The heartbreaker
2.3316
points from the title
Came within 2.3316 points of the Grand Championship at Cedar Fest BBQ Cook Off (2026-04-10).
Si Quema BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1531
peak 1531 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2026-04-10
latest 2026-07-24
Grand champs
0
1 reserve
Category wins
3
3 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 7%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
1 🔥
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Top-10 streak
2
and counting
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 177.13 · weakest Chicken (172.84)
Road miles
863
mi across 2 mapped stops · furthest 863 mi
Purse competed for
$26K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
699.37 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs
Still inside their first twelve months: see what a first season usually looks like.
Storylines (5 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.
Perfect scores on the board
1
perfect 180s
1 perfect 180 in the data — every judge at the table handing back a nine, all in chicken.
- Chicken ×1
A multi-meat day
1
contests with 2+ category wins
They've won two or more meats on the same day 1 time — the best of them 2 category wins at Albany County Fair Smokin' BBQ Cook-Off (2026-07-24).
- Pork Ribs 1st
- Brisket 1st
High-water mark
700.4912
career-best overall
97.3% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 700.4912 at Cedar Fest BBQ Cook Off — 97.3% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2026-04-10
Announced themselves early
2nd
at their very first contest
Finished 2 of 41 at their very first tracked contest, Cedar Fest BBQ Cook Off (2026-04-10).
- 2026-04-10
- 41-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.
Si Quema BBQ 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 76 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.
#2182 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1531
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2185 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1531
No shared contest yet.
Level with Si Quema BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2168 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1532
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2020, 6 years before Si Quema BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#2173 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1532
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2015, 11 years before Si Quema BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2166 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1532
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 7 years before Si Quema BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2172 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 29%
- Peak
- 1532
No shared contest yet.
7 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Si Quema BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 180.0000 🔥 | 165.6800 | 172.84 | top 48% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 178.8572 | 175.4056 | 177.13 | top 6% |
| Pork | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 174.2628 | 173.1200 | 173.69 | top 19% |
| Brisket | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 179.4400 | 171.9656 | 175.70 | top 24% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WY | 1 | 0 | top 9% |
| TX | 1 | 0 | top 5% |
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 9% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 5% |
The story so far (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0.3 yrs
2026-04-10 → 2026-07-24
Busiest season
2026
2 contests
Cooks most in
WY
1 of 2 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 1 win · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 177.13 · weakest Chicken (172.84)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 2 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
100%
2 of 2 contests
Best top-10 run
2
straight contests — and still running
Master average
699.37
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Perfect 180s
1
every judge at the table handing back a nine
Opponents faced
78
73–5 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
863
2 mapped stops · furthest 863 mi
Purse competed for
$25,500
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Power rating
1531
peak 1531 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2026
- First tracked contest Cedar Fest BBQ Cook Off
- First call Cedar Fest BBQ Cook Off
- First category win (Chicken) Cedar Fest BBQ Cook Off
- First overall top-10 Cedar Fest BBQ Cook Off
- First overall podium Cedar Fest BBQ Cook Off
- First Reserve Championship Cedar Fest BBQ Cook Off
- First perfect 180 (Chicken) Cedar Fest BBQ Cook Off
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score700.4912 Cedar Fest BBQ Cook Off
- Career-best overall score700.4912 Cedar Fest BBQ Cook Off
- First multi-meat day Albany County Fair Smokin' BBQ Cook-Off
- Most recent contest Albany County Fair Smokin' BBQ Cook-Off
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 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 100% | top 7% | 97.3% | 97.1% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-24 | Albany County Fair Smokin' BBQ Cook-Off 🏅 Laramie, WY | 3 / 32 (698.2400) | 30 (165.6800) | 1 (178.8572) | 5 (174.2628) | 1 (179.4400) |
| 2026-04-10 | Cedar Fest BBQ Cook Off 🏅 Cedar Park, TX | 2 / 41 (700.4912) | 1 (180.0000) | 4 (175.4056) | 9 (173.1200) | 18 (171.9656) |