High-water mark
673.0628
career-best overall
93.5% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 673.0628 at 26th Annual Colorado BBQ Challenge — 93.5% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2019-06-14
SPECIAL INGREDIENT
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1509
peak 1509 · rated over 3 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2017-08-04
latest 2019-06-14
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 52%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
660.45
last 3 Master vs avg 660.45 (+0.00)
Walk rate
67%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±9.66
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 171.59 · weakest Brisket (161.66)
Road miles
229
mi across 3 mapped stops · furthest 102 mi
Schedule strength
68%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1586)
Purse competed for
$16K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Master avg
660.45 / 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
Backdraft BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings
Backdraft 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.
SPECIAL INGREDIENT 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 96 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.
#2841 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1515
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#2857 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1509
No shared contest yet.
Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2017.
⚔ Head-to-head#2843 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1519
No shared contest yet.
Level with SPECIAL INGREDIENT on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2852 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1509
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 6 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#2854 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1509
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 6 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#2847 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1509
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2016, 3 years before SPECIAL INGREDIENT'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 | 175.4056 | 166.2516 | 171.59 | top 31% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 171.4172 | 153.0744 | 164.17 | top 46% |
| Pork | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.9656 | 159.4060 | 163.03 | top 57% |
| Brisket | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.8228 | 155.9316 | 161.66 | top 60% |
“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 56% |
| Large (40+) | 2 | 0 | top 49% |
The story so far (17 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1.9 yrs
2017-08-04 → 2019-06-14
Busiest season
2019
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 3 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
CO
3 of 3 contests
Contests visited
3
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
3 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 171.59 · weakest Brisket (161.66)
Walk rate
67%
a top-10 call in 2 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 3 contests
Master average
660.45
out of 720 · 3 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
105
69–66 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
229
3 mapped stops · furthest 102 mi
Schedule strength
1586
average field rating faced — tougher than 68% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$15,750
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
1.4 yrs
2018-01-05 → 2019-06-14
Power rating
1509
peak 1509 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2017
- First tracked contest San Luis Valley Beat the Heat BBQ
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score649.6008 San Luis Valley Beat the Heat BBQ
- 2018
- First call National Western BBQ Throwdown
- Career-best single call (Chicken)175.4056 National Western BBQ Throwdown
- 2019
- Career-best overall score673.0628 26th Annual Colorado BBQ Challenge
- Peak power rating (1509) 26th Annual Colorado BBQ Challenge
- Most recent contest 26th Annual Colorado BBQ Challenge
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +9.4 | 26th Annual Colorado BBQ Challenge | 2019-06-14 |
| +2.4 | National Western BBQ Throwdown | 2018-01-05 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -2.6 | San Luis Valley Beat the Heat BBQ | 2017-08-04 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 33% | 93.5% | 93.5% |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 56% | 91.5% | 91.5% |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 66% | 90.2% | 90.2% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-06-14 | 26th Annual Colorado BBQ Challenge 🏅 Frisco, CO | 18 / 55 (673.0628) | 11 (173.1084) | 7 (171.4172) | 29 (161.7144) | 20 (166.8228) |
| 2018-01-05 | National Western BBQ Throwdown Denver, CO | 22 / 39 (658.6856) | 5 (175.4056) | 34 (153.0744) | 15 (167.9656) | 23 (162.2400) |
| 2017-08-04 | San Luis Valley Beat the Heat BBQ Alamosa, CO | 29 / 44 (649.6008) | 26 (166.2516) | 17 (168.0116) | 35 (159.4060) | 37 (155.9316) |