A tough matchup
4–0
behind in the head-to-head
PORKRASTINATORS ahead in 100% of their meetings
PORKRASTINATORS has come out ahead in 4 of their 4 shared contests.
Beauty and the Beef
Beauty and the Beef is a competition barbecue team with 6 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2019 and 2020. Their best overall finish is 14th of 38 at the Saluting With Smoke (COMPETITORS SERIES) (). They finished #856 in the 2020 Master Series Team of the Year standings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1485
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 41 invitational or side-series contest not counted
Contests
6
in the data
First seen
Jun 21, 2019
latest Oct 16, 2020 · 1.3 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
0% of 6 contests
Avg finish
top 63%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±9.39
spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 162.68 · weakest Chicken (156.93)
Road miles
274
across 4 mapped stops · furthest 102 mi
Schedule strength
66%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1583)
Purse competed for
$28K
listed at 4 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 4 state-championship entries
Master avg
642.19 / 720
4 Master contests · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
293.11 / 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)
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to Beauty and the Beef, each with one reason worth a look.
Beauty and the Beef has 4 rated contests, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 159 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#3,929 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1485
0–1 in 1 shared contest (0% to Beauty and the Beef)
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Beauty and the Beef has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head#3,895 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 14%
- Peak
- 1513
0–1 in 1 shared contest (0% to Beauty and the Beef)
Careers of much the same size, 7 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#3,893 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1485
Level with Beauty and the Beef on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#3,890 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1506
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#3,917 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
They turned up 5 years after Beauty and the Beef did, first appearing in 2024.
⚔ Compare careers#3,915 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1485
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careersBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.1544 | 141.6800 | 156.93 | top 71% |
| Pork Ribs | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.8228 | 150.8344 | 157.12 | top 63% |
| Pork | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.1312 | 160.5144 | 162.68 | top 60% |
| Brisket | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.1084 | 152.5028 | 160.11 | top 61% |
“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) | 2 | 0 | top 49% |
| Large (40+) | 4 | 0 | top 70% |
More numbers
Busiest season
2019
3 contests
Contests a season
2
across 3 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
IL
4 of 6 contests · 2 states in all
Contests visited
6
a different one every time
Opponents faced
212
finished ahead 98 times, behind 196
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20201 milestone
- Most recent contest Best of the Midwest BBQ
20193 milestones
- Peak power rating (1497) Heritage Days BBQ Showdown Day 1
- Career-best single call (Brisket)169.1084 Central Illinois BBQ Throwdown
- Career-best overall score650.8228 Best of the Midwest
—2 milestones
- First tracked contest Vine St BBQ Competition & Fest (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score493.0172 Saluting With Smoke (COMPETITORS SERIES)
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +4.7 | Best of the Midwest | Oct 18, 2019 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -9.3 | Best of the Midwest BBQ | Oct 16, 2020 |
| -8 | Central Illinois BBQ Throwdown | Jul 19, 2019 |
| -2.6 | Heritage Days BBQ Showdown Day 1 | Jun 21, 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 49% | 91.3% | 86.4% |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 86% | 87.1% | 87.1% |
| 2019 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 64% | 90.4% | 89.9% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 16, 2020 | Best of the Midwest BBQ 🏅 Union Grove, WI | 43 / 50 (627.3028) | 38 (159.4172) | 45 (150.8344) | 26 (164.5484) | 41 (152.5028) |
| Oct 18, 2019 | Best of the Midwest 🏅 Union Grove, WI | 24 / 52 (650.8228) | 21 (165.1544) | 22 (162.8228) | 21 (165.1312) | 37 (157.7144) |
| Jul 19, 2019 | Central Illinois BBQ Throwdown 🏅 Peoria, IL | 29 / 40 (649.6000) | 34 (158.2516) | 26 (161.7144) | 29 (160.5256) | 12 (169.1084) |
| Jun 21, 2019 | Heritage Days BBQ Showdown Day 1 🏅 Belvidere, IL | 37 / 50 (641.0176) | 38 (161.1316) | 34 (158.2744) | 37 (160.5144) | 30 (161.0972) |
| — | Saluting With Smoke (COMPETITORS SERIES) unrated Yorkville, IL | 14 / 38 (493.0172) | 25 (155.9200) | 25 (157.6572) | — | — |
| — | Vine St BBQ Competition & Fest (BACKYARD ONLY) Park Ridge, IL | 24 / 39 (293.1088) | 32 (141.6800) | 18 (151.4288) | — | — |
An unrated contest — an invitational, or a Competitor or Kosher Series board — is in the record but doesn’t move the power rating.