The comeback
5 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 5 years, then back at Bands & BBQ at the Point (2018-09-14).
- last seen 2013-10-03
- back 2018-09-14
BLUEGRASS BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1500
peak 1500 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2013-10-03
latest 2013-10-03
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 56%
overall standings
Best overall
657.6112 / 720
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 169.13 · weakest Pork Ribs (157.13)
Road miles
506
mi across 3 mapped stops · furthest 506 mi
Master avg
646.73 / 720
2 Master contests · 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.
BLUEGRASS 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 121 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.
#3203 of the rated field
- Contests
- 11
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1505
0–1 in 1 shared contest (0% to BLUEGRASS BBQ)
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team BLUEGRASS BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head#3210 of the rated field
- Contests
- 15
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 13%
- Peak
- 1501
1–0 in 1 shared contest (100% to BLUEGRASS BBQ)
This is the highest they've ever been rated, 15 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Head-to-head#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 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#3205 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 7 years after BLUEGRASS BBQ did, first appearing in 2020.
⚔ Head-to-head#3199 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
Level with BLUEGRASS BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3189 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1508
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 174.8800 | 163.3712 | 169.13 | top 24% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.7144 | 152.5372 | 157.13 | top 66% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.3712 | 151.9428 | 157.66 | top 70% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.8228 | 158.8228 | 162.82 | top 45% |
“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 (14 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0 yrs
2013-10-03 → 2013-10-03
Busiest season
2013
2 contests
Contests a season
1.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
MO
2 of 3 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 169.13 · weakest Pork Ribs (157.13)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 3 contests
Master average
646.73
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
556
320–387 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
506
3 mapped stops · furthest 506 mi
Longest layoff
5 yrs
2013-10-03 → 2018-09-14
Power rating
1500
peak 1500 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2013
- First tracked contest 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Invitational
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score657.6112 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Invitational
- Career-best overall score657.6112 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Invitational
- Career-best single call (Chicken)174.8800 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Invitational
- 2018
- Most recent contest Bands & BBQ at the Point
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% | — | — | — |
| 2013 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 56% | 91.3% | 89.8% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-09-14 | Bands & BBQ at the Point Carrollton, KY | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2013-10-03 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 287 / 535 (635.8512) | 220 (163.3712) | 206 (161.7144) | 433 (151.9428) | 260 (158.8228) |
| 2013-10-03 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Invitational unrated Kansas City, MO | 102 / 174 (657.6112) | 13 (174.8800) | 161 (152.5372) | 104 (163.3712) | 71 (166.8228) |