The one to beat
2×
one call ahead of them
Men of Erin has finished one call ahead of Meat Me in St. Louie 2 times — their closest competition in the data.
Meat Me in St. Louie
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1510
peak 1510 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
2015-05-01
latest 2018-05-04
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
1
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
3
of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 44%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
629.91
last 4 Master vs avg 629.91 (+0.00)
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Top-10 streak
2
and counting
Consistency
±12.77
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 164.70 · weakest Brisket (153.69)
Road miles
0
mi across 4 mapped stops
Master avg
629.91 / 720
4 Master contests · 0 GCs
Storylines (5 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 tough matchup
4–0
behind in the head-to-head
PARK AVENUE PORK ahead in 100% of their meetings
PARK AVENUE PORK has come out ahead in 4 of their 4 shared contests.
A strong matchup
4–0
ahead in the head-to-head
Ahead in 100% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of TAILGATE WARRIORS in 4 of their 4 shared contests.
Announced themselves early
5th
at their very first contest
Finished 5 of 23 at their very first tracked contest, UMB Smokin' Vault (Competitor's Series) (2015-05-01).
- 2015-05-01
- 23-team field
A standing appointment
4
years running at one contest
They've cooked UMB Smokin' Vault (Competitors Invitational Only Series) every year from 2015 to 2018 — the contest they never miss.
- 4 visits in all
- best finish 5th
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.
Meat Me in St. Louie 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 92 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.
#2813 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 29%
- Peak
- 1535
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 7 contests to 4.
⚔ Head-to-head#2829 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1510
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 8 years after Meat Me in St. Louie did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-head#2816 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1510
No shared contest yet.
Level with Meat Me in St. Louie on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2799 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1517
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2014, 4 years before Meat Me in St. Louie's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2806 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1518
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2014, 4 years before Meat Me in St. Louie's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2821 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1520
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 6 contests to 4.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 174.8572 | 155.4056 | 164.70 | top 33% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 159.3944 | 150.2628 | 155.10 | top 54% |
| Pork | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 162.8000 | 151.4400 | 156.42 | top 53% |
| Brisket | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 157.6916 | 149.1544 | 153.69 | top 52% |
“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) | 2 | 0 | top 53% |
| Medium (20–39) | 2 | 0 | top 36% |
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UMB Smokin' Vault (Competitors Invitational Only Series) | 4 | 5 | 0 | top 44% | 2018-05-04 |
The story so far (15 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
3 yrs
2015-05-01 → 2018-05-04
Busiest season
2018
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 4 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
MO
4 of 4 contests
Contests visited
1
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
4 entries · 1 win · 3 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 164.70 · weakest Brisket (153.69)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 4 of 4 contests
Overall top-10 rate
75%
3 of 4 contests
Best top-10 run
2
straight contests — and still running
Master average
629.91
out of 720 · 4 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
46
45–29 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
0
4 mapped stops
Longest layoff
1 yrs
2015-05-01 → 2016-05-06
Power rating
1510
peak 1510 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2015
- First tracked contest UMB Smokin' Vault (Competitor's Series)
- First call UMB Smokin' Vault (Competitor's Series)
- First category win (Chicken) UMB Smokin' Vault (Competitor's Series)
- First overall top-10 UMB Smokin' Vault (Competitor's Series)
- Career-best overall score642.2404 UMB Smokin' Vault (Competitor's Series)
- Career-best single call (Chicken)174.8572 UMB Smokin' Vault (Competitor's Series)
- 2018
- Most recent contest UMB Smokin' Vault (Competitors Invitational Only Series)
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 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 64% | 87.5% | 87.5% |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 41% | 88.6% | 88.6% |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 50% | 84.6% | 84.6% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 100% | top 22% | 89.2% | 89.2% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-05-04 | UMB Smokin' Vault (Competitors Invitational Only Series) unrated Kansas City, MO | 9 / 14 (630.1828) | 4 (167.4056) | 11 (152.5028) | 10 (157.1544) | 9 (153.1200) |
| 2017-05-05 | UMB Smokin' Vault (Competitors Invitational Series) unrated Kansas City, MO | 7 / 17 (638.1144) | 7 (161.1200) | 8 (159.3944) | 6 (162.8000) | 10 (154.8000) |
| 2016-05-06 | UMB Smokin' Vault (Competitors Invitational Series) unrated Kansas City, MO | 12 / 24 (609.1084) | 14 (155.4056) | 13 (150.2628) | 8 (154.2856) | 12 (149.1544) |
| 2015-05-01 | UMB Smokin' Vault (Competitor's Series) Kansas City, MO | 5 / 23 (642.2404) | 1 (174.8572) | 8 (158.2516) | 17 (151.4400) | 8 (157.6916) |