High-water mark
682.8344
career-best overall
94.8% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 682.8344 at New Jersey State BBQ Championship — 94.8% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- Jul 9, 2021
Crescent Moon
Crescent Moon is a competition barbecue team with 5 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2017 and 2022. Their best overall finish is 2nd of 59 at the New Jersey State BBQ Championship (2021), and they have finished Reserve Grand Champion once. They finished #480 in the 2021 Master Series Team of the Year standings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1525
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 4
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
Sep 30, 2017
latest Jul 9, 2022 · 4.8 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
1 reserve
Category wins
1
1 podium
Overall top-10s
1
20% of 5 contests
Avg finish
top 39%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
20%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±33.81
spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 168.70 · weakest Brisket (160.58)
Road miles
261
across 5 mapped stops · furthest 73 mi
Schedule strength
42%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1555)
Purse competed for
$24K
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 3 state-championship entries
Master avg
654.24 / 720
4 Master contests · 0 GCs
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 Crescent Moon, each with one reason worth a look.
Crescent Moon 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 92 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#2,364 of the rated field
- Contests
- 8
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 13%
- Peak
- 1525
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 8 contests to 5.
⚔ Compare careers#2,366 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1524
Their last contest in the data was back in 2014, 8 years before Crescent Moon's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#2,355 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1525
Level with Crescent Moon on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#2,375 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 43%
- Peak
- 1531
Their rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 7 contests, alongside a 43% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Compare careers#2,353 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1525
Careers of much the same size, 7 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#2,363 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 14%
- Peak
- 1526
Careers of much the same size, 7 contests to 5, 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 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 179.4400 | 155.9772 | 168.70 | top 39% |
| Pork Ribs | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 170.2972 | 148.5488 | 162.61 | top 55% |
| Pork | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.8228 | 155.4172 | 161.54 | top 51% |
| Brisket | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 171.4172 | 136.5944 | 160.58 | top 40% |
“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 94% |
| Large (40+) | 3 | 0 | top 21% |
More numbers
Busiest season
2021
3 contests
Contests a season
1.7
across 3 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
NJ
5 of 5 contests
Contests visited
4
a different one every time
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
5 entries · 0 wins · 1 call
Opponents faced
122
finished ahead 132 times, behind 55
Longest layoff
3.6 yrs
Sep 30, 2017 → Apr 23, 2021
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20222 milestones
- Peak power rating (1525) New Jersey State Barbecue Championship
- Most recent contest New Jersey State Barbecue Championship
20218 milestones
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score667.9428 New Jersey KnoQ-out: Day 2-CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES
- First call New Jersey State BBQ Championship
- First category win (Chicken) New Jersey State BBQ Championship
- First overall top-10 New Jersey State BBQ Championship
- First overall podium New Jersey State BBQ Championship
- First Reserve Championship New Jersey State BBQ Championship
- Career-best overall score682.8344 New Jersey State BBQ Championship
- Career-best single call (Chicken)179.4400 New Jersey State BBQ Championship
20171 milestone
- First tracked contest Red, White and Que
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +16.5 | New Jersey State BBQ Championship | Jul 9, 2021 |
| +10 | New Jersey State Barbecue Championship | Jul 9, 2022 |
| +9 | New Jersey KnoQ-out: Day 2-CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES | Apr 24, 2021 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -10.9 | Red, White and Que | Sep 30, 2017 |
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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 21% | 93% | 93% |
| 2021 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 33% | top 20% | 94.8% | 93.8% |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 94% | 82.9% | 82.9% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 2022 | New Jersey State Barbecue Championship 🏅 North Wildwood, NJ | 13 / 61 (669.6572) | 11 (172) | 22 (167.4172) | 31 (162.2400) | 12 (168) |
| Jul 9, 2021 | New Jersey State BBQ Championship 🏅 North Wildwood, NJ | 2 / 59 (682.8344) | 1 (179.4400) | 7 (170.2972) | 23 (161.6800) | 6 (171.4172) |
| Apr 24, 2021 | New Jersey KnoQ-out: Day 2-CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES 🏅 Blairstown, NJ | 15 / 40 (667.9428) | 23 (167.3828) | 17 (167.4400) | 16 (166.8228) | 14 (166.2972) |
| Apr 23, 2021 | New Jersey KnoQ-out - One Meat Rib Contest Jackson, NJ | — | — | 16 (159.3716) | — | — |
| Sep 30, 2017 | Red, White and Que Cresskill, NJ | 29 / 31 (596.5376) | 24 (155.9772) | 29 (148.5488) | 23 (155.4172) | 29 (136.5944) |