High-water mark
673.5888
career-best overall
93.6% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 673.5888 at BBQ'Loo & Blues Too! — 93.6% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- Jul 19, 2019
Burnt End Barbecue Company
Burnt End Barbecue Company is a competition barbecue team with 5 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2018 and 2020. Their best overall finish is 12th of 33 at the BBQ'Loo & Blues Too! (2019). They finished #936 in the 2019 Master Series Team of the Year standings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1527
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 41 invitational or side-series contest not counted
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
Sep 28, 2018
latest Apr 6, 2020 · 1.5 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
1
1 podium
Overall top-10s
0
0% of 5 contests
Avg finish
top 50%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
60%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±7.70
spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 169.71 · weakest Pork Ribs (158.10)
Road miles
810
across 5 mapped stops · furthest 317 mi
Schedule strength
80%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1603)
Purse competed for
$33K
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 3 state-championship entries
Master avg
662.04 / 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)
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to Burnt End Barbecue Company, each with one reason worth a look.
Burnt End Barbecue Company 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 71 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#2,315 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 29%
- Peak
- 1529
Careers of much the same size, 7 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
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- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1533
Their rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 5 contests, alongside a 60% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Compare careers#2,297 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1527
They turned up 5 years after Burnt End Barbecue Company did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Compare careers#2,308 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1536
Level with Burnt End Barbecue Company on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#2,309 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1527
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#2,317 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1526
Their last contest in the data was back in 2016, 4 years before Burnt End Barbecue Company'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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 173.7144 | 163.3944 | 169.71 | top 28% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.7032 | 153.0744 | 158.10 | top 65% |
| Pork | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 173.1428 | 159.3600 | 166.83 | top 43% |
| Brisket | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 176.5600 | 158.2400 | 167.40 | top 36% |
“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) | 3 | 0 | top 39% |
| Large (40+) | 2 | 0 | top 67% |
More numbers
Busiest season
2019
3 contests
Contests a season
1.7
across 3 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
IA
3 of 5 contests · 3 states in all
Contests visited
5
a different one every time
Opponents faced
215
finished ahead 104 times, behind 150
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20201 milestone
- Most recent contest Socially Distanced Smoking - Brisket presented by The BBQ League
20193 milestones
- Career-best overall score673.5888 BBQ'Loo & Blues Too!
- Career-best single call (Brisket)176.5600 BBQ'Loo & Blues Too!
- Peak power rating (1527) 16th Annual UP IN SMOKE BBQ Bash
20184 milestones
- First tracked contest Up in Smoke BBQ Bash
- First call Up in Smoke BBQ Bash
- First category win (Pork) Up in Smoke BBQ Bash
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score652.4688 Up in Smoke BBQ Bash
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +8 | BBQ'Loo & Blues Too! | Jul 19, 2019 |
| +6.9 | Up in Smoke BBQ Bash | Sep 28, 2018 |
| +6.5 | 16th Annual UP IN SMOKE BBQ Bash | Aug 9, 2019 |
| +5 | Heritage Days BBQ Showdown Day 1 | Jun 21, 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 83% | 86.4% | 86.4% |
| 2019 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 67% | top 42% | 93.6% | 92.4% |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 100% | top 41% | 90.6% | 90.6% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 2020 | Socially Distanced Smoking - Brisket presented by The BBQ League unrated washington, MO | 91 / 109 (155.4400) | — | — | — | — |
| Aug 9, 2019 | 16th Annual UP IN SMOKE BBQ Bash 🏅 Mason City, IA | 15 / 38 (663.3028) | 4 (173.7144) | 34 (155.9428) | 24 (163.9656) | 9 (169.6800) |
| Jul 19, 2019 | BBQ'Loo & Blues Too! 🏅 Waterloo, IA | 12 / 33 (673.5888) | 12 (173.1200) | 28 (153.0744) | 8 (170.8344) | 4 (176.5600) |
| Jun 21, 2019 | Heritage Days BBQ Showdown Day 1 🏅 Belvidere, IL | 25 / 50 (658.7892) | 18 (168.5944) | 17 (165.7032) | 40 (159.3600) | 24 (165.1316) |
| Sep 28, 2018 | Up in Smoke BBQ Bash Mason City, IA | 12 / 29 (652.4688) | 8 (163.3944) | 15 (157.6916) | 1 (173.1428) | 18 (158.2400) |
An unrated contest — an invitational, or a Competitor or Kosher Series board — is in the record but doesn’t move the power rating.