High-water mark
675.9084
career-best overall
93.9% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 675.9084 at Shotgun Fred BBQ Showdown — 93.9% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2019-02-15
BBQ Guru
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1505
peak 1505 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2015-07-04
latest 2019-02-15
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 54%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 173.14 · weakest Brisket (161.98)
Road miles
5,501
mi across 2 mapped stops · furthest 5501 mi
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Master avg
665.08 / 720
2 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.
The long haul
5,501
road miles between contests
Contest to contest, they've covered roughly 5,501 miles across 2 mapped stops — the longest single trip being 5,501 miles to Prime UVE Invitational Barbecue Championship.
- 2 mapped stops
- furthest 5,501 mi
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.
BBQ Guru 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 107 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.
#3005 of the rated field
- Contests
- 13
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 15%
- Peak
- 1515
1–0 in 1 shared contest (100% to BBQ Guru)
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team BBQ Guru has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head#3015 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1508
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3010 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
Level with BBQ Guru on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3001 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2985 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1513
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3007 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1508
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2013, 6 years before BBQ Guru'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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 173.1544 | 173.1200 | 173.14 | top 28% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 173.1084 | 153.1200 | 163.11 | top 67% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 168.0000 | 165.7028 | 166.85 | top 51% |
| Brisket | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 163.9772 | 159.9772 | 161.98 | top 68% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 60% |
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 48% |
The story so far (15 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
3.6 yrs
2015-07-04 → 2019-02-15
Busiest season
2019
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
TX
1 of 2 contests
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 2 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 173.14 · weakest Brisket (161.98)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 2 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
50%
1 of 2 contests
Master average
665.08
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
46
23–23 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
5,501
2 mapped stops · furthest 5,501 mi
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
3.6 yrs
2015-07-04 → 2019-02-15
Power rating
1505
peak 1505 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2015
- First tracked contest Prime UVE Invitational Barbecue Championship
- First call Prime UVE Invitational Barbecue Championship
- First overall top-10 Prime UVE Invitational Barbecue Championship
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score654.2516 Prime UVE Invitational Barbecue Championship
- Career-best single call (Chicken)173.1544 Prime UVE Invitational Barbecue Championship
- 2019
- Career-best overall score675.9084 Shotgun Fred BBQ Showdown
- Most recent contest Shotgun Fred BBQ Showdown
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 48% | 93.9% | 93.9% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 60% | 90.9% | 90.9% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-02-15 | Shotgun Fred BBQ Showdown 🏅 Huntsville, TX | 16 / 33 (675.9084) | 10 (173.1200) | 11 (173.1084) | 18 (165.7028) | 25 (163.9772) |
| 2015-07-04 | Prime UVE Invitational Barbecue Championship unrated Gaiarine Italy, | 9 / 15 (654.2516) | 4 (173.1544) | 15 (153.1200) | 7 (168.0000) | 9 (159.9772) |