#3712 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headDons BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1489
peak 1489 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2026-03-20
latest 2026-03-20
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 100%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 163.42 · weakest Pork Ribs (155.69)
Road miles
0
mi across 3 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$10K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Master avg
488.49 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Still inside their first twelve months: see what a first season usually looks like.
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Dons BBQ has 1 rated contest — 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 151 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.
#3730 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
Level with Dons BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3698 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1500
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2023, 3 years before Dons BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3697 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1489
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2013, 13 years before Dons BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3726 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1489
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 5 years before Dons BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3733 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1511
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 8 years before Dons 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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.2400 | 154.2172 | 158.23 | top 94% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.8344 | 148.5372 | 155.69 | top 89% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.4172 | 163.4172 | 163.42 | top 88% |
| Brisket | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
“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 (14 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0 yrs
2026-03-20 → 2026-03-20
Busiest season
2026
3 contests
Cooks most in
TN
3 of 3 contests
Contests visited
1
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 163.42 · weakest Pork Ribs (155.69)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 3 contests
Master average
488.49
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
176
0–176 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
0
3 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$10,000
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Power rating
1489
peak 1489 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2026
- First tracked contest Smoke on the Shores BBQ Championship (ONE MEAT RIBS)
- Career-best overall score488.4916 Smoke on the Shores BBQ Championship
- Career-best single call (Pork)163.4172 Smoke on the Shores BBQ Championship
- Most recent contest Smoke on the Shores BBQ Championship (ONE MEAT CHICKEN)
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 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 100% | 67.8% | 67.8% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-20 | Smoke on the Shores BBQ Championship (ONE MEAT CHICKEN) Lebanon, TN | — | 70 (154.2172) | — | — | — |
| 2026-03-20 | Smoke on the Shores BBQ Championship 🏅 Lebanon, TN | 125 / 125 (488.4916) | 112 (162.2400) | 102 (162.8344) | 110 (163.4172) | — |
| 2026-03-20 | Smoke on the Shores BBQ Championship (ONE MEAT RIBS) Lebanon, TN | — | — | 84 (148.5372) | — | — |