High-water mark
680.5604
career-best overall
94.5% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 680.5604 at Holmes Drywall Supply BBQ Cook-off (INVITATIONAL ONLY GRILLING SERIES) — 94.5% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- Oct 2, 2018
RUBBIN BUTTS BBQ
RUBBIN BUTTS BBQ is a competition barbecue team with 5 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2018 and 2022. Their best overall finish is 2nd of 8 at the Holmes Drywall Supply BBQ Cook-off (INVITATIONAL ONLY GRILLING SERIES) (2018), and they have finished Reserve Grand Champion once. They finished #1673 in the 2022 Master Series Team of the Year standings. Also listed in KCBS results as “RUBBIN' BUTTS BBQ”.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1470
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 31 invitational or side-series contest not counted
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
Apr 21, 2018
latest Jul 7, 2022 · 4.2 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
1 reserve
Category wins
1
3 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
20% of 5 contests
Avg finish
top 74%
overall standings
Best overall
680.5604 / 720
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
20%
contests with a top-10 call
Best single call
170.8916
Consistency
±37.09
spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 163.13 · weakest Brisket (144.81)
Road miles
1,734
across 5 mapped stops · furthest 853 mi
Schedule strength
43%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1556)
Purse competed for
$30K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
620.33 / 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 RUBBIN BUTTS BBQ, each with one reason worth a look.
RUBBIN BUTTS BBQ has 3 rated contests, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 146 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#4,641 of the rated field
- Contests
- 19
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 11%
- Peak
- 1534
0–1 in 1 shared contest (0% to RUBBIN BUTTS BBQ)
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team RUBBIN BUTTS BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head#4,662 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1470
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#4,647 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1501
They've been 1501 at their best, 31 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Compare careers#4,644 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1470
Level with RUBBIN BUTTS BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#4,645 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1470
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#4,634 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1470
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 3 years before RUBBIN BUTTS BBQ'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 | 1 | 170.8916 | 143.3828 | 155.12 | top 75% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 170.2744 | 144 | 157.26 | top 67% |
| Pork | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 169.1428 | 150.2628 | 163.13 | top 62% |
| Brisket | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 170.8344 | 117.6344 | 144.81 | top 73% |
“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) | 1 | 0 | top 25% |
| Medium (20–39) | 2 | 0 | top 90% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 89% |
More numbers
Busiest season
2022
2 contests
Contests a season
1.7
across 3 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
SC
2 of 5 contests · 4 states in all
Contests visited
4
a different one every time
Opponents faced
134
finished ahead 21 times, behind 125
Longest layoff
3.7 yrs
Oct 2, 2018 → Jun 24, 2022
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20221 milestone
- Most recent contest South Carolina Festival of Discovery
20189 milestones
- Peak power rating (1489) Fire N Up in the Flint Hills
- First call Holmes Drywall Supply BBQ Cook-off (INVITATIONAL ONLY GRILLING SERIES)
- First category win (Brisket) Holmes Drywall Supply BBQ Cook-off (INVITATIONAL ONLY GRILLING SERIES)
- First overall top-10 Holmes Drywall Supply BBQ Cook-off (INVITATIONAL ONLY GRILLING SERIES)
- First overall podium Holmes Drywall Supply BBQ Cook-off (INVITATIONAL ONLY GRILLING SERIES)
- First Reserve Championship Holmes Drywall Supply BBQ Cook-off (INVITATIONAL ONLY GRILLING SERIES)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score680.5604 Holmes Drywall Supply BBQ Cook-off (INVITATIONAL ONLY GRILLING SERIES)
- Career-best overall score680.5604 Holmes Drywall Supply BBQ Cook-off (INVITATIONAL ONLY GRILLING SERIES)
- Career-best single call (Chicken)170.8916 Holmes Drywall Supply BBQ Cook-off (INVITATIONAL ONLY GRILLING SERIES)
20151 milestone
- First tracked contest SC Festival of Discovery (TEAMS AND JUDGES FULL)
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -10.9 | Fire N Up in the Flint Hills | Apr 21, 2018 |
| -9.9 | Big BBQ Bash | Jun 24, 2022 |
| -9.2 | South Carolina Festival of Discovery | Jul 7, 2022 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 89% | 85.1% | 82.8% |
| 2018 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 50% | top 58% | 94.5% | 89.5% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 2022 | South Carolina Festival of Discovery 🏅 Greenwood, SC | 82 / 92 (579.3028) | 84 (148.5256) | 79 (144) | 36 (169.1428) | 88 (117.6344) |
| Jun 24, 2022 | Big BBQ Bash 🏅 Maryville, TN | 26 / 29 (612.4912) | 28 (143.3828) | 22 (159.4056) | 29 (150.2628) | 24 (159.4400) |
| Oct 2, 2018 | Holmes Drywall Supply BBQ Cook-off (INVITATIONAL ONLY GRILLING SERIES) unrated Kansas City, MO | 2 / 8 (680.5604) | 2 (170.8916) | 2 (170.2744) | 4 (168.5600) | 1 (170.8344) |
| Apr 21, 2018 | Fire N Up in the Flint Hills Council Grove, KS | 19 / 21 (608.9488) | 18 (157.6800) | 17 (155.3716) | 12 (164.5484) | 21 (131.3488) |
| Jul 9, 2015 | SC Festival of Discovery (TEAMS AND JUDGES FULL) Greenwood, SC | — | — | — | — | — |
An unrated contest — an invitational, or a Competitor or Kosher Series board — is in the record but doesn’t move the power rating.