The one to beat
2×
one call ahead of them
Carbo-Q has finished one call ahead of MASON JAR BBQ 2 times — their closest competition in the data.
MASON JAR BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1453
peak 1453 · rated over 5 contests ⓘ
Contests
7
in the data
First seen
2021-07-16
latest 2022-06-10
Best ToY finish
#620
Master 2022
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 7 contests
Avg finish
top 93%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
633.66
last 5 Master vs avg 633.66 (+0.00)
Walk rate
43%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±9.04
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 167.18 · weakest Pork Ribs (151.03)
Road miles
224
mi across 7 mapped stops · furthest 132 mi
Schedule strength
83%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1609)
Purse competed for
$28K
listed at 7 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 5 state-championship entries
Master avg
633.66 / 720
5 Master contests · 0 GCs
Storylines (5 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.
A tough matchup
5–0
behind in the head-to-head
Gold-N-Blue Barbecue ahead in 100% of their meetings
Gold-N-Blue Barbecue has come out ahead in 5 of their 5 shared contests.
The weak link
−16.2
points behind their best meat
Pork Ribs is where the weekend gets away from them — it averages 16.16 points below their pork, and turns into a call 0% of the time against 40%.
- Pork Ribs avg 151.03
- Pork avg 167.18
- 0 calls in 7 entries
They cook the hard rooms
1609
average field rating faced
A tougher draw than 83% of rated fields
The fields they enter average a 1609 power rating — a tougher draw than 83% of every rated contest in the data.
- 5 rated contests
Going the wrong way
-36
rating points in a year
The rating has slipped 36 points across 5 contests since 2021-07-16 — from 1489 down to 1453.
- 5 contests since 2021-07-16
- now 1453
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.
114 rated teams sit within a point of this rating, so a place on this list means the numbers match — no more than that.
#5393 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1453
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 7, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#5385 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1453
No shared contest yet.
Level with MASON JAR BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#5387 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1453
No shared contest yet.
Their rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 6 contests, alongside a 17% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-head#5358 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1454
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2016, 5 years before MASON JAR BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#5381 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1453
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 3 years before MASON JAR BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#5390 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1453
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 4 years before MASON JAR BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headFamiliar foes (most-met opponents in overall standings — one meeting per contest)
| Opponent | Meetings | Ahead | Behind | Win rate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gold-N-Blue Barbecue | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| HIGH ON THE HOG OHIO | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| Ham Squad | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| D’Qued Barbeque | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| LEM'S MEAT VARNISH | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
By meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 175.4400 | 150.8344 | 163.30 | top 68% |
| Pork Ribs | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.6688 | 138.1144 | 151.03 | top 91% |
| Pork | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 176.0116 | 162.7884 | 167.18 | top 69% |
| Brisket | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.5256 | 150.7656 | 153.54 | top 91% |
“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.
The story so far (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0.9 yrs
2021-07-16 → 2022-06-10
Busiest season
2021
4 contests
Contests a season
3.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
WV
7 of 7 contests
Contests visited
5
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
7 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 167.18 · weakest Pork Ribs (151.03)
Walk rate
43%
a top-10 call in 3 of 7 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 7 contests
Master average
633.66
out of 720 · 5 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
65
5–124 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
224
7 mapped stops · furthest 132 mi
Schedule strength
1609
average field rating faced — tougher than 83% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$28,450
listed at 7 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 5 state-championship entries
Power rating
1453
peak 1453 · #5379 of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2021
- First tracked contest Almost Heaven Rib Fest - One Meat Rib Contest A
- First call Country Roads BBQ Clash Day 1
- Peak power rating (1489) Country Roads BBQ Clash Day 1
- 2022
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score649.0060 Forks of the Buffalo BBQ Throwdown - Day 2
- Career-best overall score649.0060 Forks of the Buffalo BBQ Throwdown - Day 2
- Career-best single call (Pork)176.0116 Forks of the Buffalo BBQ Throwdown - Day 2
- Most recent contest WV Coalfields Cookoff
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -10.7 | Country Roads BBQ Clash Day 1 | 2021-07-16 |
| -9.9 | Country Roads BBQ Clash Day 2 | 2021-07-17 |
| -9.3 | Forks of the Buffalo BBQ Throwdown - Day 2 | 2022-05-21 |
| -8.4 | Forks of the Buffalo BBQ Throwdown - Day 1 | 2022-05-20 |
| -8.2 | WV Coalfields Cookoff | 2022-06-10 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 67% | top 93% | 90.1% | 88.5% |
| 2021 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25% | top 94% | 87.9% | 87.3% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-06-10 | WV Coalfields Cookoff 🏅 Welch, WV | 13 / 15 (636.9256) | 12 (159.4056) | 12 (161.6688) | 11 (162.7884) | 13 (153.0628) |
| 2022-05-21 | Forks of the Buffalo BBQ Throwdown - Day 2 🏅 Mannington, WV | 13 / 13 (649.0060) | 3 (175.4400) | 13 (146.7544) | 6 (176.0116) | 13 (150.8000) |
| 2022-05-20 | Forks of the Buffalo BBQ Throwdown - Day 1 🏅 Mannington, WV | 13 / 14 (625.4744) | 6 (173.7372) | 14 (138.1144) | 12 (162.8572) | 13 (150.7656) |
| 2021-07-17 | Country Roads BBQ Clash Day 2 🏅 Morgantown, WV | 14 / 15 (623.8972) | 15 (150.8344) | 15 (148.5600) | 14 (163.9772) | 12 (160.5256) |
| 2021-07-16 | Country Roads BBQ Clash Day 1 🏅 Morgantown, WV | 17 / 18 (633.0060) | 17 (157.0972) | 17 (153.0860) | 8 (170.2856) | 17 (152.5372) |
| 2021-05-01 | Almost Heaven Rib Fest - One Meat Rib Contest B Buckhannon, WV | — | — | 12 (154.7884) | — | — |
| 2021-05-01 | Almost Heaven Rib Fest - One Meat Rib Contest A Buckhannon, WV | — | — | 13 (154.2172) | — | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 ↗ | Master | #620 (297 pts) | #472 (472 pts) | #698 (297 pts) | #559 (367 pts) | #651 (297 pts) |
| 2021 ↗ | Master | #769 (178 pts) | #833 (173 pts) | #524 (379 pts) | #674 (233 pts) | #770 (188 pts) |