High-water mark
667.3032
career-best overall
92.7% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 667.3032 at Boss of the Sauce BBQ Festival — 92.7% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2021-04-09
Centsless BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1484
peak 1484 · rated over 3 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2021-03-19
latest 2022-07-07
Best ToY finish
#896
Master 2021
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 72%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
653.76
last 3 Master vs avg 653.76 (-0.00)
Walk rate
33%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±10.04
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 170.26 · weakest Brisket (160.15)
Road miles
470
mi across 3 mapped stops · furthest 227 mi
Schedule strength
63%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1579)
Purse competed for
$45K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 3 state-championship entries
Master avg
653.76 / 720
3 Master contests · 0 GCs
Storylines (2 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
3–0
behind in the head-to-head
ELITE BBQ SMOKERS ahead in 100% of their meetings
ELITE BBQ SMOKERS has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared 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.
Centsless BBQ has 3 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 131 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.
#3983 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1483
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#3954 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2016, 5 years before Centsless BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3972 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1484
No shared contest yet.
Level with Centsless BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3946 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1484
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#3984 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1483
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 3 years before Centsless BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3987 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1510
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 3 years before Centsless BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 175.4288 | 165.6800 | 170.26 | top 49% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.3828 | 156.5372 | 160.53 | top 75% |
| Pork | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.0000 | 154.8000 | 162.82 | top 69% |
| Brisket | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.6916 | 151.9540 | 160.15 | top 68% |
“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 state / province
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| SC | 2 | 0 | top 80% |
| FL | 1 | 0 | top 57% |
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 92% |
| Large (40+) | 2 | 0 | top 62% |
The story so far (17 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1.3 yrs
2021-03-19 → 2022-07-07
Busiest season
2021
2 contests
Contests a season
1.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
SC
2 of 3 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
3
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
3 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 170.26 · weakest Brisket (160.15)
Walk rate
33%
a top-10 call in 1 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 3 contests
Master average
653.76
out of 720 · 3 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
154
49–135 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
470
3 mapped stops · furthest 227 mi
Schedule strength
1579
average field rating faced — tougher than 63% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$44,850
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 3 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
1.2 yrs
2021-04-09 → 2022-07-07
Power rating
1484
peak 1484 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2021
- First tracked contest Rufus Teague BBQ Throwdown - Dorchester Shrine Club
- Peak power rating (1491) Rufus Teague BBQ Throwdown - Dorchester Shrine Club
- First call Boss of the Sauce BBQ Festival
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score667.3032 Boss of the Sauce BBQ Festival
- Career-best overall score667.3032 Boss of the Sauce BBQ Festival
- Career-best single call (Chicken)175.4288 Boss of the Sauce BBQ Festival
- 2022
- Most recent contest South Carolina Festival of Discovery
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -9.3 | Rufus Teague BBQ Throwdown - Dorchester Shrine Club | 2021-03-19 |
| -4.6 | Boss of the Sauce BBQ Festival | 2021-04-09 |
| -2.5 | South Carolina Festival of Discovery | 2022-07-07 |
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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 67% | 90.4% | 90.4% |
| 2021 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 75% | 92.7% | 91% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-07-07 | South Carolina Festival of Discovery 🏅 Greenwood, SC | 62 / 92 (650.6856) | 39 (169.6800) | 70 (156.5372) | 57 (165.6684) | 64 (158.8000) |
| 2021-04-09 | Boss of the Sauce BBQ Festival 🏅 Jacksonville, FL | 23 / 40 (667.3032) | 8 (175.4288) | 23 (167.3828) | 35 (154.8000) | 15 (169.6916) |
| 2021-03-19 | Rufus Teague BBQ Throwdown - Dorchester Shrine Club 🏅 Summerville, SC | 24 / 26 (643.2912) | 22 (165.6800) | 24 (157.6572) | 15 (168.0000) | 25 (151.9540) |
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 | #1309 (60 pts) | #1341 (60 pts) | #1404 (60 pts) | #1348 (60 pts) | #1333 (60 pts) |
| 2021 ↗ | Master | #896 (126 pts) | #728 (221 pts) | #999 (126 pts) | #839 (161 pts) | #849 (161 pts) |