A tough matchup
4–0
behind in the head-to-head
BLUE CHIP BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings
BLUE CHIP BBQ has come out ahead in 4 of their 4 shared contests.
* Black Forest
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1466
peak 1466 · rated over 4 contests ⓘ
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
2015-10-23
latest 2018-10-26
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 96%
overall standings
Best overall
629.5084 / 720
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
621.43
last 4 Master vs avg 621.43 (+0.00)
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Best single call
166.2628
Consistency
±7.61
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 162.28 · weakest Pork (150.11)
Road miles
0
mi across 4 mapped stops
Schedule strength
96%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1654)
Master avg
621.43 / 720
4 Master contests · 0 GCs
Storylines (3 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 cook the hard rooms
1654
average field rating faced
A tougher draw than 96% of rated fields
The fields they enter average a 1654 power rating — a tougher draw than 96% of every rated contest in the data.
- 4 rated contests
A standing appointment
4
years running at one contest
They've cooked Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES FULL) every year from 2015 to 2018 — the contest they never miss.
- 4 visits in all
- best finish 88th
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.
* Black Forest has 4 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 134 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.
#4800 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1466
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 7 contests to 4.
⚔ Head-to-head#4830 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1466
No shared contest yet.
Level with * Black Forest on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#4832 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1466
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#4814 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1466
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#4840 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1466
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#4818 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1466
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2628 | 159.4056 | 162.28 | top 81% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.9772 | 147.9772 | 154.53 | top 93% |
| Pork | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.2628 | 143.9540 | 150.11 | top 92% |
| Brisket | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.9656 | 153.0628 | 154.51 | top 89% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES FULL) | 4 | 88 | 0 | top 96% | 2018-10-26 |
The story so far (15 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
3 yrs
2015-10-23 → 2018-10-26
Busiest season
2018
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 4 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
TN
4 of 4 contests
Contests visited
1
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
4 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 162.28 · weakest Pork (150.11)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 4 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 4 contests
Master average
621.43
out of 720 · 4 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
285
15–367 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
0
4 mapped stops
Schedule strength
1654
average field rating faced — tougher than 96% of rated contests
Longest layoff
1 yrs
2016-10-21 → 2017-10-27
Power rating
1466
peak 1466 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2015
- First tracked contest Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY)
- Peak power rating (1491) Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY)
- 2017
- Career-best single call (Chicken)166.2628 Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY)
- 2018
- Career-best overall score629.5084 Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES FULL)
- Most recent contest Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES FULL)
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📉 Toughest weekends
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 94% | 87.4% | 87.4% |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 97% | 86.5% | 86.5% |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 99% | 84.6% | 84.6% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 95% | 86.7% | 86.7% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-10-26 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES FULL) Lynchburg, TN | 96 / 102 (629.5084) | 83 (160.5372) | 99 (151.3484) | 69 (162.2628) | 89 (155.3600) |
| 2017-10-27 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) Lynchburg, TN | 92 / 95 (622.6856) | 66 (166.2628) | 88 (158.8344) | 94 (143.9540) | 89 (153.6344) |
| 2016-10-21 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) Lynchburg, TN | 95 / 96 (608.9712) | 89 (159.4056) | 96 (147.9772) | 96 (148.5256) | 87 (153.0628) |
| 2015-10-23 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) Lynchburg, TN | 88 / 93 (624.5484) | 74 (162.9028) | 78 (159.9772) | 93 (145.7028) | 77 (155.9656) |