High-water mark
675.9772
career-best overall
93.9% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 675.9772 at GLBBQA Spring Fling — 93.9% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2026-04-17
Bay 5 BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1490
peak 1490 · rated over 3 contests ⓘ
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
2024-04-19
latest 2026-04-17
Best ToY finish
#927
Master 2026
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 69%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
668.50
last 3 Master vs avg 668.50 (+0.00)
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±5.88
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Brisket
avg 169.50 · weakest Chicken (165.31)
Road miles
44
mi across 4 mapped stops · furthest 33 mi
Schedule strength
58%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1573)
Purse competed for
$14K
listed at 4 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 3 state-championship entries
Master avg
668.50 / 720
3 Master contests · 0 GCs
Storylines (2 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
BooyaQ ahead in 100% of their meetings
BooyaQ has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
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.
Bay 5 BBQ 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 162 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.
#3632 of the rated field
- Contests
- 21
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 10%
- Peak
- 1490
0–3 in 3 shared contests (0% to Bay 5 BBQ)
These two have cooked 3 of the same contests — DAT'S BBQ ahead 3–0 — so there's a record behind this pairing and not just a matching number.
⚔ Head-to-head#3620 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#3651 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2017, 7 years before Bay 5 BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3654 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1503
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2023, 3 years before Bay 5 BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3661 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
Level with Bay 5 BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3641 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1490
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 7 years before Bay 5 BBQ'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 | 166.8572 | 163.3944 | 165.31 | top 77% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 173.1200 | 166.2628 | 169.13 | top 49% |
| Pork | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 172.5600 | 159.9772 | 165.89 | top 63% |
| Brisket | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 171.4172 | 167.4056 | 169.50 | top 49% |
“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 69% |
| Large (40+) | 2 | 0 | top 70% |
The story so far (17 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
2 yrs
2024-04-19 → 2026-04-17
Busiest season
2025
2 contests
Contests a season
1.3
across 3 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
MI
4 of 4 contests
Contests visited
3
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
4 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Brisket
averages 169.50 · weakest Chicken (165.31)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 2 of 4 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 4 contests
Master average
668.50
out of 720 · 3 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
93
41–97 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
44
4 mapped stops · furthest 33 mi
Schedule strength
1573
average field rating faced — tougher than 58% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$14,410
listed at 4 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 3 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
1.4 yrs
2024-04-19 → 2025-09-19
Power rating
1490
peak 1490 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2024
- First tracked contest GLBBQA Spring Fling
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score661.6000 GLBBQA Spring Fling
- Peak power rating (1496) GLBBQA Spring Fling
- 2025
- First call September Fest (ONE MEAT RIBS)
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)173.1200 September Fest (ONE MEAT RIBS)
- 2026
- Career-best overall score675.9772 GLBBQA Spring Fling
- Most recent contest GLBBQA Spring Fling
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -4.5 | September Fest | 2025-09-19 |
| -4 | GLBBQA Spring Fling | 2024-04-19 |
| -1.5 | GLBBQA Spring Fling | 2026-04-17 |
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)
Team of the Year rank by season
Season by season
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 67% | 93.9% | 93.9% |
| 2025 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 69% | 92.8% | 92.8% |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 73% | 91.9% | 91.9% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-17 | GLBBQA Spring Fling 🏅 Coldwater, MI | 32 / 48 (675.9772) | 38 (166.8572) | 25 (169.1544) | 14 (172.5600) | 28 (167.4056) |
| 2025-09-19 | September Fest 🏅 Coldwater, MI | 18 / 26 (667.9084) | 19 (163.3944) | 12 (167.9656) | 19 (165.1312) | 10 (171.4172) |
| 2025-09-19 | September Fest (ONE MEAT RIBS) Coldwater, MI | — | — | 5 (173.1200) | — | — |
| 2024-04-19 | GLBBQA Spring Fling 🏅 Charlotte, MI | 45 / 62 (661.6000) | 48 (165.6800) | 38 (166.2628) | 54 (159.9772) | 32 (169.6800) |
Career map (orange GC · green top-10 · grey the rest — tap a pin)
Team of the Year standings (rank per category by season — year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 ↗ | Master | #927 (60 pts) | #1010 (60 pts) | #1051 (60 pts) | #825 (115 pts) | #950 (60 pts) |
| 2025 ↗ | Master | #1050 (86 pts) | #1143 (81 pts) | #662 (280 pts) | #1124 (81 pts) | #901 (126 pts) |