High-water mark
692.5372
career-best overall
96.2% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 692.5372 at Bands brews & BBQ — 96.2% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2019-09-13
Ball-n-Chain BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1516
peak 1516 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2019-08-23
latest 2019-09-13
Best ToY finish
#934
Master 2019
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 46%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
67%
contests with a top-10 call
Top-10 streak
2
best run (overall)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 166.30 · weakest Brisket (161.72)
Road miles
309
mi across 2 mapped stops · furthest 309 mi
Purse competed for
$23K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
669.39 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
302.86 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 0 GCs
Master and Backyard overall scores sit on different scales (Master is out of 720, Backyard out of 360), so they're kept separate — averaging them together would be misleading.
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Storylines (1 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.
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.
Ball-n-Chain BBQ has 2 rated contests — short of the five it takes to earn a power ranking — so this rating has barely moved off the 1500 every team starts on and 85 rated teams sit within a point of it. Read the list as the nearest company at a number nobody here has moved far from, not as a verdict on who this team belongs with.
#2617 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#2620 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1526
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2013, 6 years before Ball-n-Chain BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#2616 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
Level with Ball-n-Chain BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2608 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1523
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2015, 4 years before Ball-n-Chain BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2621 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 100%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
6 straight overall top-10s says this rating is a moving target.
⚔ Head-to-head#2627 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1519
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 6 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 179.4400 | 150.8684 | 166.30 | top 34% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 173.7144 | 151.9884 | 162.64 | top 46% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 166.8228 | 164.5372 | 165.68 | top 52% |
| Brisket | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 172.5600 | 150.8800 | 161.72 | top 44% |
“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.
The story so far (17 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0.1 yrs
2019-08-23 → 2019-09-13
Busiest season
2019
2 contests
Contests a season
1.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
ID
1 of 3 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
3
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
3 entries · 0 wins · 2 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 166.30 · weakest Brisket (161.72)
Walk rate
67%
a top-10 call in 2 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
67%
2 of 3 contests
Best top-10 run
2
straight contests
Master average
669.39
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Backyard average
302.86
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
71
42–29 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
309
2 mapped stops · furthest 309 mi
Purse competed for
$23,000
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Power rating
1516
peak 1516 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- First tracked contest Pit Boss Premium Charcoal Barbecue (BACKYARD ONLY)
- 2019
- First call Montana Pitmaster Classic
- First overall top-10 Montana Pitmaster Classic
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score692.5372 Bands brews & BBQ
- Career-best overall score692.5372 Bands brews & BBQ
- Career-best single call (Chicken)179.4400 Bands brews & BBQ
- Most recent contest Bands brews & BBQ
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)
Season by season
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 80% | 84.1% | 84.1% |
| 2019 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 100% | top 29% | 96.2% | 93% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-09-13 | Bands brews & BBQ 🏅 Boise, ID | 6 / 25 (692.5372) | 2 (179.4400) | 7 (173.7144) | 18 (166.8228) | 4 (172.5600) |
| 2019-08-23 | Montana Pitmaster Classic 🏅 Bozeman, MT | 10 / 29 (646.2400) | 7 (168.5944) | 13 (162.2284) | 9 (164.5372) | 21 (150.8800) |
| Pit Boss Premium Charcoal Barbecue (BACKYARD ONLY) Perth Western, 6056 | 16 / 20 (302.8568) | 14 (150.8684) | 13 (151.9884) | — | — |
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 | #934 (294 pts) | #804 (409 pts) | #1050 (269 pts) | #1174 (224 pts) | #1036 (274 pts) |