SLOW RIDE BBQ

At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)

Rating

1504

peak 1504 · rated over 4 contests ⓘ

Contests

in the data

First seen

2018-12-28

latest 2019-12-27

Best ToY finish

#856

Master 2020

Grand champs

0 reserve

Category wins

1 podiums

Overall top-10s

of 4 contests

Avg finish

top 62%

overall standings

Best overall

672.5028 / 720

Master · Mazatzal Grill Masters-BBQ Competition & Testicle Festival

Perfect 180s

Current form

656.05

last 4 Master vs avg 656.05 (+0.00)

Walk rate

75%

contests with a top-10 call

Best single call

178.2972

Chicken · Arizona National BBQ Stampede

Consistency

±15.03

std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)

Strongest meat

Chicken

avg 169.83 · weakest Pork (160.26)

Road miles

273

mi across 4 mapped stops · furthest 83 mi

Schedule strength

83%

of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1610)

Purse competed for

$37K

listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings

State championships

0 🏅

GCs in 3 state-championship entries

Master avg

656.05 / 720

4 Master contests · 0 GCs

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Storylines (4 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.

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
2019-09-27

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

1610 average field rating faced

A tougher draw than 83% of rated fields

The fields they enter average a 1610 power rating — a tougher draw than 83% of every rated contest in the data.

4 rated contests

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.

SLOW RIDE BBQ has 4 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 111 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.

TWISTED PIG

#3071 of the rated field

1503 ▼ 0 power rating

Contests: 5
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 20%
Peak: 1521

No shared contest yet.

Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.

rated over 5 contests
last seen 2024-09-20

⚔ Head-to-head

Open Bar BQ

#3055 of the rated field

1504 ▲ 0 power rating

Contests: 5
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 20%
Peak: 1522

No shared contest yet.

They were already cooking in 2013, 5 years before SLOW RIDE BBQ's first contest.

rated over 5 contests
last seen 2018-07-14

⚔ Head-to-head

Smoke-N-Things

#3081 of the rated field

1503 ▼ 0 power rating

Contests: 5
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 0%
Peak: 1512

No shared contest yet.

Level with SLOW RIDE BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.

rated over 5 contests
last seen 2018-05-04

⚔ Head-to-head

#3064 of the rated field

1504 ▲ 0 power rating

Contests: 5
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 0%
Peak: 1505

No shared contest yet.

Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.

rated over 5 contests
last seen 2017-10-13

⚔ Head-to-head

PITS N' GRINS

#3083 of the rated field

1503 ▼ 0 power rating

Contests: 5
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 40%
Peak: 1507

No shared contest yet.

Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.

rated over 5 contests
last seen 2017-10-06

⚔ Head-to-head

SMOKIN ON THE ROOF

#3072 of the rated field

1503 ▼ 0 power rating

Contests: 5
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 20%
Peak: 1503

No shared contest yet.

Their last contest in the data was back in 2013, 6 years before SLOW RIDE BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.

rated over 5 contests

⚔ Head-to-head

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	4	1	0	173.1428	152.5600	160.26	top 76%
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 contest size

Field	Contests	GCs	Avg finish
Medium (20–39)	1	0	top 33%
Large (40+)	3	0	top 72%

Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)

Contest	Visits	Best	GCs	Avg finish	Last visit
Arizona National BBQ Stampede	2	25	0	top 71%	2019-12-27

The story so far (16 numbers that describe this team)

On the trail 1 yrs 2018-12-28 → 2019-12-27

Busiest season 2019 3 contests

Contests a season 2 across 2 seasons in the data

Cooks most in AZ 4 of 4 contests

Contests visited 3 1 of them cooked more than once

Most-entered meat Chicken 4 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls

Strongest meat Chicken averages 169.83 · weakest Pork (160.26)

Walk rate 75% a top-10 call in 3 of 4 contests

Overall top-10 rate 0% 0 of 4 contests

Master average 656.05 out of 720 · 4 contests · 0 GCs

Opponents faced 94 60–105 across every shared overall standing

Road miles 273 4 mapped stops · furthest 83 mi

Schedule strength 1610 average field rating faced — tougher than 83% of rated contests

Purse competed for $37,100 listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings

State championships 0 from 3 state-championship entries

Power rating 1504 peak 1504 · #null of 6,413 rated

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

2018
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
2019
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

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

📈 Biggest rating jumps

Swing	Contest	Date
+10.2	Mazatzal Grill Masters-BBQ Competition & Testicle Festival	2019-09-27
+2.7	Arizona National BBQ Stampede	2019-12-27

📉 Toughest weekends

Swing	Contest	Date
-5.9	Arizona National BBQ Stampede	2018-12-28
-3.4	7th Annual Show Low BBQ Throw down	2019-05-03

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)

Team of the Year rank by season

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
2019-12-27	Arizona National BBQ Stampede 🏅 Phoenix, AZ	25 / 44 (669.1088)	21 (168.5484)	9 (171.9772)	41 (159.4172)	16 (169.1660)
2019-09-27	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)
2019-05-03	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)
2018-12-28	Arizona National BBQ Stampede Phoenix, AZ	40 / 47 (644.9828)	2 (178.2972)	32 (164.0000)	41 (155.9084)	47 (146.7772)

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
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)