Their season
2022
their best year
2022 was the year it came together: 4 contests, 0 Grand Championships and 0 category wins, at an average finish in the top 33%.
- 4 contests
- 0 overall top-10s
- 0 category wins
- average top 33%
Kutz Q BBQ
Kutz Q BBQ is a competition barbecue team with 6 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2021 and 2022. Their best overall finish is 17th of 50 at the BBQ Gives Back (Day 2) (Masters and Backyard) (2022).
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1506
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 4
Contests
6
in the data
First seen
Oct 15, 2021
latest Mar 26, 2022
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
0% of 6 contests
Avg finish
top 51%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 159.11 · weakest Pork Ribs (156.22)
Road miles
319
across 6 mapped stops · furthest 207 mi
Schedule strength
63%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1580)
Purse competed for
$41K
listed at 4 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 3 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
300.21 / 360
2 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
Backyard (3-meat) avg
483.70 / 540
2 Backyard (3-meat) contests · 0 GCs
These overall scores sit on different scales (Backyard out of 360, Backyard (3-meat) out of 540), 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 Kutz Q BBQ, each with one reason worth a look.
Kutz Q BBQ 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 110 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#2,977 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1507
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#2,962 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1508
Level with Kutz Q BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#2,988 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#2,968 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1511
Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2021.
⚔ Compare careers#2,970 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#2,980 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1506
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 4 years before Kutz Q BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careersBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164.5372 | 149.0744 | 157.12 | top 68% |
| Pork Ribs | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.3316 | 143.3828 | 156.22 | top 65% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164.5600 | 153.6684 | 159.11 | top 26% |
“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 69% |
| Large (40+) | 2 | 0 | top 33% |
Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BBQ Gives Back (Day 2) (Masters and Backyard) | 2 | 17 | 0 | top 33% | Mar 26, 2022 |
More numbers
Busiest season
2022
4 contests
Contests a season
3
across 2 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
VA
4 of 6 contests · 3 states in all
Contests visited
3
1 of them more than once
Opponents faced
162
finished ahead 119 times, behind 136
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20224 milestones
- Career-best overall score484.5372 BBQ Gives Back (Day 2) (Masters and Backyard)
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)166.3316 BBQ Gives Back (Day 2) (Masters and Backyard)
- Peak power rating (1506) BBQ Gives Back (Day 2) (Masters and Backyard)
- Most recent contest BBQ Gives Back (Day 2) (Masters and Backyard)
20211 milestone
- First tracked contest Maryland State BBQ Bash
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +6.4 | BBQ Gives Back (Day 1) (Masters and Backyard) | Mar 25, 2022 |
| +5.5 | BBQ Gives Back (Day 2) (Masters and Backyard) | Mar 26, 2022 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -3.7 | Maryland State BBQ Bash | Oct 15, 2021 |
| -1.8 | Red White & Que: Day 1 CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES | Oct 22, 2021 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 33% | 89.7% | 89.6% |
| 2021 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 69% | 85.5% | 83.4% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 2022 | BBQ Gives Back (Day 2) (Masters and Backyard) 🏅 Urbanna, VA | 17 / 50 (484.5372) | 17 (164.5372) | 12 (166.3316) | 15 (153.6684) | — |
| Mar 25, 2022 | BBQ Gives Back (Day 1) (Masters and Backyard) 🏅 Urbanna, VA | 17 / 53 (482.8688) | 17 (159.4400) | 15 (158.8688) | 12 (164.5600) | — |
| Mar 25, 2022 | BBQ Gives Back (Day 1) (Masters and Backyard) (One Meat Chicken) Urbanna, VA | — | 26 (154.8228) | — | — | — |
| Mar 25, 2022 | BBQ Gives Back (Day 1) (Masters and Backyard) (One Meat Ribs) Urbanna, VA | — | — | 23 (162.3088) | — | — |
| Oct 22, 2021 | Red White & Que: Day 1 CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES Jackson, NJ | 17 / 31 (292.4572) | 16 (149.0744) | 18 (143.3828) | — | — |
| Oct 15, 2021 | Maryland State BBQ Bash 🏅 Belair, MD | 21 / 25 (307.9660) | 21 (157.7372) | 26 (150.2288) | — | — |