A tough matchup
3–0
behind in the head-to-head
Meat Candy Q ahead in 100% of their meetings
Meat Candy Q has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
Let's go BBQ!
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1471
peak 1471 · rated over 3 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2022-06-03
latest 2022-11-04
Best ToY finish
#1065
Master 2022
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 91%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
643.47
last 3 Master vs avg 643.47 (+0.00)
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±9.00
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 164.37 · weakest Brisket (154.40)
Road miles
112
mi across 3 mapped stops · furthest 52 mi
Schedule strength
56%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1571)
Purse competed for
$32K
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 3 state-championship entries
Master avg
643.47 / 720
3 Master contests · 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.
Let's go 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 133 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.
#4583 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1471
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#4586 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1471
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 4 years before Let's go BBQ!'s most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#4577 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1471
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2013, 9 years before Let's go BBQ!'s first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#4602 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1470
No shared contest yet.
Level with Let's go BBQ! on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#4595 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1470
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 5 years before Let's go BBQ!'s most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#4597 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1470
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 5 years before Let's go 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.4056 | 158.2516 | 162.83 | top 83% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 172.0116 | 157.6916 | 164.37 | top 75% |
| Pork | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.2628 | 161.1088 | 161.87 | top 85% |
| Brisket | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.8000 | 148.4800 | 154.40 | top 87% |
“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 (15 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0.4 yrs
2022-06-03 → 2022-11-04
Busiest season
2022
3 contests
Cooks most in
CA
3 of 3 contests
Contests visited
3
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
3 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 164.37 · weakest Brisket (154.40)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 3 contests
Master average
643.47
out of 720 · 3 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
68
9–91 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
112
3 mapped stops · furthest 52 mi
Schedule strength
1571
average field rating faced — tougher than 56% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$32,400
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 3 state-championship entries
Power rating
1471
peak 1471 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2022
- First tracked contest Horse Town Brew N Que Festival
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)172.0116 Horse Town Brew N Que Festival
- Peak power rating (1489) Horse Town Brew N Que Festival
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score655.8512 2022 Indio California State BBQ Championship & Festival
- Career-best overall score655.8512 2022 Indio California State BBQ Championship & Festival
- Most recent contest 2022 Indio California State BBQ Championship & Festival
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -11.5 | Reata Round Up BBQ Contest | 2022-08-12 |
| -11.2 | Horse Town Brew N Que Festival | 2022-06-03 |
| -6.9 | 2022 Indio California State BBQ Championship & Festival | 2022-11-04 |
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 | 0% | top 91% | 91.1% | 89.4% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-11-04 | 2022 Indio California State BBQ Championship & Festival 🏅 Indio, CA | 30 / 35 (655.8512) | 27 (167.4056) | 30 (163.4056) | 32 (162.2400) | 26 (162.8000) |
| 2022-08-12 | Reata Round Up BBQ Contest 🏅 San Juan Capistrano, CA | 24 / 25 (634.7088) | 21 (162.8344) | 24 (157.6916) | 19 (162.2628) | 22 (151.9200) |
| 2022-06-03 | Horse Town Brew N Que Festival 🏅 Norco, CA | 34 / 37 (639.8520) | 32 (158.2516) | 16 (172.0116) | 32 (161.1088) | 37 (148.4800) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 ↗ | Master | #1255 (60 pts) | #1319 (60 pts) | #1432 (60 pts) | #1287 (60 pts) | #1296 (60 pts) |
| 2022 ↗ | Master | #1065 (115 pts) | #1017 (130 pts) | #989 (160 pts) | #987 (140 pts) | #1001 (125 pts) |