Giant slayer
47
teams beaten in one weekend
Took the Grand Championship over a 47-team field at Maryland State BBQ Bash.
- 2017-08-11
Capt. Blu BBQ
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
2017-08-11
latest 2017-08-11
Grand champs
1
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 1 contests
Avg finish
top 2%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Master avg
335.39 / 720
1 Master contest · 1 GC
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.
In the record book (1 in the KCBS record book)
Where this team stands in the all-time KCBS record book. A gold line is a record they hold outright; the rest are boards they are on. Rebuilt nightly, so beating one shows up here the next morning.
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.
Capt. Blu BBQ 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 96 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 Capt. Blu BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head#2569 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1531
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 6 years after Capt. Blu BBQ did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-head#2585 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1522
No shared contest yet.
Level with Capt. Blu BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ 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 Capt. Blu BBQ'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 Capt. Blu BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head#2594 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1530
No shared contest yet.
7 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Capt. Blu BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
| Pork Ribs | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
| Pork | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
| Brisket | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
“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
2017-08-11 → 2017-08-11
Busiest season
2017
1 contest · 1 GC
Cooks most in
MD
1 of 1 contests
Contests visited
1
0 of them cooked more than once
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 1 contests
Overall top-10 rate
100%
1 of 1 contests
Wins it all
100%
1 Grand Championship · 0 reserve
First title
2017-08-11
Maryland State BBQ Bash
Master average
335.39
out of 720 · 1 contest · 1 GC
Opponents faced
95
94–0 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 Maryland State BBQ Bash
- First overall top-10 Maryland State BBQ Bash
- First overall podium Maryland State BBQ Bash
- First Grand Championship Maryland State BBQ Bash
- Biggest field won (47 teams) Maryland State BBQ Bash
- Career-best overall score335.3944 Maryland State BBQ Bash
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 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0% | top 2% | 46.6% | 46.6% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-08-11 | Maryland State BBQ Bash Bel Air, MD | 1 / 47 (335.3944) | — | — | — | — |