Announced themselves early
3rd
at their very first contest
Finished 3 at their very first tracked contest, Cambridge Rib Fest (GRILLING SERIES) ().
Incipient Phase BBQ
Incipient Phase BBQ is a competition barbecue team with 5 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2019 and 2022. Their best overall finish is 3rd at the Cambridge Rib Fest (GRILLING SERIES) ().
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1487
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 4
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
Jun 9, 2019
latest Jun 17, 2022 · 3 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podium
Overall top-10s
2
40% of 5 contests
Avg finish
top 70%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
60%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±8.21
spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 160.43 · weakest Pork (156.52)
Road miles
613
across 4 mapped stops · furthest 235 mi
Schedule strength
54%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1569)
Purse competed for
$15K
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 3 state-championship entries
Master avg
639.67 / 720
3 Master contests · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
306.80 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 0 GCs
These overall scores sit on different scales (Master 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.
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to Incipient Phase BBQ, each with one reason worth a look.
Incipient Phase BBQ has 4 rated contests, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 131 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#3,813 of the rated field
- Contests
- 9
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1487
0–1 in 1 shared contest (0% to Incipient Phase BBQ)
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Incipient Phase BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head#3,822 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1487
Careers of much the same size, 6 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#3,825 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1486
Level with Incipient Phase BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#3,816 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1487
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#3,827 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1486
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 3 years before Incipient Phase BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#3,843 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1505
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 3 years before Incipient Phase BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careersBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 163.4056 | 155.3828 | 158.39 | top 73% |
| Pork Ribs | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 165.1200 | 149.1428 | 160.43 | top 57% |
| Pork | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.2516 | 153.6572 | 156.52 | top 87% |
| Brisket | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 169.1200 | 155.9316 | 160.34 | top 56% |
“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 field size and state
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 3 | 0 | top 65% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 84% |
More numbers
Contests a season
1
across 5 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
WI
2 of 5 contests · 3 states in all
Contests visited
5
a different one every time
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
5 entries · 0 wins · 1 call
Opponents faced
113
finished ahead 36 times, behind 91
Longest layoff
1.2 yrs
Jun 9, 2019 → Sep 4, 2020
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20224 milestones
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score650.1484 Rose Festival 21st Annual KCBS BBQ Contest
- Career-best overall score650.1484 Rose Festival 21st Annual KCBS BBQ Contest
- Career-best single call (Brisket)169.1200 Rose Festival 21st Annual KCBS BBQ Contest
- Most recent contest Rose Festival 21st Annual KCBS BBQ Contest
20191 milestone
- Peak power rating (1503) Lake Country BBQ Cook-off (BACKYARD ONLY)
—4 milestones
- First tracked contest Cambridge Rib Fest (GRILLING SERIES)
- First call Cambridge Rib Fest (GRILLING SERIES)
- First overall top-10 Cambridge Rib Fest (GRILLING SERIES)
- First overall podium Cambridge Rib Fest (GRILLING SERIES)
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +3.3 | Lake Country BBQ Cook-off (BACKYARD ONLY) | Jun 9, 2019 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -7.9 | Route 66 Smoke Out | May 1, 2021 |
| -7.6 | Rose Festival 21st Annual KCBS BBQ Contest | Jun 17, 2022 |
| -1.4 | Smokin in the Bogs | Sep 4, 2020 |
Scores over time (% of a perfect score — tap a meat to add it)
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | — | 86% | 86% |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 88% | 90.3% | 90.3% |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 84% | 87.5% | 87.5% |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 68% | 88.7% | 88.7% |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 41% | 85.2% | 85.2% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 2022 | Rose Festival 21st Annual KCBS BBQ Contest 🏅 State Center, IA | 28 / 32 (650.1484) | 27 (163.4056) | 23 (163.9656) | 32 (153.6572) | 9 (169.1200) |
| May 1, 2021 | Route 66 Smoke Out 🏅 Dwight, IL | 37 / 44 (630.0916) | 38 (155.3828) | 19 (165.1200) | 41 (153.6572) | 36 (155.9316) |
| Sep 4, 2020 | Smokin in the Bogs 🏅 Warrens, WI | 19 / 28 (638.7660) | 25 (157.1200) | 11 (163.4172) | 19 (162.2516) | 16 (155.9772) |
| Jun 9, 2019 | Lake Country BBQ Cook-off (BACKYARD ONLY) | 9 / 22 (306.8000) | 7 (157.6572) | 16 (149.1428) | — | — |
| — | Cambridge Rib Fest (GRILLING SERIES) Cambridge, WI | 3 (309.6228) | — | 3 (160.5256) | — | — |