The comeback
7.2 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 7.2 years, then back at Maryland State BBQ Bash (2021-10-15).
- last seen 2014-08-08
- back 2021-10-15
Red Nex BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1494
peak 1494 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2021-10-15
latest 2021-10-15
Best ToY finish
#1540
Master 2021
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 96%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 158.27 · weakest Brisket (145.67)
Road miles
0
mi across 3 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$13K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Master avg
598.79 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Storylines (1 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.
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.
Red Nex BBQ has 1 rated contest — 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 129 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.
#3450 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1494
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#3459 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 3 years before Red Nex BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3480 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
Level with Red Nex BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3467 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1494
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2014, 7 years before Red Nex BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3466 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2016, 5 years before Red Nex BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3461 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1501
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2016, 5 years before Red Nex 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.2744 | 158.2744 | 158.27 | top 84% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 146.8456 | 146.8456 | 146.85 | top 100% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 148.0000 | 148.0000 | 148.00 | top 96% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 145.6688 | 145.6688 | 145.67 | top 92% |
“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 yrs
2021-10-15 → 2021-10-15
Busiest season
2021
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 3 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
MD
3 of 3 contests
Contests visited
1
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
1 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 158.27 · weakest Brisket (145.67)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 3 contests
Master average
598.79
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
62
15–46 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
0
3 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$12,500
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
7.2 yrs
2014-08-08 → 2021-10-15
Power rating
1494
peak 1494 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2013
- First tracked contest 12th Annual Maryland State BBQ Bash
- 2021
- Career-best overall score598.7888 Maryland State BBQ Bash
- Career-best single call (Chicken)158.2744 Maryland State BBQ Bash
- Most recent contest Maryland State BBQ Bash
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)
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 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 96% | 83.2% | 83.2% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-10-15 | Maryland State BBQ Bash 🏅 Belair, MD | 24 / 25 (598.7888) | 21 (158.2744) | 25 (146.8456) | 24 (148.0000) | 23 (145.6688) |
| 2014-08-08 | MD State BBQ Bash, Presented by Mars Super Markets Bel Air, MD | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2013-08-09 | 12th Annual Maryland State BBQ Bash Bel Air, MD | — | — | — | — | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 ↗ | Master | #1540 (55 pts) | #1252 (70 pts) | #1616 (50 pts) | #1539 (55 pts) | #1245 (60 pts) |