#3340 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1500
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headCronies BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1497
peak 1497 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2022-04-01
latest 2023-03-31
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 58%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 161.12 · weakest Pork Ribs (159.97)
Road miles
0
mi across 2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$12K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
321.09 / 360
2 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
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.
Cronies 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 117 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.
#3366 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
Level with Cronies BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3363 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1496
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3329 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1509
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 6 years before Cronies BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3342 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2013, 9 years before Cronies BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3365 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1496
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2015, 8 years before Cronies 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 | 162.2400 | 160.0000 | 161.12 | top 56% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2972 | 153.6456 | 159.97 | top 57% |
| Pork | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
| Brisket | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
“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 contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 78% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 38% |
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa State BBQ Championship | 2 | 18 | 0 | top 58% | 2023-03-31 |
The story so far (15 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1 yrs
2022-04-01 → 2023-03-31
Busiest season
2023
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
IA
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
1
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 161.12 · weakest Pork Ribs (159.97)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 2 contests
Backyard average
321.09
out of 360 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
88
48–54 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
0
2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$12,000
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Power rating
1497
peak 1497 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2022
- First tracked contest Iowa State BBQ Championship (Backyard)
- 2023
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score326.2972 Iowa State BBQ Championship
- Career-best overall score326.2972 Iowa State BBQ Championship
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)166.2972 Iowa State BBQ Championship
- Most recent contest Iowa State BBQ Championship
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 38% | 90.6% | 90.6% |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 78% | 87.7% | 87.7% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-03-31 | Iowa State BBQ Championship 🏅 Altoona, IA | 18 / 47 (326.2972) | 23 (160.0000) | 14 (166.2972) | — | — |
| 2022-04-01 | Iowa State BBQ Championship (Backyard) Altoona, IA | 21 / 27 (315.8856) | 17 (162.2400) | 23 (153.6456) | — | — |
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 ↗ | Backyard | — | #329 (66 pts) | #287 (111 pts) | — | — |
| 2022 ↗ | Backyard | — | #294 (92 pts) | #331 (62 pts) | — | — |