BBQ4FUN

At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)

Power ranking

#6174

of 6,413 rated · rankings

Rating

1419

peak 1419 · rated over 20 contests ⓘ

Contests

in the data

First seen

2017-07-08

latest 2026-07-18

Best ToY finish

#635

Master 2019

Grand champs

0 reserve

Category wins

4 podiums

Overall top-10s

of 23 contests

Avg finish

top 78%

overall standings

Best overall

677.5656 / 720

Master · Open Barbecue Championship

Perfect 180s

Current form

660.91 ▲

last 5 Master vs avg 641.84 (+19.06)

Walk rate

70%

contests with a top-10 call

Best single call

177.1544

Brisket · Muehlviertler BBQ Festival

Consistency

±16.89

std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)

Strongest meat

Chicken

avg 164.65 · weakest Brisket (156.35)

Road miles

2,028

mi across 23 mapped stops

Schedule strength

37%

of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1548)

Master avg

641.84 / 720

20 Master contests · 0 GCs

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Storylines (11 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.

They almost always walk

70% of contests with a top-10 call

A call in 16 of 23 contests

A top-10 category call in 70% of their 23 contests — they get to the stage more often than not.

High-water mark

677.5656 career-best overall

94.1% of a perfect 720

Their best day on record: 677.5656 at Open Barbecue Championship — 94.1% of a perfect 720.

Master
2026-07-18

The one to beat

3× one call ahead of them

Roast a Piece has finished one call ahead of BBQ4FUN 3 times — their closest competition in the data.

A tough matchup

17–0 behind in the head-to-head

SCHLUCHTENGRILLER BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings

SCHLUCHTENGRILLER BBQ has come out ahead in 17 of their 17 shared contests.

The weak link

−8.3 points behind their best meat

Brisket is where the weekend gets away from them — it averages 8.29 points below their chicken, and turns into a call 24% of the time against 29%.

Brisket avg 156.35
Chicken avg 164.65
5 calls in 21 entries

A strong matchup

4–0 ahead in the head-to-head

Ahead in 100% of their meetings

They've finished ahead of Smokermaker in 4 of their 4 shared contests.

The comeback

3.8 yrs off the trail, then back

Off the trail for 3.8 years, then back at Muehlviertler BBQ Festival (ONE MEAT CHICKEN) (2024-05-18).

last seen 2020-07-25
back 2024-05-18

Chicken nemesis

15 of 18 shared chicken entries lost

SCHLUCHTENGRILLER BBQ ahead 83% of the time

Even in their strongest meat, SCHLUCHTENGRILLER BBQ has out-cooked them in 15 of 18 shared chicken entries.

Looking over their shoulder

2× one call behind them

Roast a Piece has landed one call behind them 2 times.

A July team

Top 67% average finish in July

Something about July: average finish in the top 67% across 6 contests, versus top 78% the rest of the year.

6 July contests
top 78% the rest of the year

The metronome

±2.35% swing around their own average

Their overall lands within ±2.35% of a perfect score of their own average — whatever the field, you know roughly what they'll turn in.

averages 89.1% of a perfect score
23 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.

25 rated teams sit within a point of this rating, so a place on this list means the numbers match — no more than that.

FLYING ACES BBQ

#6170 of the rated field

1419 ▲ 0 power rating

Contests: 22
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 5%
Peak: 1419

No shared contest yet.

This is the highest they've ever been rated, 22 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.

rated over 22 contests
last seen 2022-06-11

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HIDDEN BOOGER BBQ

#6176 of the rated field

1419 ▼ 0 power rating

Contests: 23
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 0%
Peak: 1419

No shared contest yet.

Careers of much the same size, 23 contests to 23, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.

rated over 23 contests
last seen 2025-11-05

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DIABLOS BARBEQUE

#6171 of the rated field

1419 ▲ 0 power rating

Contests: 24
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 4%
Peak: 1419

No shared contest yet.

Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 5 years before BBQ4FUN's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.

rated over 24 contests

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Brothers BBQ

#6177 of the rated field

1418 ▼ 0 power rating

Contests: 14
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 0%
Peak: 1418

No shared contest yet.

14 contests and no Grand Championship yet.

rated over 14 contests
last seen 2026-03-21

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Mountain Grillas

#6175 of the rated field

1419 ▼ 0 power rating

Contests: 10
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 0%
Peak: 1419

No shared contest yet.

Level with BBQ4FUN on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.

rated over 10 contests
last seen 2019-10-18

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LOCOMOTIVE #1

#6173 of the rated field

1419 ▼ 0 power rating

Contests: 9
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 0%
Peak: 1419

No shared contest yet.

