The metronome
±2.03%
swing around their own average
Their overall lands within ±2.03% of a perfect score of their own average — whatever the field, you know roughly what they'll turn in.
- averages 91.3% of a perfect score
- 8 contests
Tasty Critters
Tasty Critters is a competition barbecue team with 8 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2019 and 2020. Their best overall finish is 6th of 39 at the High on the Hog Festival (2019).
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1503
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 3
Contests
8
in the data
First seen
Apr 12, 2019
latest Jun 19, 2020 · 1.2 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
1
2 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
13% of 8 contests
Avg finish
top 68%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
38%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 172.84 · weakest Brisket (159.42)
Road miles
682
across 8 mapped stops · furthest 421 mi
Schedule strength
56%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1571)
Purse competed for
$26K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 3 state-championship entries
Master avg
654.70 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
329.34 / 360
2 Backyard contests · 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 Tasty Critters, each with one reason worth a look.
Tasty Critters has 3 rated contests, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 115 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#3,095 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1514
Fewer contests behind them than Tasty Critters has cooked, 5 to 8, which makes theirs the less settled rating of the two.
⚔ Compare careers#3,083 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1521
They turned up 5 years after Tasty Critters did, first appearing in 2024.
⚔ Compare careers#3,102 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1511
Level with Tasty Critters on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#3,112 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1506
Fewer contests behind them than Tasty Critters has cooked, 5 to 8, which makes theirs the less settled rating of the two.
⚔ Compare careers#3,097 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1507
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 3 years before Tasty Critters's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#3,123 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1503
Their last contest in the data was back in 2016, 4 years before Tasty Critters'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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.8572 | 152.4800 | 159.52 | top 75% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 177.7028 | 161.7144 | 168.69 | top 46% |
| Pork | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 176 | 169.6800 | 172.84 | top 19% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.4172 | 159.4172 | 159.42 | top 65% |
“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
More numbers
Busiest season
2019
2 contests
Contests a season
1.3
across 6 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
TN
5 of 8 contests · 3 states in all
Contests visited
3
a different one every time
Opponents faced
146
finished ahead 71 times, behind 92
Longest layoff
1.2 yrs
Apr 19, 2019 → Jun 19, 2020
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20202 milestones
- Career-best overall score654.6972 Ozarks BBQ Fest
- Most recent contest Ozarks BBQ Fest
20194 milestones
- First overall top-10 High on the Hog Festival
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score338.2172 High on the Hog Festival
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)177.7028 High on the Hog Festival
- Peak power rating (1505) High on the Hog Festival
20162 milestones
- First call Jack Daniel's World Championship Shade Tree Contest (BACKYARD)
- First category win (Pork) Jack Daniel's World Championship Shade Tree Contest (BACKYARD)
20151 milestone
- First tracked contest Cotton Pickin' BBQ Cookoff
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +14.4 | High on the Hog Festival | Apr 19, 2019 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -9.5 | Smoke on the Falls | Apr 12, 2019 |
| -2 | Ozarks BBQ Fest | Jun 19, 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 65% | 90.9% | 90.9% |
| 2019 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 50% | top 69% | 93.9% | 91.5% |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2016 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 50% | — | — | — |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 2020 | Ozarks BBQ Fest 🏅 Springfield, MO | 17 / 26 (654.6972) | 25 (152.4800) | 4 (173.1200) | 9 (169.6800) | 17 (159.4172) |
| Apr 19, 2019 | High on the Hog Festival 🏅 Winchester, TN | 6 / 39 (338.2172) | 12 (160.5144) | 2 (177.7028) | — | — |
| Apr 12, 2019 | Smoke on the Falls 🏅 Gadsden, AL | 37 / 30 (320.4572) | 38 (158.2172) | 30 (162.2400) | — | — |
| Apr 20, 2018 | High on the Hog Festival Winchester, TN | — | — | — | — | — |
| Apr 21, 2017 | High on the Hog Festival Winchester, TN | — | — | — | — | — |
| Oct 21, 2016 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Shade Tree Contest (BACKYARD) Lynchburg, TN | — | 19 (166.8572) | 26 (161.7144) | 1 (176) | — |
| Apr 15, 2016 | High on the Hog Festival Winchester, TN | — | — | — | — | — |
| May 15, 2015 | Cotton Pickin' BBQ Cookoff Hartselle, AL | — | — | — | — | — |