Announced themselves early
2nd
at their very first contest
Finished 2 of 27 at their very first tracked contest, Esperanza Bonanza (2021-10-22).
- 2021-10-22
- 27-team field
Let's Go Brandon
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1506
peak 1517 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2021-10-22
latest 2022-11-04
Grand champs
0
1 reserve
Category wins
0
2 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 49%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Top-10 streak
2
and counting
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 168.06 · weakest Brisket (132.51)
Road miles
337
mi across 2 mapped stops · furthest 337 mi
Purse competed for
$10K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
606.30 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
342.90 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 0 GCs
Master and Backyard overall scores sit on different scales (Master is out of 720, Backyard out of 360), so they're kept separate — averaging them together would be misleading.
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
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 Brandon 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 111 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.
#3001 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 3 years before Let's Go Brandon's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2985 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1513
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2976 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2014, 7 years before Let's Go Brandon's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#2975 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1511
No shared contest yet.
Level with Let's Go Brandon on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2973 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Let's Go Brandon's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head#2982 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1508
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 3 years before Let's Go Brandon'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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 154.2972 | 154.2972 | 154.30 | top 82% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 172.0800 | 164.0344 | 168.06 | top 37% |
| Pork | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 170.8228 | 155.4516 | 163.14 | top 46% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 132.5144 | 132.5144 | 132.51 | 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.
By state / province
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| MS | 1 | 0 | top 91% |
| AR | 1 | 0 | top 7% |
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 91% |
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 7% |
The story so far (18 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1 yrs
2021-10-22 → 2022-11-04
Busiest season
2022
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
MS
1 of 2 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
2 entries · 0 wins · 2 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 168.06 · weakest Brisket (132.51)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 2 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
100%
2 of 2 contests
Best top-10 run
2
straight contests — and still running
Master average
606.30
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Backyard average
342.90
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
46
35–11 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
337
2 mapped stops · furthest 337 mi
Purse competed for
$10,000
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
1 yrs
2021-10-22 → 2022-11-04
Power rating
1506
peak 1517 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2021
- First tracked contest Esperanza Bonanza
- First call Esperanza Bonanza
- First overall top-10 Esperanza Bonanza
- First overall podium Esperanza Bonanza
- First Reserve Championship Esperanza Bonanza
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score342.9028 Esperanza Bonanza
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)172.0800 Esperanza Bonanza
- 2022
- Career-best overall score606.2976 Biloxi Blues & BBQ Festival
- Most recent contest Biloxi Blues & BBQ 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 91% | 84.2% | 84.2% |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 7% | 95.3% | 95.3% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-11-04 | Biloxi Blues & BBQ Festival 🏅 Biloxi, MS | 10 / 11 (606.2976) | 9 (154.2972) | 7 (164.0344) | 9 (155.4516) | 11 (132.5144) |
| 2021-10-22 | Esperanza Bonanza 🏅 Marion, AR | 2 / 27 (342.9028) | — | 3 (172.0800) | 3 (170.8228) | — |