This is the highest they've ever been rated, 9 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.

rated over 9 contests
last seen 2025-08-15

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Familiar foes (most-met opponents in overall standings — one meeting per contest)

Opponent	Meetings	Ahead	Behind	Win rate
SCHLUCHTENGRILLER BBQ	17	0	17	0%	⚔ compare
COOKLOUNGE BBQ	16	1	15	6%	⚔ compare
EGGHEAD-BARBECUE	15	2	13	13%	⚔ compare
Westside BBQ	14	1	13	7%	⚔ compare
White Squirrel BBQ	14	0	14	0%	⚔ compare
Knockstone BBQ Team Austria	13	0	13	0%	⚔ compare
OMERTA BBQ	12	1	11	8%	⚔ compare
BALDICUE	12	0	12	0%	⚔ compare
SAUWALD BBQ	11	4	7	36%	⚔ compare
GRILLSPITZ BBQ HUNTERS	9	0	9	0%	⚔ compare
SUNCITY BBQ SZEGED	8	0	8	0%	⚔ compare
BUNCH OF SWINES	7	0	7	0%	⚔ compare
Roast a Piece	6	3	3	50%	⚔ compare
BBQ BROS Competition Team	6	1	5	17%	⚔ compare
Feher Nyul BBQ Team	6	1	5	17%	⚔ compare

By meat

Category	Entries	Calls	Wins	Podiums	Best	Worst	Average	Avg finish
Chicken	21	6	1	2	176.0000	150.8228	164.65	top 63%
Pork Ribs	20	6	0	0	167.4628	149.1200	159.66	top 72%
Pork	21	7	0	1	172.5716	151.9656	161.64	top 67%
Brisket	21	5	1	1	177.1544	141.6572	156.35	top 74%

“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	Avg finish
Small (<20 teams)	10	top 87%
Medium (20–39)	9	top 70%
Large (40+)	1	top 55%

Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)

Contest	Visits	Best	GCs	Avg finish	Last visit
Muehlviertler BBQ Festival	2	12	0	top 67%	2025-05-17
Vienna BBQ Days	2	10	0	top 66%	2018-07-14

The story so far (14 numbers that describe this team)

On the trail 9 yrs 2017-07-08 → 2026-07-18

Busiest season 2019 7 contests

Contests a season 3.3 across 7 seasons in the data

Contests visited 18 2 of them cooked more than once

Most-entered meat Chicken 21 entries · 1 win · 6 calls

Strongest meat Chicken averages 164.65 · weakest Brisket (156.35)

Walk rate 70% a top-10 call in 16 of 23 contests

Overall top-10 rate 9% 2 of 23 contests

Master average 641.84 out of 720 · 20 contests · 0 GCs

Opponents faced 153 101–291 across every shared overall standing

Road miles 2,028 23 mapped stops

Schedule strength 1548 average field rating faced — tougher than 37% of rated contests

Longest layoff 3.8 yrs 2020-07-25 → 2024-05-18

Power rating 1419 peak 1419 · #6174 of 6,413 rated

Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)

2017
Jul 8 First tracked contest Vienna BBQ Days
Jul 8 First call Vienna BBQ Days
Jul 8 Peak power rating (1497) Vienna BBQ Days
2018
Jul 14 First category win (Chicken) Vienna BBQ Days
Jul 14 First overall top-10 Vienna BBQ Days
2019
Apr 6 10th tracked contest 4th Meat Smoke and Beer BBQ Competition
Apr 13 First overall past 90% of a perfect score650.2172 2nd Wild King BBQ Competition
2024
May 18 Career-best single call (Brisket)177.1544 Muehlviertler BBQ Festival
2026
Jul 18 Career-best overall score677.5656 Open Barbecue Championship
Jul 18 Most recent contest Open Barbecue Championship

Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)

📈 Biggest rating jumps

Swing	Contest	Date
+5.1	Muehlviertler BBQ Festival	2024-05-18
+4.2	Open Barbecue Championship	2026-07-18
+4.2	4th Black Forest Smoke & Wine Festival	2019-07-20
+1.7	2nd Wild King BBQ Competition	2019-04-13
+1.5	Vienna BBQ Days 2020 Day 2	2020-07-25

📉 Toughest weekends

Swing	Contest	Date
-14.1	2nd Meat Smoke and Beer BBQ Competition Wels 2018	2018-04-07
-13.4	Meat, Smoke & Beer Festival- BBQ on Ice	2018-02-17
-10.7	4th Meat Smoke and Beer BBQ Competition	2019-04-06
-10.2	Austrian BBQ Festival BARBECUE on ICE	2019-02-16
-9.5	Wild King BBQ Competition	2018-04-14

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)

Team of the Year rank by season

Season by season

Season	Contests	Top-10s	Category wins	Walk rate	Avg finish	Best overall (% of perfect)	Avg overall (% of perfect)
2026	2	1	0	100%	top 72%	94.1%	93.2%
2025	3	0	0	67%	top 80%	90.1%	90.1%
2024	2	0	1	50%	top 55%	91.7%	91.7%
2020	2	0	0	50%	top 78%	90.8%	88.3%
2019	7	0	0	71%	top 80%	90.3%	89.4%
2018	6	1	1	67%	top 84%	89.9%	87.3%
2017	1	0	0	100%	top 65%	88.4%	88.4%

Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)

