High-water mark
671.3372
career-best overall
93.2% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 671.3372 at KTD Smokin ' Gobbler Cook-Off — 93.2% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2017-09-15
Big Chain BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1515
peak 1515 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2013-08-23
latest 2017-09-15
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
1
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 36%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 172.84 · weakest Pork Ribs (164.83)
Road miles
111
mi across 2 mapped stops · furthest 56 mi
Master avg
670.76 / 720
2 Master contests · 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.
Big Chain BBQ 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 85 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.
#2637 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1515
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2648 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1515
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 9 years after Big Chain BBQ did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-head#2642 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
Level with Big Chain BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2646 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1518
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2645 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1515
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2014, 3 years before Big Chain BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2635 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1519
No shared contest yet.
6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Big Chain BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 175.4172 | 170.2628 | 172.84 | top 25% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.1316 | 164.5372 | 164.83 | top 53% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.8344 | 166.8228 | 166.83 | top 49% |
| Brisket | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 169.7144 | 162.8000 | 166.26 | top 33% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 37% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 34% |
The story so far (14 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
4.1 yrs
2013-08-23 → 2017-09-15
Busiest season
2017
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
MN
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 1 win · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 172.84 · weakest Pork Ribs (164.83)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 2 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
50%
1 of 2 contests
Master average
670.76
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
70
50–25 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
111
2 mapped stops · furthest 56 mi
Longest layoff
4.1 yrs
2013-08-23 → 2017-09-15
Power rating
1515
peak 1515 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2013
- First tracked contest 6th Annual Big Island BBQ
- First call 6th Annual Big Island BBQ
- First category win (Chicken) 6th Annual Big Island BBQ
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score670.1832 6th Annual Big Island BBQ
- Career-best single call (Chicken)175.4172 6th Annual Big Island BBQ
- 2017
- First overall top-10 KTD Smokin ' Gobbler Cook-Off
- Career-best overall score671.3372 KTD Smokin ' Gobbler Cook-Off
- Most recent contest KTD Smokin ' Gobbler Cook-Off
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 37% | 93.2% | 93.2% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 100% | top 34% | 93.1% | 93.1% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-09-15 | KTD Smokin ' Gobbler Cook-Off Worthington, MN | 10 / 27 (671.3372) | 13 (170.2628) | 16 (164.5372) | 14 (166.8228) | 7 (169.7144) |
| 2013-08-23 | 6th Annual Big Island BBQ Albert Lea, MN | 17 / 50 (670.1832) | 1 (175.4172) | 23 (165.1316) | 23 (166.8344) | 20 (162.8000) |