A tough matchup
3–0
behind in the head-to-head
CHOOCHOO BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings
CHOOCHOO BBQ has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
Barger-Q
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1479
peak 1479 · rated over 3 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2021-06-25
latest 2022-06-24
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 84%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
638.46
last 3 Master vs avg 638.46 (+0.00)
Walk rate
33%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±5.90
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 165.86 · weakest Brisket (150.38)
Road miles
47
mi across 3 mapped stops
Schedule strength
70%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1589)
Purse competed for
$27K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 3 state-championship entries
Master avg
638.46 / 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.
Barger-Q 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 146 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.
#4166 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1479
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#4205 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1511
No shared contest yet.
They've been 1511 at their best, 33 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-head#4209 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
Level with Barger-Q on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#4210 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#4169 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1479
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#4186 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1479
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 3 years before Barger-Q'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 | 167.3828 | 155.3944 | 161.88 | top 67% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.8000 | 157.6800 | 160.34 | top 79% |
| Pork | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 173.1084 | 159.3716 | 165.86 | top 61% |
| Brisket | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.6572 | 145.6000 | 150.38 | top 92% |
“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 (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1 yrs
2021-06-25 → 2022-06-24
Busiest season
2022
2 contests
Contests a season
1.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
TN
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
averages 165.86 · weakest Brisket (150.38)
Walk rate
33%
a top-10 call in 1 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 3 contests
Master average
638.46
out of 720 · 3 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
68
14–74 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
47
3 mapped stops
Schedule strength
1589
average field rating faced — tougher than 70% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$26,600
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 3 state-championship entries
Power rating
1479
peak 1479 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2021
- First tracked contest Blount County BBQ Bash
- First call Blount County BBQ Bash
- Career-best single call (Pork)173.1084 Blount County BBQ Bash
- Peak power rating (1492) Blount County BBQ Bash
- 2022
- Career-best overall score646.1372 Big BBQ Bash
- Most recent contest Big BBQ Bash
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -8.6 | Sevierville's Bloomin' BBQ & Bluegrass Festival | 2022-05-20 |
| -7.6 | Blount County BBQ Bash | 2021-06-25 |
| -5.1 | Big BBQ Bash | 2022-06-24 |
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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 83% | 89.7% | 89.1% |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 88% | 87.7% | 87.7% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-06-24 | Big BBQ Bash 🏅 Maryville, TN | 22 / 29 (646.1372) | 18 (162.8572) | 21 (160.5372) | 20 (165.0856) | 26 (157.6572) |
| 2022-05-20 | Sevierville's Bloomin' BBQ & Bluegrass Festival 🏅 Sevierville, TN | 27 / 30 (637.4516) | 18 (167.3828) | 26 (162.8000) | 28 (159.3716) | 27 (147.8972) |
| 2021-06-25 | Blount County BBQ Bash 🏅 Maryville, TN | 28 / 32 (631.7828) | 25 (155.3944) | 25 (157.6800) | 7 (173.1084) | 31 (145.6000) |