High-water mark
663.3024
career-best overall
92.1% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 663.3024 at The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ — 92.1% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2019-05-03
Well Marinated
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1494
peak 1494 · rated over 3 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2015-05-01
latest 2019-05-03
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 63%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
650.69
last 3 Master vs avg 650.69 (+0.00)
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±12.28
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 167.20 · weakest Pork Ribs (158.24)
Road miles
0
mi across 3 mapped stops
Schedule strength
25%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1534)
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Master avg
650.69 / 720
3 Master contests · 0 GCs
Storylines (3 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
HOT COLE'S BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings
HOT COLE'S BBQ has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
The comeback
3 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 3 years, then back at The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ (2019-05-03).
- last seen 2016-05-06
- back 2019-05-03
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.
Well Marinated 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 123 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.
#3424 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1510
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#3450 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1494
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 6 years after Well Marinated did, first appearing in 2021.
⚔ Head-to-head#3446 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1494
No shared contest yet.
Level with Well Marinated on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3422 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#3443 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1494
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2015, 4 years before Well Marinated's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3432 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2013, 6 years before Well Marinated'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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.9772 | 163.9428 | 166.45 | top 49% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.3828 | 152.5260 | 158.24 | top 67% |
| Pork | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171.4056 | 160.5028 | 167.20 | top 49% |
| Brisket | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164.5372 | 154.7772 | 158.80 | top 64% |
“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.
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ | 3 | 30 | 0 | top 63% | 2019-05-03 |
The story so far (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
4 yrs
2015-05-01 → 2019-05-03
Busiest season
2019
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 3 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
AL
3 of 3 contests
Contests visited
1
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
3 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 167.20 · weakest Pork Ribs (158.24)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 3 contests
Master average
650.69
out of 720 · 3 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
191
105–144 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
0
3 mapped stops
Schedule strength
1534
average field rating faced — tougher than 25% of rated contests
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
3 yrs
2016-05-06 → 2019-05-03
Power rating
1494
peak 1494 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2015
- First tracked contest The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score654.7204 The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ
- Peak power rating (1499) The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ
- 2019
- Career-best overall score663.3024 The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ
- Career-best single call (Pork)171.4056 The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ
- Most recent contest The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +2.2 | The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ | 2019-05-03 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -6.4 | The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ | 2016-05-06 |
| -1.4 | The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ | 2015-05-01 |
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 | 0% | top 56% | 92.1% | 92.1% |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 76% | 88.1% | 88.1% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 59% | 90.9% | 90.9% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-05-03 | The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ 🏅 Huntsville, AL | 30 / 54 (663.3024) | 24 (167.4400) | 21 (167.3828) | 13 (171.4056) | 38 (157.0740) |
| 2016-05-06 | The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ Huntsville, AL | 51 / 67 (634.0344) | 40 (163.9428) | 49 (154.8116) | 53 (160.5028) | 50 (154.7772) |
| 2015-05-01 | The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ Huntsville, AL | 37 / 63 (654.7204) | 27 (167.9772) | 56 (152.5260) | 27 (169.6800) | 30 (164.5372) |