#3712 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headMamba Smoke & Grill
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1489
peak 1489 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2026-01-24
latest 2026-07-12
Best ToY finish
#814
Master 2026
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 72%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 162.85 · weakest Brisket (147.70)
Road miles
177
mi across 2 mapped stops · furthest 177 mi
Master avg
623.08 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs
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.
Mamba Smoke & Grill has 2 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 153 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.
#3730 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
Level with Mamba Smoke & Grill on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3698 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1500
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2023, 3 years before Mamba Smoke & Grill's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3697 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1489
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2013, 13 years before Mamba Smoke & Grill's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3726 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1489
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 5 years before Mamba Smoke & Grill's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3733 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1511
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 8 years before Mamba Smoke & Grill'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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 158.2512 | 152.5372 | 155.39 | top 69% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 163.9656 | 161.7372 | 162.85 | top 48% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 161.7028 | 152.5600 | 157.13 | top 71% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 150.8572 | 144.5484 | 147.70 | top 75% |
“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 77% |
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 68% |
The story so far (12 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0.5 yrs
2026-01-24 → 2026-07-12
Busiest season
2026
2 contests
Cooks most in
PO
1 of 2 contests
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 162.85 · weakest Brisket (147.70)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 1 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
50%
1 of 2 contests
Master average
623.08
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
36
13–29 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
177
2 mapped stops · furthest 177 mi
Power rating
1489
peak 1489 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2026
- First tracked contest Chiriqui Grill Fest Internacional
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)163.9656 Chiriqui Grill Fest Internacional
- First call BBQ Fest Market Plaza
- First overall top-10 BBQ Fest Market Plaza
- Career-best overall score626.2396 BBQ Fest Market Plaza
- Most recent contest BBQ Fest Market Plaza
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 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 50% | top 72% | 87% | 86.5% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-12 | BBQ Fest Market Plaza La Chorrera, PO | 10 / 13 (626.2396) | 7 (158.2512) | 7 (161.7372) | 8 (161.7028) | 11 (144.5484) |
| 2026-01-24 | Chiriqui Grill Fest Internacional Chiriqui, +507 | 21 / 31 (619.9200) | 26 (152.5372) | 13 (163.9656) | 25 (152.5600) | 20 (150.8572) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 ↗ | Master | #814 (113 pts) | #771 (143 pts) | #813 (143 pts) | #748 (133 pts) | #844 (108 pts) |