11	0%	⚔ compare
BBQ+	10	1	9	10%	⚔ compare
SOUTHERN DUTCH BBQ	10	1	9	10%	⚔ compare
Backcorner BBQ	10	0	10	0%	⚔ compare
BUGHOUSE SMOKERS	9	0	9	0%	⚔ compare
PARKSTAD SMOKERS	9	0	9	0%	⚔ compare
MASTERS OF FIRE	8	5	3	63%	⚔ compare
Osdorp Grillers (NL)	8	3	5	38%	⚔ compare
DE VLIEGENDE HOLLANDER BBQ-TEAM	8	0	8	0%	⚔ compare
RIVERLAND SMOKERS	7	6	1	86%	⚔ compare
RFS Barbecue Team	7	4	3	57%	⚔ compare
UNCLE TONY'S COCKNEY Q	7	3	4	43%	⚔ compare
PUREBBQ	7	1	6	14%	⚔ compare
BBQ Team Laurentius	6	3	3	50%	⚔ compare
ROKENDE REGAHS	6	3	3	50%	⚔ compare

By meat

Category	Entries	Calls	Wins	Podiums	Best	Worst	Average	Avg finish
Chicken	12	2	0	1	169.7256	147.3944	162.02	top 56%
Pork Ribs	12	2	0	0	167.4400	146.7772	157.89	top 61%
Pork	12	3	1	1	176.6172	158.2972	164.15	top 46%
Brisket	12	4	1	1	174.8800	155.3944	162.84	top 41%

“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
Medium (20–39)	6	0	top 60%
Large (40+)	6	0	top 36%

Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)

Contest	Visits	Best	GCs	Avg finish	Last visit
Farm Meat De Vaartse Hoeve BBQ Contest	2	16	0	top 59%	Sep 7, 2019

More numbers

Busiest season 2019 7 contests

Contests a season 6 across 2 seasons in the data

Contests visited 11 1 of them more than once

Opponents faced 220 finished ahead 268 times, behind 207

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

20194 milestones

Jun 8 10th tracked contest Tony Stone BBQ Competition
Jun 8 Career-best overall score655.4284 Tony Stone BBQ Competition
Jul 6 Peak power rating (1542) BBQ an der Burg 2019
Sep 7 Most recent contest Farm Meat De Vaartse Hoeve BBQ Contest

20186 milestones

Jun 23 First tracked contest KCBS International BBQ Contest Vuur en Vlees
Jun 23 First call KCBS International BBQ Contest Vuur en Vlees
Jun 23 First overall top-10 KCBS International BBQ Contest Vuur en Vlees
Jun 23 First overall past 90% of a perfect score649.0976 KCBS International BBQ Contest Vuur en Vlees
Sep 8 First category win (Pork) Farm Meat De Vaartse Hoeve BBQ Contest
Sep 8 Career-best single call (Pork)176.6172 Farm Meat De Vaartse Hoeve BBQ Contest

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

📈 Biggest rating jumps

Swing	Contest	Date
+11.1	5th Ruhrpott BBQ 2018	Sep 22, 2018
+7.4	BBQ an der Burg 2019	Jul 6, 2019
+6	Spring Break BBQ Contest	Mar 30, 2019
+5.5	2nd International Suydersee BBQ Contest	Sep 1, 2018
+4.2	Farm Meat De Vaartse Hoeve BBQ Contest	Sep 8, 2018

📉 Toughest weekends

Swing	Contest	Date
-11.5	Farm Meat De Vaartse Hoeve BBQ Contest	Sep 7, 2019
-4.3	Brew N Q Open	May 25, 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)
2019	7	0	0	0	71%	top 56%	91%	89.3%
2018	5	0	1	2	80%	top 38%	90.8%	90.6%

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

Date	Event	Overall	Chicken	Ribs	Pork	Brisket
Sep 7, 2019	Farm Meat De Vaartse Hoeve BBQ Contest Dongen	30 / 38 (627.9660)	37 (147.3944)	38 (146.7772)	5 (172.6056)	17 (161.1888)
Jul 6, 2019	BBQ an der Burg 2019 Geestland	11 / 36 (642.8228)	2 (169.7256)	29 (153.1316)	19 (158.8572)	15 (161.1084)
Jun 8, 2019	Tony Stone BBQ Competition Hoofddorp	23 / 55 (655.4284)	18 (167.4628)	42 (154.2284)	32 (161.7600)	7 (171.9772)
May 25, 2019	Brew N Q Open Leicestershire	24 / 34 (645.1432)	22 (165.1084)	32 (151.4060)	27 (158.2972)	7 (170.3316)
May 24, 2019	Brew N Q Invitational unrated Leicestershire	23 / 26 (627.8968)	20 (157.6456)	26 (147.4056)	20 (161.1428)	13 (161.7028)
Apr 13, 2019	Meat the East Hengelo	18 / 41 (651.9312)	22 (165.6912)	17 (163.4172)	12 (167.4284)	31 (155.3944)
Mar 30, 2019	Spring Break BBQ Contest Lommel	14 / 40 (651.3948)	12 (167.4628)	9 (165.6916)	30 (159.4172)	19 (158.8232)
Oct 13, 2018	Tallya BBQ Festival Tallya	18 / 38 (651.9768)	18 (163.9656)	14 (165.2000)	17 (165.7256)	29 (157.0856)
Sep 22, 2018	5th Ruhrpott BBQ 2018 Waltrop	14 / 73 (653.7372)	38 (161.1428)	47 (154.2972)	22 (163.4172)	1 (174.8800)
Sep 8, 2018	Farm Meat De Vaartse Hoeve BBQ Contest Dongen	16 / 40 (653.6572)	36 (154.7656)	17 (162.2972)	1 (176.6172)	15 (159.9772)
Sep 1, 2018	2nd International Suydersee BBQ Contest Zeewolde Flevoland	16 / 44 (651.8740)	39 (158.2284)	13 (167.4400)	10 (166.2400)	17 (159.9656)
Jun 23, 2018	KCBS International BBQ Contest Vuur en Vlees Deurne	10 / 22 (649.0976)	6 (165.7028)	9 (163.4060)	16 (158.2972)	9 (161.6916)

An unrated contest — an invitational, or a Competitor or Kosher Series board — is in the record but doesn’t move the power rating.

THE DUTCHEF

At a glance (the record in numbers)

Power ranking

Rating

Contests

First seen

Best ToY finish

Grand champs

Category wins

Overall top-10s

Avg finish

Best overall

Perfect 180s

Current form

Walk rate

Best single call

Consistency

Strongest meat

Road miles

Schedule strength

Master avg

Storylines (8 found in their record)

They almost always walk

The one to beat

Their season

A tough matchup

The weak link

A strong matchup

Pork nemesis

The metronome

Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)

Overall rank by season

Teams like this (closest power rating)

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

By meat

By field size and state

By contest size

Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)

More numbers

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

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

📈 Biggest rating jumps

📉 Toughest weekends

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

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

Career map (orange GC · green top-10 · grey the rest — tap a pin)