The heartbreaker
2.2516
points from the title
Came within 2.2516 points of the Grand Championship at Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2025 (2025-06-27).
DrumQ BBQ C.R.
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1520
peak 1520 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2025-06-27
latest 2025-11-15
Grand champs
0
1 reserve
Category wins
3
3 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 25%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Top-10 streak
2
and counting
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 177.43 · weakest Pork (163.16)
Road miles
68
mi across 2 mapped stops · furthest 68 mi
Master avg
679.50 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
339.41 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 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 (4 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.
A multi-meat day
1
contests with 2+ category wins
They've won two or more meats on the same day 1 time — the best of them 2 category wins at Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2025 (2025-06-27).
- Chicken 1st
- Brisket 1st
High-water mark
679.4972
career-best overall
94.4% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 679.4972 at Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2025 — 94.4% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2025-06-27
Announced themselves early
2nd
at their very first contest
Finished 2 of 16 at their very first tracked contest, Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2025 (2025-06-27).
- 2025-06-27
- 16-team field
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.
DrumQ BBQ C.R. has 2 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 81 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.
#2480 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1520
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2479 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1521
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2022, 3 years before DrumQ BBQ C.R.'s most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2482 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1520
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2013, 12 years before DrumQ BBQ C.R.'s first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#2477 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1530
No shared contest yet.
Level with DrumQ BBQ C.R. on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2473 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1521
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2022, 3 years before DrumQ BBQ C.R.'s most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2475 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1521
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2016, 9 years before DrumQ BBQ C.R.'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 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 178.8572 | 176.0000 | 177.43 | top 9% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 170.8572 | 160.5488 | 165.70 | top 59% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 168.0000 | 158.3200 | 163.16 | top 88% |
| Brisket | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 174.3200 | 174.3200 | 174.32 | top 6% |
“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
0.4 yrs
2025-06-27 → 2025-11-15
Busiest season
2025
2 contests
Cooks most in
SJ
1 of 2 contests
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 2 wins · 2 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 177.43 · weakest Pork (163.16)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 2 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
100%
2 of 2 contests
Best top-10 run
2
straight contests — and still running
Master average
679.50
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Backyard average
339.41
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
18
19–3 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
68
2 mapped stops · furthest 68 mi
Power rating
1520
peak 1520 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2025
- First tracked contest Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2025
- First call Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2025
- First category win (Chicken) Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2025
- First overall top-10 Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2025
- First overall podium Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2025
- First Reserve Championship Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2025
- First multi-meat day Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2025
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score679.4972 Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2025
- Career-best overall score679.4972 Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2025
- Career-best single call (Chicken)178.8572 BBQ Fest Palmares (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Most recent contest BBQ Fest Palmares (BACKYARD ONLY)
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 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 100% | top 25% | 94.4% | 94.3% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-15 | BBQ Fest Palmares (BACKYARD ONLY) Palmares, 20701 | 3 / 8 (339.4060) | 1 (178.8572) | 7 (160.5488) | 6 (168.0000) | — |
| 2025-06-27 | Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2025 Perez Zeldon, SJ | 2 / 16 (679.4972) | 1 (176.0000) | 5 (170.8572) | 16 (158.3200) | 1 (174.3200) |