Date	Event	Overall	Chicken	Ribs	Pork	Brisket
2026-07-18	Open Barbecue Championship Wilhering, 4073	12 / 20 (677.5656)	16 (167.3828)	18 (162.8000)	9 (171.9772)	4 (175.4056)
2026-02-28	Vienna Pet Fair BBQ Contest Vienna, 1030	10 / 12 (664.9716)	6 (173.1200)	10 (161.6688)	7 (169.6800)	11 (160.5028)
2025-05-17	Muehlviertler BBQ Festival Freistadt, Os 4240	12 / 15 (648.3884)	6 (167.9656)	15 (159.9544)	14 (156.5372)	10 (163.9312)
2025-05-17	Muehlviertler BBQ Festival (ONE MEAT BRISKET) Freistadt, Os 4240	—	—	—	—	6 (165.0856)
2025-05-17	Muehlviertler BBQ Festival (ONE MEAT PORK) Freistadt, Os 4240	—	—	—	11 (164.5488)	—
2024-05-18	Muehlviertler BBQ Festival Freistadt, Os 4240	12 / 22 (659.9084)	18 (160.0228)	9 (163.9428)	18 (158.7884)	1 (177.1544)
2024-05-18	Muehlviertler BBQ Festival (ONE MEAT CHICKEN) Freistadt, Os 4240	—	14 (162.2628)	—	—	—
2020-07-25	Vienna BBQ Days 2020 Day 2 Vienna, 1030	14 / 21 (653.7032)	7 (171.4172)	16 (157.7144)	11 (166.2744)	14 (158.2972)
2020-07-24	Vienna BBQ Days 2020 Day 1 Vienna, 1030	16 / 18 (617.1200)	14 (160.0000)	17 (152.5140)	14 (153.7260)	15 (150.8800)
2019-08-10	Wild West Fest On Fire Zbilje, Medvode, 1215	24 / 27 (638.8572)	15 (167.4628)	14 (166.2972)	26 (153.1084)	26 (151.9888)
2019-07-20	4th Black Forest Smoke & Wine Festival Bad Bellingen, 79415	24 / 44 (643.3832)	17 (164.5944)	29 (159.9656)	6 (172.5716)	40 (146.2516)
2019-04-27	5th Barbecue Bulls Championship Salzburg 2019 Salzburg, 5020	21 / 26 (643.3256)	15 (165.7028)	20 (159.9772)	24 (155.9428)	18 (161.7028)
2019-04-13	2nd Wild King BBQ Competition Tirol, A-6380	17 / 28 (650.2172)	16 (166.8456)	23 (149.1200)	5 (170.8572)	15 (163.3944)
2019-04-06	4th Meat Smoke and Beer BBQ Competition Wels, 4600	16 / 16 (647.3828)	15 (164.5828)	14 (159.4056)	6 (171.4288)	15 (151.9656)
2019-04-05	3rd Meat Smoke and Beer BBQ Competition Wels, 4600	12 / 16 (643.9428)	13 (161.7144)	6 (163.4172)	14 (158.8112)	11 (160.0000)
2019-02-16	Austrian BBQ Festival BARBECUE on ICE Weissensee, 9762	12 / 12 (640.5600)	11 (164.0228)	12 (154.8344)	10 (165.1428)	12 (156.5600)
2018-09-29	Meat, Smoke & Beer Festival & KCBS BBQ Competition 2018 Graz, 8010	15 / 19 (647.3600)	9 (169.7144)	10 (165.1428)	11 (164.0228)	16 (148.4800)
2018-07-14	Vienna BBQ Days Vienna , 1210	10 / 15 (642.2740)	1 (169.2000)	8 (162.2512)	14 (151.9656)	8 (158.8572)
2018-04-28	4th Barbecue Bulls Championship Salzburg 2018 Salzburg Austria, 5020	17 / 24 (636.0460)	16 (162.2856)	5 (167.4628)	18 (158.2860)	19 (148.0116)
2018-04-14	Wild King BBQ Competition Tirol, A-6380	20 / 23 (612.4800)	23 (150.8228)	19 (153.6916)	3 (166.2856)	20 (141.6800)
2018-04-07	2nd Meat Smoke and Beer BBQ Competition Wels 2018 Wels, 4600	17 / 17 (602.2172)	15 (152.0000)	13 (156.5600)	16 (152.0000)	17 (141.6572)
2018-02-17	Meat, Smoke & Beer Festival- BBQ on Ice Weissensee, 9762	17 / 17 (630.6856)	16 (160.4912)	16 (157.0972)	15 (160.5600)	17 (152.5372)
2017-07-08	Vienna BBQ Days Vienna ,	13 / 20 (636.4920)	2 (176.0000)	14 (159.3944)	16 (151.9888)	19 (149.1088)

Career map (orange GC · green top-10 · grey the rest — tap a pin)

Team of the Year standings (rank per category by season — year links to the full board on kcbs.us)

Year	Series	Overall	Chicken	Ribs	Pork	Brisket
2019 ↗	Master	#635 (515 pts)	#575 (600 pts)	#577 (600 pts)	#529 (650 pts)	#619 (545 pts)
2018 ↗	Master	#776 (420 pts)	#752 (460 pts)	#653 (560 pts)	#626 (600 pts)	#833 (405 pts)