#2637 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1515
No shared contest yet.
5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where HOPE BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headHOPE BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1516
peak 1516 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
1
in the data
First seen
2026-01-30
latest 2026-01-30
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
2 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 1 contests
Avg finish
top 7%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 165.10 · weakest Chicken (160.53)
Purse competed for
$10K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Still inside their first twelve months: see what a first season usually looks like.
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.
HOPE 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 81 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.
#2617 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2023, 3 years before HOPE BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2620 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1526
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2013, 13 years before HOPE BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#2616 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
Level with HOPE BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2621 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 100%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
6 straight overall top-10s says this rating is a moving target.
⚔ Head-to-head#2635 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1519
No shared contest yet.
6 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where HOPE BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 160.5260 | 160.5260 | 160.53 | top 10% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 161.0856 | 161.0856 | 161.09 | top 5% |
| Pork | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 165.0972 | 165.0972 | 165.10 | top 7% |
| 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 (12 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0 yrs
2026-01-30 → 2026-01-30
Busiest season
2026
1 contest
Cooks most in
CA
1 of 1 contests
Contests visited
1
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
1 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 165.10 · weakest Chicken (160.53)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 1 of 1 contests
Overall top-10 rate
100%
1 of 1 contests
Opponents faced
44
39–4 across every shared overall standing
Purse competed for
$10,000
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Power rating
1516
peak 1516 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2026
- First tracked contest The Golden State Battle VIII
- First call The Golden State Battle VIII
- First overall top-10 The Golden State Battle VIII
- First overall podium The Golden State Battle VIII
- Career-best overall score486.7088 The Golden State Battle VIII
- Career-best single call (Pork)165.0972 The Golden State Battle VIII
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 | 0 | 100% | top 7% | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-30 | The Golden State Battle VIII 🏅 Riverside, CA | 3 / 41 (486.7088) | 4 (160.5260) | 2 (161.0856) | 3 (165.0972) | — |