SLOW RIDE BBQ

SLOW RIDE BBQ is a competition barbecue team with 4 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2018 and 2019. Their best overall finish is 11th of 33 at the Mazatzal Grill Masters-BBQ Competition & Testicle Festival (2019). They finished #856 in the 2020 Master Series Team of the Year standings.

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At a glance (the record in numbers)

Rating

1504

Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 4

Contests

in the data

First seen

Dec 28, 2018

latest Dec 27, 2019 · 1 year on the trail

Best ToY finish

#856

Master 2020 · every season

Grand champs

0 reserve

Category wins

1 podium

Overall top-10s

0% of 4 contests

Avg finish

top 62%

overall standings

Best overall

672.5028 / 720

Master · Mazatzal Grill Masters-BBQ Competition & Testicle Festival

Perfect 180s

Walk rate

75%

contests with a top-10 call

Best single call

178.2972

Chicken · Arizona National BBQ Stampede

Consistency

±15.03

spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)

Strongest meat

Chicken

avg 169.83 · weakest Pork (160.54)

Road miles

273

across 4 mapped stops · furthest 83 mi

Schedule strength

83%

of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1611)

Purse competed for

$37K

listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings

State championships

0 🏅

won from 3 state-championship entries

Master avg

656.05 / 720

4 Master contests · 0 GCs

Storylines (4 found in their record)

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

High-water mark

672.5028 career-best overall

93.4% of a perfect 720

Their best day on record: 672.5028 at Mazatzal Grill Masters-BBQ Competition & Testicle Festival — 93.4% of a perfect 720.

Master
Sep 27, 2019

A tough matchup

4–0 behind in the head-to-head

Bad Boyz BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings

Bad Boyz BBQ has come out ahead in 4 of their 4 shared contests.

A strong matchup

4–0 ahead in the head-to-head

Ahead in 100% of their meetings

They've finished ahead of BUTTHEAD BBQ in 4 of their 4 shared contests.

They cook the hard rooms

1611 average field rating faced

A tougher draw than 83% of rated fields

The fields they enter average a 1611 power rating — a tougher draw than 83% of every rated contest in the data.

4 rated 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
2020 ↗	Master	#856 (60 pts)	#851 (80 pts)	#644 (145 pts)	#899 (60 pts)	#773 (105 pts)
2019 ↗	Master	#1035 (248 pts)	#755 (438 pts)	#1314 (178 pts)	#1049 (263 pts)	#953 (308 pts)

Overall rank by season

By meat

Category	Entries	Calls	Podiums	Best	Worst	Average	Avg finish
Chicken	4	1	1	178.2972	165.0856	169.83	top 41%
Pork Ribs	4	1	0	171.9772	156.5716	162.99	top 62%
Pork	3	1	0	173.1428	152.5600	160.54	top 70%
Brisket	4	1	0	172.5484	146.7772	162.97	top 51%

“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)	1	0	top 33%
Large (40+)	3	0	top 72%

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

Contest	Visits	Best	GCs	Avg finish	Last visit
Arizona National BBQ Stampede	2	25	0	top 71%	Dec 27, 2019

More numbers

Busiest season 2019 3 contests

Contests a season 2 across 2 seasons in the data

Most contests held in AZ 4 of 4 contests

Contests visited 3 1 of them more than once

Opponents faced 94 finished ahead 60 times, behind 105

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

20194 milestones

Sep 27 First overall past 90% of a perfect score672.5028 Mazatzal Grill Masters-BBQ Competition & Testicle Festival
Sep 27 Career-best overall score672.5028 Mazatzal Grill Masters-BBQ Competition & Testicle Festival
Dec 27 Peak power rating (1504) Arizona National BBQ Stampede
Dec 27 Most recent contest Arizona National BBQ Stampede

20183 milestones

Dec 28 First tracked contest Arizona National BBQ Stampede
Dec 28 First call Arizona National BBQ Stampede
Dec 28 Career-best single call (Chicken)178.2972 Arizona National BBQ Stampede

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

📈 Biggest rating jumps

Swing	Contest	Date
+10.2	Mazatzal Grill Masters-BBQ Competition & Testicle Festival	Sep 27, 2019
+2.7	Arizona National BBQ Stampede	Dec 27, 2019

📉 Toughest weekends

Swing	Contest	Date
-5.9	Arizona National BBQ Stampede	Dec 28, 2018
-3.4	7th Annual Show Low BBQ Throw down	May 3, 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	3	0	0	0	67%	top 54%	93.4%	91.6%
2018	1	0	0	0	100%	top 85%	89.6%	89.6%

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

Date	Event	Overall	Chicken	Ribs	Pork	Brisket
Dec 27, 2019	Arizona National BBQ Stampede 🏅 Phoenix, AZ	25 / 44 (669.1088)	21 (168.5484)	9 (171.9772)	—	16 (169.1660)
Sep 27, 2019	Mazatzal Grill Masters-BBQ Competition & Testicle Festival 🏅 Payson, AZ	11 / 33 (672.5028)	13 (167.3944)	25 (159.4172)	9 (173.1428)	6 (172.5484)
May 3, 2019	7th Annual Show Low BBQ Throw down 🏅 Show Low, AZ	33 / 45 (637.6116)	33 (165.0856)	37 (156.5716)	43 (152.5600)	22 (163.3944)
Dec 28, 2018	Arizona National BBQ Stampede Phoenix, AZ	40 / 47 (644.9828)	2 (178.2972)	32 (164)	41 (155.9084)	47 (146.7772)