High-water mark
666.8000
career-best overall
92.6% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 666.8000 at BBQ Expo Master's Challenge — 92.6% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2026-04-11
Rubbaribs
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1490
peak 1490 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
2022-06-18
latest 2026-04-11
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 75%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 165.69 · weakest Brisket (149.71)
Road miles
91
mi across 4 mapped stops
Master avg
637.64 / 720
2 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.
The comeback
2 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 2 years, then back at BBQ Expo Master's Challenge (2026-04-11).
- last seen 2024-04-06
- back 2026-04-11
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.
Rubbaribs 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 157 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.
#3666 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1504
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, 5 years before Rubbaribs'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 Rubbaribs'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 Rubbaribs on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3683 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1489
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 7 years before Rubbaribs's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3645 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1510
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 8 years before Rubbaribs'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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 174.2628 | 157.1200 | 165.69 | top 59% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.2628 | 152.5488 | 160.96 | top 67% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.8456 | 154.8228 | 160.83 | top 73% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.4288 | 143.9888 | 149.71 | top 80% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 93% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 57% |
The story so far (13 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
3.8 yrs
2022-06-18 → 2026-04-11
Busiest season
2024
2 contests
Contests a season
1.3
across 3 seasons in the data
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
4 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 165.69 · weakest Brisket (149.71)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 4 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 4 contests
Master average
637.64
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
53
19–36 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
91
4 mapped stops
Longest layoff
2 yrs
2024-04-06 → 2026-04-11
Power rating
1490
peak 1490 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2022
- First tracked contest The War of Barbeque
- 2026
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score666.8000 BBQ Expo Master's Challenge
- Career-best overall score666.8000 BBQ Expo Master's Challenge
- Career-best single call (Chicken)174.2628 BBQ Expo Master's Challenge
- Most recent contest BBQ Expo Master's Challenge
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 57% | 92.6% | 92.6% |
| 2024 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 93% | 84.5% | 84.5% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-11 | BBQ Expo Master's Challenge PARMA, 43126 | 24 / 42 (666.8000) | 16 (174.2628) | 12 (170.2628) | 22 (166.8456) | 31 (155.4288) |
| 2024-04-06 | "Smokin' Ribs Showdown" (ONE MEAT RIBS) #2 Brescia, 25125 | — | — | 18 (160.5144) | — | — |
| 2024-04-06 | "Smokin' Ribs Showdown" (ONE MEAT RIBS) #1 Brescia, 25125 | — | — | 22 (160.5256) | — | — |
| 2022-06-18 | The War of Barbeque Isola della Scala (VR), 300257 | 14 / 15 (608.4804) | 12 (157.1200) | 14 (152.5488) | 14 (154.8228) | 13 (143.9888) |