High-water mark
673.5884
career-best overall
93.6% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 673.5884 at Smoking in the Foothills — 93.6% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2016-10-14
Breaking barbecue
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1505
peak 1505 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2016-10-14
latest 2016-10-14
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
1
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 49%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
33%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Brisket
avg 173.71 · weakest Pork (161.65)
Road miles
4,607
mi across 3 mapped stops · furthest 4607 mi
Master avg
673.59 / 720
1 Master contest · 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.
The comeback
9.7 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 9.7 years, then back at The War of Barbeque (ONE MEAT RIBS) (2026-06-20).
- last seen 2016-10-14
- back 2026-06-20
The long haul
4,607
road miles between contests
Contest to contest, they've covered roughly 4,607 miles across 3 mapped stops — the longest single trip being 4,607 miles to The War of Barbeque (ONE MEAT CHICKEN).
- 3 mapped stops
- furthest 4,607 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.
Breaking barbecue 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 106 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.
#3015 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-head#3010 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
Level with Breaking barbecue on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3001 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#3022 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#3007 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1508
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2013, 3 years before Breaking barbecue's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3019 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1510
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2013, 3 years before Breaking barbecue'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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2856 | 159.3712 | 162.83 | top 79% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 178.8572 | 154.8116 | 166.83 | top 45% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.6456 | 161.6456 | 161.65 | top 76% |
| Brisket | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 173.7144 | 173.7144 | 173.71 | top 20% |
“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
2016-10-14 → 2016-10-14
Busiest season
2026
2 contests
Contests a season
1.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
NC
1 of 3 contests
Contests visited
1
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Brisket
averages 173.71 · weakest Pork (161.65)
Walk rate
33%
a top-10 call in 1 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 3 contests
Master average
673.59
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
40
21–19 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
4,607
3 mapped stops · furthest 4,607 mi
Longest layoff
9.7 yrs
2016-10-14 → 2026-06-20
Power rating
1505
peak 1505 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2016
- First tracked contest Smoking in the Foothills
- First call Smoking in the Foothills
- First category win (Pork Ribs) Smoking in the Foothills
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score673.5884 Smoking in the Foothills
- Career-best overall score673.5884 Smoking in the Foothills
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)178.8572 Smoking in the Foothills
- 2026
- Most recent contest The War of Barbeque (ONE MEAT CHICKEN)
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 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 100% | top 49% | 93.6% | 93.6% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-20 | The War of Barbeque (ONE MEAT CHICKEN) Peschiera del Garda, 37019 | — | 15 (166.2856) | — | — | — |
| 2026-06-20 | The War of Barbeque (ONE MEAT RIBS) Peschiera del Garda, 37019 | — | — | 20 (154.8116) | — | — |
| 2016-10-14 | Smoking in the Foothills Lenoir, NC | 20 / 41 (673.5884) | 38 (159.3712) | 1 (178.8572) | 31 (161.6456) | 8 (173.7144) |