High-water mark
689.7372
career-best overall
95.8% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 689.7372 at *2nd Annual Hudson Bay Heritage Days BBQ Cook Off — 95.8% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2018-08-18
The Original Northwest BBQ Company
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1500
peak 1514 · rated over 3 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2018-08-18
latest 2020-02-15
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 54%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
647.90
last 3 Master vs avg 647.90 (+0.00)
Walk rate
67%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±30.82
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 165.88 · weakest Brisket (154.80)
Road miles
170
mi across 3 mapped stops · furthest 170 mi
Schedule strength
14%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1520)
Purse competed for
$18K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
647.90 / 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.
Announced themselves early
3rd
at their very first contest
Finished 3 of 27 at their very first tracked contest, *2nd Annual Hudson Bay Heritage Days BBQ Cook Off (2018-08-18).
- 2018-08-18
- 27-team field
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.
The Original Northwest BBQ Company 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 121 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.
#3192 of the rated field
- Contests
- 21
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 19%
- Peak
- 1505
1–1 in 2 shared contests (50% to The Original Northwest BBQ Company)
2 contests in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team The Original Northwest BBQ Company has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head#3198 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1500
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#3205 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
Level with The Original Northwest BBQ Company on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3199 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2013, 5 years before The Original Northwest BBQ Company's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3189 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1508
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#3207 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1500
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 173.7372 | 155.9884 | 164.18 | top 55% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 172.5600 | 157.1084 | 165.88 | top 46% |
| Pork | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 169.1428 | 151.4056 | 163.04 | top 57% |
| Brisket | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 174.8572 | 144.4800 | 154.80 | top 66% |
“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 state / province
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| WA | 2 | 0 | top 50% |
| OR | 1 | 0 | top 63% |
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 63% |
| Medium (20–39) | 2 | 0 | top 50% |
The story so far (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1.5 yrs
2018-08-18 → 2020-02-15
Busiest season
2020
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 3 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
WA
2 of 3 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
3
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
3 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 165.88 · weakest Brisket (154.80)
Walk rate
67%
a top-10 call in 2 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
67%
2 of 3 contests
Master average
647.90
out of 720 · 3 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
54
33–34 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
170
3 mapped stops · furthest 170 mi
Schedule strength
1520
average field rating faced — tougher than 14% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$17,850
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Power rating
1500
peak 1514 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2018
- First tracked contest *2nd Annual Hudson Bay Heritage Days BBQ Cook Off
- First call *2nd Annual Hudson Bay Heritage Days BBQ Cook Off
- First overall top-10 *2nd Annual Hudson Bay Heritage Days BBQ Cook Off
- First overall podium *2nd Annual Hudson Bay Heritage Days BBQ Cook Off
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score689.7372 *2nd Annual Hudson Bay Heritage Days BBQ Cook Off
- Career-best overall score689.7372 *2nd Annual Hudson Bay Heritage Days BBQ Cook Off
- Career-best single call (Brisket)174.8572 *2nd Annual Hudson Bay Heritage Days BBQ Cook Off
- Peak power rating (1514) *2nd Annual Hudson Bay Heritage Days BBQ Cook Off
- 2020
- Most recent contest Albany Bacon Championship
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +14.2 | *2nd Annual Hudson Bay Heritage Days BBQ Cook Off | 2018-08-18 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -12.2 | 3rd Annual Hudson Bay Heritage Days BBQ Cookoff | 2019-08-17 |
| -1.9 | Albany Bacon Championship | 2020-02-15 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 63% | 88.6% | 88.6% |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 89% | 85.6% | 85.6% |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 11% | 95.8% | 95.8% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-02-15 | Albany Bacon Championship 🏅 Albany, OR | 10 / 16 (637.5884) | 11 (155.9884) | 6 (167.9772) | 6 (169.1428) | 15 (144.4800) |
| 2019-08-17 | 3rd Annual Hudson Bay Heritage Days BBQ Cookoff 🏅 DuPont, WA | 24 / 27 (616.3884) | 19 (162.8116) | 21 (157.1084) | 24 (151.4056) | 25 (145.0628) |
| 2018-08-18 | *2nd Annual Hudson Bay Heritage Days BBQ Cook Off DuPont, WA | 3 / 27 (689.7372) | 7 (173.7372) | 6 (172.5600) | 12 (168.5828) | 3 (174.8572) |