High-water mark
680.4568
career-best overall
94.5% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 680.4568 at Green Mountain BBQ Championship — 94.5% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2015-06-27
America's Test Chicken
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1515
peak 1518 · rated over 3 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2015-06-27
latest 2022-07-23
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
3 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 37%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
661.07
last 3 Master vs avg 661.07 (+0.00)
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Top-10 streak
2
best run (overall)
Consistency
±16.85
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 168.40 · weakest Brisket (162.65)
Road miles
62
mi across 3 mapped stops · furthest 40 mi
Schedule strength
47%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1560)
Purse competed for
$12K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
661.07 / 720
3 Master contests · 0 GCs
Storylines (6 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.
A tough matchup
3–0
behind in the head-to-head
SMOKIN HOGGZ BBQ - MA ahead in 100% of their meetings
SMOKIN HOGGZ BBQ - MA has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
A strong matchup
3–0
ahead in the head-to-head
Ahead in 100% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of SQUEELS ON WHEELS in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
The comeback
4.1 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 4.1 years, then back at The Harpoon Brewery BBQ Festival (2019-07-27).
- last seen 2015-06-27
- back 2019-07-27
Announced themselves early
5th
at their very first contest
Finished 5 of 23 at their very first tracked contest, Green Mountain BBQ Championship (2015-06-27).
- 2015-06-27
- 23-team field
Looking over their shoulder
2×
one call behind them
Udder Chaos has landed one call behind them 2 times.
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.
America's Test Chicken 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 81 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.
#2637 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1515
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#2642 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 6 years after America's Test Chicken did, first appearing in 2021.
⚔ Head-to-head#2620 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1526
No shared contest yet.
Level with America's Test Chicken on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2621 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 100%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
6 straight overall top-10s says this rating is a moving target.
⚔ Head-to-head#2635 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1519
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 6 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#2627 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1519
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 3 years before America's Test Chicken'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 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 175.4056 | 163.9772 | 168.40 | top 40% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 170.3088 | 157.6800 | 163.62 | top 46% |
| Pork | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 175.4056 | 149.6800 | 164.93 | top 41% |
| Brisket | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 171.9656 | 152.5716 | 162.65 | top 43% |
“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.
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Harpoon Brewery BBQ Festival | 2 | 8 | 0 | top 44% | 2022-07-23 |
The story so far (18 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
7.1 yrs
2015-06-27 → 2022-07-23
Busiest season
2022
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 3 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
VT
3 of 3 contests
Contests visited
2
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
4 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 168.40 · weakest Brisket (162.65)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 3 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
67%
2 of 3 contests
Best top-10 run
2
straight contests
Master average
661.07
out of 720 · 3 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
56
46–31 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
62
3 mapped stops · furthest 40 mi
Schedule strength
1560
average field rating faced — tougher than 47% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$12,000
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
4.1 yrs
2015-06-27 → 2019-07-27
Power rating
1515
peak 1518 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2015
- First tracked contest Green Mountain BBQ Championship
- First call Green Mountain BBQ Championship
- First overall top-10 Green Mountain BBQ Championship
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score680.4568 Green Mountain BBQ Championship
- Career-best overall score680.4568 Green Mountain BBQ Championship
- Career-best single call (Chicken)175.4056 Green Mountain BBQ Championship
- 2019
- Peak power rating (1518) The Harpoon Brewery BBQ Festival
- 2022
- Most recent contest The Harpoon Brewery BBQ Festival
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +12 | Green Mountain BBQ Championship | 2015-06-27 |
| +6 | The Harpoon Brewery BBQ Festival | 2019-07-27 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -2.7 | The Harpoon Brewery BBQ Festival | 2022-07-23 |
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 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 64% | 88.8% | 88.8% |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 24% | — | — |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 22% | 94.5% | 94.5% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-07-23 | The Harpoon Brewery BBQ Festival 🏅 Windsor, VT | 16 / 25 (639.3716) | 13 (166.8112) | 2 (170.3088) | 22 (149.6800) | 17 (152.5716) |
| 2019-07-27 | The Harpoon Brewery BBQ Festival 🏅 Windsor, VT | 8 / 33 (673.0744) | 14 (163.9772) | 20 (162.8688) | 7 (169.7028) | 14 (163.4056) |
| 2015-06-27 | Green Mountain BBQ Championship Waterbury, VT | 5 / 23 (680.4568) | 3 (175.4056) | 16 (157.6800) | 3 (175.4056) | 4 (171.9656) |