High-water mark
680.4912
career-best overall
94.5% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 680.4912 at SC Festival of Discovery — 94.5% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2019-07-12
No Name BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1528
peak 1528 · rated over 3 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2019-07-12
latest 2020-01-24
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
1
2 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 29%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
676.29
last 3 Master vs avg 676.29 (+0.00)
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±3.79
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 173.52 · weakest Pork Ribs (165.49)
Road miles
718
mi across 3 mapped stops · furthest 429 mi
Schedule strength
61%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1577)
Purse competed for
$62K
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 3 state-championship entries
Master avg
676.29 / 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
Smoke Central BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings
Smoke Central BBQ 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.
No Name 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 74 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.
#2270 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 2
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1528
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#2250 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1542
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 5 years after No Name BBQ did, first appearing in 2024.
⚔ Head-to-head#2264 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 100%
- Peak
- 1528
No shared contest yet.
5 straight overall top-10s says this rating is a moving target.
⚔ Head-to-head#2260 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 71%
- Peak
- 1528
No shared contest yet.
Level with No Name BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2268 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1528
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2014, 6 years before No Name BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2254 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1538
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2014, 6 years before No Name 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 173.7028 | 165.6800 | 169.50 | top 37% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171.9656 | 161.6800 | 165.49 | top 57% |
| Pork | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 177.7372 | 169.7144 | 173.52 | top 11% |
| Brisket | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.6800 | 165.1084 | 167.78 | top 32% |
“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.
The story so far (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0.5 yrs
2019-07-12 → 2020-01-24
Busiest season
2019
2 contests
Contests a season
1.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
FL
1 of 3 contests · 3 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
averages 173.52 · weakest Pork Ribs (165.49)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 3 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 3 contests
Master average
676.29
out of 720 · 3 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
205
163–58 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
718
3 mapped stops · furthest 429 mi
Schedule strength
1577
average field rating faced — tougher than 61% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$62,000
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 3 state-championship entries
Power rating
1528
peak 1528 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2019
- First tracked contest SC Festival of Discovery
- First call SC Festival of Discovery
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score680.4912 SC Festival of Discovery
- Career-best overall score680.4912 SC Festival of Discovery
- 2020
- First category win (Pork) Lakeland Pig Festival
- Career-best single call (Pork)177.7372 Lakeland Pig Festival
- Peak power rating (1528) Lakeland Pig Festival
- Most recent contest Lakeland Pig Festival
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +15.3 | SC Festival of Discovery | 2019-07-12 |
| +6.8 | Pigs & Pedals | 2019-08-02 |
| +5.9 | Lakeland Pig Festival | 2020-01-24 |
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 | 0 | 1 | 100% | top 32% | 94% | 94% |
| 2019 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 28% | 94.5% | 93.9% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-01-24 | Lakeland Pig Festival 🏅 Lakeland, FL | 17 / 53 (677.0740) | 26 (169.1084) | 42 (161.6800) | 1 (177.7372) | 17 (168.5484) |
| 2019-08-02 | Pigs & Pedals 🏅 Asheboro, NC | 17 / 40 (671.3028) | 21 (165.6800) | 28 (162.8228) | 3 (173.1200) | 12 (169.6800) |
| 2019-07-12 | SC Festival of Discovery 🏅 Greenwood, SC | 11 / 83 (680.4912) | 9 (173.7028) | 17 (171.9656) | 19 (169.7144) | 29 (165.1084) |