The comeback
2.9 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 2.9 years, then back at *Interstate BBQ Festival (2018-04-20).
- last seen 2015-05-23
- back 2018-04-20
Ghost BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1498
peak 1498 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2015-05-23
latest 2015-05-23
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 57%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
33%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 166.25 · weakest Brisket (145.70)
Road miles
3,855
mi across 3 mapped stops · furthest 3839 mi
Master avg
634.31 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Storylines (2 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.
The long haul
3,855
road miles between contests
Contest to contest, they've covered roughly 3,855 miles across 3 mapped stops — the longest single trip being 3,839 miles to Tony Stone Low & Slow BBQ Competition.
- 3 mapped stops
- furthest 3,839 mi
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.
Ghost 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 122 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.
#3297 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1514
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#3295 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2015.
⚔ Head-to-head#3261 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1499
No shared contest yet.
Their rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 6 contests, alongside a 17% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-head#3285 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
Level with Ghost BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3288 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1509
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#3296 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1506
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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2512 | 166.2512 | 166.25 | top 29% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 165.7716 | 165.7716 | 165.77 | top 15% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 156.5828 | 156.5828 | 156.58 | top 71% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 145.7028 | 145.7028 | 145.70 | top 88% |
“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
2015-05-23 → 2015-05-23
Busiest season
2018
2 contests
Contests a season
1.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
WV
1 of 3 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
1
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
1 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 166.25 · weakest Brisket (145.70)
Walk rate
33%
a top-10 call in 1 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 3 contests
Master average
634.31
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
67
29–38 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
3,855
3 mapped stops · furthest 3,839 mi
Longest layoff
2.9 yrs
2015-05-23 → 2018-04-20
Power rating
1498
peak 1498 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2015
- First tracked contest Tony Stone Low & Slow BBQ Competition
- First call Tony Stone Low & Slow BBQ Competition
- Career-best overall score634.3084 Tony Stone Low & Slow BBQ Competition
- Career-best single call (Chicken)166.2512 Tony Stone Low & Slow BBQ Competition
- 2018
- Most recent contest *West Virginia BBQ Festival (JUDGES FULL)
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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 57% | 88.1% | 88.1% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-08-31 | *West Virginia BBQ Festival (JUDGES FULL) Ranson, WV | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2018-04-20 | *Interstate BBQ Festival Hagerstown, MD | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2015-05-23 | Tony Stone Low & Slow BBQ Competition Hoofddorp Netherlands, | 39 / 68 (634.3084) | 20 (166.2512) | 10 (165.7716) | 48 (156.5828) | 60 (145.7028) |