The one to beat
2×
one call ahead of them
Rubbed the Right Way has finished one call ahead of Fat Side Up BBQ 2 times — their closest competition in the data.
Fat Side Up BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1478
peak 1478 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2022-09-16
latest 2022-09-17
Best ToY finish
#856
Master 2022
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 100%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 157.12 · weakest Brisket (139.65)
Road miles
2,115
mi across 3 mapped stops · furthest 2115 mi
Purse competed for
$20K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
596.42 / 720
2 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.
The comeback
4.6 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 4.6 years, then back at BBQ on the Bay Day 1 (2022-09-16).
- last seen 2018-01-26
- back 2022-09-16
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.
Fat Side Up BBQ has 2 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 140 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.
#4234 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1478
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 6 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#4222 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1478
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2014, 8 years before Fat Side Up BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#4245 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1477
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 3 years before Fat Side Up BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#4221 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1478
No shared contest yet.
Level with Fat Side Up BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#4229 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1478
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 4 years before Fat Side Up BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#4232 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1478
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 5 years before Fat Side Up 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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.1200 | 143.3828 | 152.25 | top 97% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 149.7372 | 145.0628 | 147.40 | top 100% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.3940 | 150.8456 | 157.12 | top 97% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 146.2516 | 133.0516 | 139.65 | top 100% |
“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
2022-09-16 → 2022-09-17
Busiest season
2022
2 contests
Contests a season
1.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
CA
2 of 3 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 157.12 · weakest Brisket (139.65)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 3 contests
Master average
596.42
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
16
0–31 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
2,115
3 mapped stops · furthest 2,115 mi
Purse competed for
$20,000
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
4.6 yrs
2018-01-26 → 2022-09-16
Power rating
1478
peak 1478 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2018
- First tracked contest Lakeland Pig Festival
- 2022
- Career-best overall score598.0912 BBQ on the Bay Day 2
- Career-best single call (Pork)163.3940 BBQ on the Bay Day 2
- Most recent contest BBQ on the Bay Day 2
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 100% | 83.1% | 82.8% |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-09-17 | BBQ on the Bay Day 2 🏅 San Diego, CA | 16 / 16 (598.0912) | 16 (143.3828) | 16 (145.0628) | 15 (163.3940) | 16 (146.2516) |
| 2022-09-16 | BBQ on the Bay Day 1 🏅 San Diego, CA | 17 / 17 (594.7544) | 16 (161.1200) | 17 (149.7372) | 17 (150.8456) | 17 (133.0516) |
| 2018-01-26 | Lakeland Pig Festival Lakeland, FL | — | — | — | — | — |
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 | #856 (168 pts) | #894 (173 pts) | #969 (168 pts) | #898 (173 pts) | #887 (168 pts) |