#3620 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headItalian's Steak team
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1490
peak 1490 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2025-03-29
latest 2026-04-11
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 71%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 171.15 · weakest Pork Ribs (159.42)
Road miles
47
mi across 2 mapped stops
Master avg
658.59 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs
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.
Italian's Steak team 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 160 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.
#3651 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2017, 8 years before Italian's Steak team'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 Italian's Steak team's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3618 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1491
No shared contest yet.
Level with Italian's Steak team 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 Italian's Steak team's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3639 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 2018, 8 years before Italian's Steak team'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 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 177.7600 | 164.5484 | 171.15 | top 44% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.7144 | 157.1200 | 159.42 | top 78% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.1772 | 157.1428 | 163.16 | top 74% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.1316 | 164.5828 | 164.86 | top 55% |
“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 70% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 71% |
The story so far (13 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1 yrs
2025-03-29 → 2026-04-11
Busiest season
2026
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 171.15 · weakest Pork Ribs (159.42)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 1 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 2 contests
Master average
658.59
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
53
21–49 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
47
2 mapped stops
Longest layoff
1 yrs
2025-03-29 → 2026-04-11
Power rating
1490
peak 1490 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2025
- First tracked contest BBQ Expo Master's Challenge
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score660.0228 BBQ Expo Master's Challenge
- Career-best overall score660.0228 BBQ Expo Master's Challenge
- 2026
- First call BBQ Expo Master's Challenge
- Career-best single call (Chicken)177.7600 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 | 100% | top 71% | 91.3% | 91.3% |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 70% | 91.7% | 91.7% |
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 | 30 / 42 (657.1544) | 2 (177.7600) | 33 (157.1200) | 37 (157.1428) | 22 (165.1316) |
| 2025-03-29 | BBQ Expo Master's Challenge Brescia, 25125 | 21 / 30 (660.0228) | 25 (164.5484) | 23 (161.7144) | 18 (169.1772) | 17 (164.5828) |