High-water mark
672.0116
career-best overall
93.3% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 672.0116 at BBQ Fest Costa Rica — 93.3% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2026-02-21
Los Maes BBQ Team
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1490
peak 1490 · rated over 3 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2025-06-27
latest 2026-02-21
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
1
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 66%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
67%
contests with a top-10 call
Top-10 streak
2
and counting
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 171.23 · weakest Brisket (155.13)
Road miles
84
mi across 3 mapped stops · furthest 68 mi
Schedule strength
5%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1507)
Master avg
653.97 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
322.80 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 0 GCs
Master and Backyard overall scores sit on different scales (Master is out of 720, Backyard out of 360), so they're kept separate — averaging them together would be misleading.
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Storylines (1 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.
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.
Los Maes BBQ Team 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 163 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.
#3666 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#3651 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2017, 8 years before Los Maes BBQ Team's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3654 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1503
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2023, 3 years before Los Maes BBQ Team's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3661 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
Level with Los Maes BBQ Team on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3641 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1490
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 7 years before Los Maes BBQ Team's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3639 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1490
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 8 years before Los Maes BBQ Team'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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 166.8344 | 157.6800 | 161.87 | top 69% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 169.7144 | 158.3200 | 164.38 | top 59% |
| Pork | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 177.7372 | 163.9656 | 171.23 | top 44% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.7256 | 152.5372 | 155.13 | top 91% |
“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 (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0.7 yrs
2025-06-27 → 2026-02-21
Busiest season
2025
2 contests
Contests a season
1.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
SJ
1 of 3 contests
Contests visited
3
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
3 entries · 0 wins · 2 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 171.23 · weakest Brisket (155.13)
Walk rate
67%
a top-10 call in 2 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
67%
2 of 3 contests
Best top-10 run
2
straight contests — and still running
Master average
653.97
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Backyard average
322.80
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
28
17–22 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
84
3 mapped stops · furthest 68 mi
Schedule strength
1507
average field rating faced — tougher than 5% of rated contests
Power rating
1490
peak 1490 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2025
- First tracked contest Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2025
- First call BBQ Fest Palmares (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall top-10 BBQ Fest Palmares (BACKYARD ONLY)
- 2026
- First category win (Pork) BBQ Fest Costa Rica
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score672.0116 BBQ Fest Costa Rica
- Career-best overall score672.0116 BBQ Fest Costa Rica
- Career-best single call (Pork)177.7372 BBQ Fest Costa Rica
- Peak power rating (1490) BBQ Fest Costa Rica
- Most recent contest BBQ Fest Costa Rica
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +11.9 | BBQ Fest Costa Rica | 2026-02-21 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -11.3 | Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2025 | 2025-06-27 |
| -10.8 | BBQ Fest Palmares (BACKYARD ONLY) | 2025-11-15 |
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 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 100% | top 22% | 93.3% | 93.3% |
| 2025 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 50% | top 88% | 89.7% | 89% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-21 | BBQ Fest Costa Rica Alajuela, 10903 | 4 / 18 (672.0116) | 6 (166.8344) | 8 (169.7144) | 1 (177.7372) | 16 (157.7256) |
| 2025-11-15 | BBQ Fest Palmares (BACKYARD ONLY) Palmares, 20701 | 7 / 8 (322.8000) | 8 (157.6800) | 5 (165.1200) | 4 (172.0000) | — |
| 2025-06-27 | Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2025 Perez Zeldon, SJ | 14 / 16 (635.9312) | 12 (161.1084) | 11 (158.3200) | 12 (163.9656) | 15 (152.5372) |