High-water mark
674.2632
career-best overall
93.6% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 674.2632 at Cherokee Strip BBQ & Chili Cook-Off — 93.6% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2021-09-10
TC BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1512
peak 1512 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2019-05-10
latest 2021-09-10
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 38%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 168.56 · weakest Pork Ribs (159.16)
Road miles
645
mi across 2 mapped stops · furthest 645 mi
Purse competed for
$27K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
674.26 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
311.44 / 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.
TC BBQ 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.
#2756 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1521
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2720 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1524
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 5 years after TC BBQ did, first appearing in 2024.
⚔ Head-to-head#2719 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1513
No shared contest yet.
Level with TC BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2749 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1515
No shared contest yet.
6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where TC BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head#2759 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1522
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2735 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1512
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 169.7144 | 162.8344 | 166.27 | top 23% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.7144 | 148.6060 | 159.16 | top 53% |
| Pork | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 168.5600 | 168.5600 | 168.56 | top 40% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2744 | 166.2744 | 166.27 | top 48% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 48% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 28% |
The story so far (17 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
2.3 yrs
2019-05-10 → 2021-09-10
Busiest season
2021
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
OK
1 of 2 contests
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 2 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 168.56 · weakest Pork Ribs (159.16)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 2 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 2 contests
Master average
674.26
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Backyard average
311.44
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
117
75–41 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
645
2 mapped stops · furthest 645 mi
Purse competed for
$27,250
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
2.3 yrs
2019-05-10 → 2021-09-10
Power rating
1512
peak 1512 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2019
- First tracked contest Minnesota in May
- First call Minnesota in May
- 2021
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score674.2632 Cherokee Strip BBQ & Chili Cook-Off
- Career-best overall score674.2632 Cherokee Strip BBQ & Chili Cook-Off
- Career-best single call (Chicken)169.7144 Cherokee Strip BBQ & Chili Cook-Off
- Most recent contest Cherokee Strip BBQ & Chili Cook-Off
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 48% | 93.6% | 93.6% |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 28% | 86.5% | 86.5% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-09-10 | Cherokee Strip BBQ & Chili Cook-Off 🏅 Ponca City, OK | 12 / 25 (674.2632) | 8 (169.7144) | 15 (169.7144) | 10 (168.5600) | 12 (166.2744) |
| 2019-05-10 | Minnesota in May 🏅 | 16 / 57 (311.4404) | 8 (162.8344) | 26 (148.6060) | — | — |