The comeback
6.7 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 6.7 years, then back at Horse Town Brew n Que Festival (2023-06-02).
- last seen 2016-10-08
- back 2023-06-02
BBQ Rangers
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1498
peak 1504 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2015-09-19
latest 2016-10-08
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
1
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 58%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
67%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 168.85 · weakest Brisket (153.96)
Road miles
5,620
mi across 3 mapped stops · furthest 5537 mi
Purse competed for
$8K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Master avg
644.26 / 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 long haul
5,620
road miles between contests
Contest to contest, they've covered roughly 5,620 miles across 3 mapped stops — the longest single trip being 5,537 miles to Horse Town Brew n Que Festival.
- 3 mapped stops
- furthest 5,537 mi
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.
BBQ Rangers 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 123 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.
#3279 of the rated field
- Contests
- 34
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 29%
- Peak
- 1537
1–0 in 1 shared contest (100% to BBQ Rangers)
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team BBQ Rangers has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head#3295 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#3261 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1499
No shared contest yet.
Their rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 6 contests, alongside a 17% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-head#3285 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
Level with BBQ Rangers on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3288 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1509
No shared contest yet.
Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2015.
⚔ Head-to-head#3287 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1518
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 166.8800 | 162.8572 | 164.87 | top 41% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 174.2744 | 163.4172 | 168.85 | top 26% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 162.9144 | 150.2628 | 156.59 | top 71% |
| Brisket | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 157.1200 | 150.8000 | 153.96 | top 63% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 46% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 70% |
The story so far (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1.1 yrs
2015-09-19 → 2016-10-08
Busiest season
2023
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 3 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
CA
1 of 3 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 1 win · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 168.85 · weakest Brisket (153.96)
Walk rate
67%
a top-10 call in 2 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
33%
1 of 3 contests
Master average
644.26
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
51
21–36 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
5,620
3 mapped stops · furthest 5,537 mi
Purse competed for
$8,000
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
6.7 yrs
2016-10-08 → 2023-06-02
Power rating
1498
peak 1504 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2015
- First tracked contest Het BBQ Kampioenschap Van Het Waasland
- First call Het BBQ Kampioenschap Van Het Waasland
- First category win (Chicken) Het BBQ Kampioenschap Van Het Waasland
- First overall top-10 Het BBQ Kampioenschap Van Het Waasland
- 2016
- Career-best overall score644.5144 4th Annual BBQ Society Cook-off
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)174.2744 4th Annual BBQ Society Cook-off
- 2023
- Most recent contest Horse Town Brew n Que Festival
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% | — | — | — |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 70% | 89.5% | 89.5% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 100% | top 46% | 89.4% | 89.4% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-06-02 | Horse Town Brew n Que Festival 🏅 Norco, CA | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2016-10-08 | 4th Annual BBQ Society Cook-off Hoofddorp. Netherlands, NL | 32 / 46 (644.5144) | 34 (162.8572) | 6 (174.2744) | 44 (150.2628) | 30 (157.1200) |
| 2015-09-19 | Het BBQ Kampioenschap Van Het Waasland Sint-Niklaas, | 6 / 13 (644.0116) | 1 (166.8800) | 5 (163.4172) | 6 (162.9144) | 8 (150.8000) |