High-water mark
692.5256
career-best overall
96.2% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 692.5256 at Murphysboro BBQ Cookoff — 96.2% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2017-09-22
BBQ Bus
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1517
peak 1517 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
1
in the data
First seen
2017-09-22
latest 2017-09-22
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
1
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 1 contests
Avg finish
top 9%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 179.44 · weakest Brisket (167.39)
Master avg
692.53 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Storylines (1 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.
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.
BBQ Bus 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 94 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.
#2582 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1524
No shared contest yet.
6 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where BBQ Bus's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head#2600 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1525
No shared contest yet.
Level with BBQ Bus on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2602 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2017.
⚔ Head-to-head#2585 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1522
No shared contest yet.
6 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where BBQ Bus's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head#2589 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1524
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2014, 3 years before BBQ Bus's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2592 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 29%
- Peak
- 1527
No shared contest yet.
7 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where BBQ Bus's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 174.2856 | 174.2856 | 174.29 | top 7% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 179.4400 | 179.4400 | 179.44 | top 2% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171.4056 | 171.4056 | 171.41 | top 22% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.3944 | 167.3944 | 167.39 | top 36% |
“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 (11 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0 yrs
2017-09-22 → 2017-09-22
Busiest season
2017
1 contest
Cooks most in
IL
1 of 1 contests
Contests visited
1
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
1 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 179.44 · weakest Brisket (167.39)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 1 of 1 contests
Overall top-10 rate
100%
1 of 1 contests
Master average
692.53
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
54
50–4 across every shared overall standing
Power rating
1517
peak 1517 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2017
- First tracked contest Murphysboro BBQ Cookoff
- First call Murphysboro BBQ Cookoff
- First category win (Pork Ribs) Murphysboro BBQ Cookoff
- First overall top-10 Murphysboro BBQ Cookoff
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score692.5256 Murphysboro BBQ Cookoff
- Career-best overall score692.5256 Murphysboro BBQ Cookoff
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)179.4400 Murphysboro BBQ Cookoff
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 100% | top 9% | 96.2% | 96.2% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-09-22 | Murphysboro BBQ Cookoff Murphysboro, IL | 5 / 55 (692.5256) | 4 (174.2856) | 1 (179.4400) | 12 (171.4056) | 20 (167.3944) |