A tough matchup
3–0
behind in the head-to-head
RIBLIFE ahead in 100% of their meetings
RIBLIFE has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
Mass Koss
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1482
peak 1482 · rated over 3 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2019-12-06
latest 2025-12-05
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 108%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 159.79 · weakest Brisket (152.48)
Road miles
0
mi across 3 mapped stops
Schedule strength
86%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1617)
Purse competed for
$14K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 3 state-championship entries
Master avg
631.27 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
315.07 / 360
2 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
Master and Backyard overall scores sit on different scales (Master is out of 720, Backyard out of 360), so they're kept separate — averaging them together would be misleading.
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
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
5 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 5 years, then back at Christmas on the River State Bar B Q Championship (2024-12-06).
- last seen 2019-12-06
- back 2024-12-06
They cook the hard rooms
1617
average field rating faced
A tougher draw than 86% of rated fields
The fields they enter average a 1617 power rating — a tougher draw than 86% of every rated contest in the data.
- 3 rated contests
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.
Mass Koss has 3 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 117 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.
#4015 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1482
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 6 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#4029 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1482
No shared contest yet.
Level with Mass Koss on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#4010 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1483
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#4019 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1482
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#4025 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1482
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 4 years before Mass Koss's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#4002 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1503
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 6 years before Mass Koss'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 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.7144 | 155.3944 | 159.79 | top 110% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.8344 | 147.3372 | 157.29 | top 109% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.6800 | 157.6800 | 157.68 | top 110% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 152.4800 | 152.4800 | 152.48 | top 124% |
“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.
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 182% |
| Medium (20–39) | 2 | 0 | top 70% |
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christmas on the River State Bar B Q Championship (OPEN FORMAT) | 2 | 17 | 0 | top 131% | 2025-12-05 |
The story so far (18 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
6 yrs
2019-12-06 → 2025-12-05
Busiest season
2025
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 3 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
AL
3 of 3 contests
Contests visited
2
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
3 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 159.79 · weakest Brisket (152.48)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 3 contests
Master average
631.27
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Backyard average
315.07
out of 360 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
83
19–80 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
0
3 mapped stops
Schedule strength
1617
average field rating faced — tougher than 86% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$14,350
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 3 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
5 yrs
2019-12-06 → 2024-12-06
Power rating
1482
peak 1482 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2019
- First tracked contest COTR BBQ
- Career-best single call (Chicken)165.7144 COTR BBQ
- Peak power rating (1499) COTR BBQ
- 2025
- Career-best overall score631.2688 Christmas on the River State Bar B Q Championship (OPEN FORMAT)
- Most recent contest Christmas on the River State Bar B Q Championship (OPEN FORMAT)
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -10.9 | Christmas on the River State Bar B Q Championship | 2024-12-06 |
| -5.1 | Christmas on the River State Bar B Q Championship (OPEN FORMAT) | 2025-12-05 |
| -1.5 | COTR BBQ | 2019-12-06 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 81% | 87.7% | 87.7% |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 182% | 88.1% | 88.1% |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 60% | 87% | 87% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-05 | Christmas on the River State Bar B Q Championship (OPEN FORMAT) 🏅 Demopolis, AL | 17 / 21 (631.2688) | 23 (158.2744) | 21 (162.8344) | 23 (157.6800) | 26 (152.4800) |
| 2024-12-06 | Christmas on the River State Bar B Q Championship 🏅 Demopolis, AL | 20 / 11 (317.0860) | 19 (155.3944) | 17 (161.6916) | — | — |
| 2019-12-06 | COTR BBQ 🏅 Demopolis, AL | 15 / 25 (313.0516) | 12 (165.7144) | 18 (147.3372) | — | — |