High-water mark
686.7540
career-best overall
95.4% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 686.7540 at 39th American Royal World Series of Barbecue (OPEN) — 95.4% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2018-09-15
SpecChem's Fired Up
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1517
peak 1517 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
1
in the data
First seen
2018-09-15
latest 2018-09-15
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 1 contests
Avg finish
top 9%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Brisket
avg 173.11 · weakest Pork (169.68)
Master avg
686.75 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
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.
SpecChem's Fired Up 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 93 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.
#2580 of the rated field
- Contests
- 14
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 7%
- Peak
- 1531
1–0 in 1 shared contest (100% to SpecChem's Fired Up)
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team SpecChem's Fired Up has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head#2582 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1524
No shared contest yet.
6 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where SpecChem's Fired Up's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head#2600 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1525
No shared contest yet.
Level with SpecChem's Fired Up on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2602 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where SpecChem's Fired Up's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head#2608 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1523
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2015, 3 years before SpecChem's Fired Up's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2585 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1522
No shared contest yet.
6 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where SpecChem's Fired Up's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171.9884 | 171.9884 | 171.99 | top 23% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171.9772 | 171.9772 | 171.98 | top 19% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.6800 | 169.6800 | 169.68 | top 27% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 173.1084 | 173.1084 | 173.11 | top 14% |
“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 (11 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0 yrs
2018-09-15 → 2018-09-15
Busiest season
2018
1 contest
Cooks most in
KS
1 of 1 contests
Contests visited
1
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
1 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Brisket
averages 173.11 · weakest Pork (169.68)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 1 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 1 contests
Master average
686.75
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
466
427–39 across every shared overall standing
Power rating
1517
peak 1517 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2018
- First tracked contest 39th American Royal World Series of Barbecue (OPEN)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score686.7540 39th American Royal World Series of Barbecue (OPEN)
- Career-best overall score686.7540 39th American Royal World Series of Barbecue (OPEN)
- Career-best single call (Brisket)173.1084 39th American Royal World Series of Barbecue (OPEN)
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 9% | 95.4% | 95.4% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-09-15 | 39th American Royal World Series of Barbecue (OPEN) Kansas City, KS | 40 / 467 (686.7540) | 106 (171.9884) | 91 (171.9772) | 126 (169.6800) | 67 (173.1084) |