High-water mark
683.3828
career-best overall
94.9% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 683.3828 at Smoke in the North (Day 2) — 94.9% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2026-08-22
El Gusto BBQ Team
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1500
peak 1500 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2026-08-21
latest 2026-08-22
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
2 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 56%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 169.43 · weakest Brisket (165.13)
Road miles
0
mi across 2 mapped stops
Master avg
668.80 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs
Still inside their first twelve months: see what a first season usually looks like.
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.
El Gusto BBQ Team 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 128 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.
#3198 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1500
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3205 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2020, 6 years before El Gusto BBQ Team's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3199 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
Level with El Gusto BBQ Team on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3207 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1500
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 5 years before El Gusto BBQ Team's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3206 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 5 years before El Gusto BBQ Team's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3218 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 5 years before El Gusto 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 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 175.4288 | 162.2400 | 168.83 | top 49% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 176.5600 | 162.2972 | 169.43 | top 45% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.9656 | 162.8460 | 165.41 | top 66% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.8344 | 163.4284 | 165.13 | top 69% |
“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.
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smoke in the North (Day 2) | 2 | 8 | 0 | top 56% | 2026-08-22 |
The story so far (11 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0 yrs
2026-08-21 → 2026-08-22
Busiest season
2026
2 contests
Contests visited
1
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 169.43 · weakest Brisket (165.13)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 1 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
50%
1 of 2 contests
Master average
668.80
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
27
23–29 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
0
2 mapped stops
Power rating
1500
peak 1500 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2026
- First tracked contest Smoke in the North (Day 1)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score654.2176 Smoke in the North (Day 1)
- First call Smoke in the North (Day 2)
- First overall top-10 Smoke in the North (Day 2)
- Career-best overall score683.3828 Smoke in the North (Day 2)
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)176.5600 Smoke in the North (Day 2)
- Most recent contest Smoke in the North (Day 2)
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 56% | 94.9% | 92.9% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-22 | Smoke in the North (Day 2) Boras, 50113 | 8 / 26 (683.3828) | 3 (175.4288) | 3 (176.5600) | 14 (167.9656) | 20 (163.4284) |
| 2026-08-21 | Smoke in the North (Day 1) Boras, 50113 | 23 / 28 (654.2176) | 24 (162.2400) | 22 (162.2972) | 22 (162.8460) | 17 (166.8344) |