High-water mark
676.4684
career-best overall
94.0% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 676.4684 at A Celebration of Our Heroes — 94.0% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- Sep 3, 2021
Team Meat Candy
Team Meat Candy is a competition barbecue team with 5 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2015 and 2021. Their best overall finish is 10th of 20 at the A Celebration of Our Heroes (2021). They finished #917 in the 2021 Master Series Team of the Year standings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1516
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 32 invitational or side-series contests not counted
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
Oct 2, 2015
latest Sep 3, 2021 · 5.9 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podium
Overall top-10s
1
20% of 5 contests
Avg finish
top 56%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
20%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±8.11
spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Brisket
avg 168.65 · weakest Pork (162.14)
Road miles
268
across 5 mapped stops · furthest 242 mi
Schedule strength
59%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1575)
Purse competed for
$10K
listed at 1 contest — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 1 state-championship entry
Master avg
665.49 / 720
5 Master contests · 0 GCs
Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 ↗ | Master | #917 (120 pts) | #863 (160 pts) | #682 (245 pts) | #1148 (90 pts) | #1150 (85 pts) |
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to Team Meat Candy, each with one reason worth a look.
Team Meat Candy has 3 rated contests, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 75 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#2,638 of the rated field
- Contests
- 74
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 5%
- Peak
- 1515
1–1 in 2 shared contests (50% to Team Meat Candy)
2 contests in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Team Meat Candy has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head#2,628 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1516
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#2,627 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1526
Level with Team Meat Candy on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#2,620 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1516
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 4 years before Team Meat Candy's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#2,634 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1516
Their last contest in the data was back in 2013, 8 years before Team Meat Candy's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#2,632 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 100%
- Peak
- 1516
They turned up 6 years after Team Meat Candy did, first appearing in 2021.
⚔ Compare careersBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 172.5600 | 157.6456 | 166.15 | top 55% |
| Pork Ribs | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 177.1428 | 158.8344 | 168.56 | top 42% |
| Pork | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.9772 | 153.6456 | 162.14 | top 72% |
| Brisket | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 174.2856 | 163.9428 | 168.65 | top 45% |
“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 50% |
| Large (40+) | 4 | 0 | top 58% |
Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 37th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue (OPEN) | 2 | 139 | 0 | top 53% | Oct 29, 2016 |
More numbers
Busiest season
2016
2 contests
Contests a season
1.7
across 3 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
KS
2 of 5 contests · 3 states in all
Contests visited
4
1 of them more than once
Opponents faced
873
finished ahead 787 times, behind 756
Longest layoff
4.8 yrs
Oct 29, 2016 → Sep 3, 2021
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20216 milestones
- First call A Celebration of Our Heroes
- First overall top-10 A Celebration of Our Heroes
- Career-best overall score676.4684 A Celebration of Our Heroes
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)177.1428 A Celebration of Our Heroes
- Peak power rating (1516) A Celebration of Our Heroes
- Most recent contest A Celebration of Our Heroes
20152 milestones
- First tracked contest 36th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbeque- Invitational
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score665.6000 36th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbeque- Invitational
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +9.6 | 37th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue (OPEN) | Oct 29, 2016 |
| +4.4 | A Celebration of Our Heroes | Sep 3, 2021 |
| +1.7 | 36th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbeque- Open | Oct 3, 2015 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 50% | 94% | 94% |
| 2016 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 53% | 92.8% | 92.6% |
| 2015 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 62% | 92.4% | 91.5% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 3, 2021 | A Celebration of Our Heroes 🏅 Madison, IL | 10 / 20 (676.4684) | 6 (172) | 2 (177.1428) | 16 (163.3828) | 17 (163.9428) |
| Oct 29, 2016 | 37th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue (OPEN) Kansas City, KS | 161 / 557 (667.9196) | 423 (157.6456) | 49 (173.1428) | 317 (162.8456) | 39 (174.2856) |
| Oct 28, 2016 | 37th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue (INVITATIONAL) unrated Kansas City, KS | 139 / 180 (666.1828) | 119 (168) | 106 (167.3828) | 149 (162.8344) | 99 (167.9656) |
| Oct 3, 2015 | 36th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbeque- Open Kansas City, MO | 315 / 606 (651.2800) | 80 (172.5600) | 418 (158.8344) | 506 (153.6456) | 213 (166.2400) |
| Oct 2, 2015 | 36th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbeque- Invitational unrated Kansas City, MO | 136 / 187 (665.6000) | 170 (160.5256) | 114 (166.2744) | 102 (167.9772) | 76 (170.8228) |
An unrated contest — an invitational, or a Competitor or Kosher Series board — is in the record but doesn’t move the power rating.