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
- Sep 13, 2019
Ball-n-Chain BBQ
Ball-n-Chain BBQ is a competition barbecue team with 3 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record in 2019. Their best overall finish is 6th of 25 at the Bands brews & BBQ (2019). They finished #934 in the 2019 Master Series Team of the Year standings. Also listed in KCBS results as “Ball n chain bbq”.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1516
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 2
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
Aug 23, 2019
latest Sep 13, 2019
Category wins
0
1 podium
Overall top-10s
2
of 3 contests
Best top-10 run
2
straight overall top-10s
Avg finish
top 46%
overall standings
Walk rate
67%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 166.30 · weakest Brisket (161.72)
Road miles
309
across 2 mapped stops · furthest 309 mi
Purse competed for
$23K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
Master avg
669.39 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
302.86 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 0 GCs
These overall scores sit on different scales (Master 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.
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 | #934 (294 pts) | #804 (409 pts) | #1050 (269 pts) | #1174 (224 pts) | #1036 (274 pts) |
By 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.
More numbers
Busiest season
2019
2 contests
Contests a season
1.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
ID
1 of 3 contests · 2 states in all
Contests visited
3
a different one every time
Opponents faced
71
finished ahead 42 times, behind 29
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20196 milestones
- 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
—1 milestone
- First tracked contest Pit Boss Premium Charcoal Barbecue (BACKYARD ONLY)
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 13, 2019 | Bands brews & BBQ 🏅 Boise, ID | 6 / 25 (692.5372) | 2 (179.4400) | 7 (173.7144) | 18 (166.8228) | 4 (172.5600) |
| Aug 23, 2019 | 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 | 16 / 20 (302.8568) | 14 (150.8684) | 13 (151.9884) | — | — |