High-water mark
668.5940
career-best overall
92.9% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 668.5940 at Music City Festival & BBQ Championship — 92.9% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2013-08-23
Rub Down South
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1493
peak 1509 · rated over 3 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2013-08-23
latest 2016-08-26
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
1
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 61%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
649.45
last 3 Master vs avg 649.45 (+0.00)
Walk rate
67%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±13.82
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 169.15 · weakest Pork Ribs (156.51)
Road miles
16
mi across 3 mapped stops
Schedule strength
20%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1528)
Master avg
649.45 / 720
3 Master contests · 0 GCs
Storylines (2 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.
The comeback
2 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 2 years, then back at Franklin BBQ Festival Presented By Franklin Noon Rotary Club (2016-08-26).
- last seen 2014-08-22
- back 2016-08-26
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.
Rub Down South has 3 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 127 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.
#3491 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1503
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#3496 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
Level with Rub Down South on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3459 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2013.
⚔ Head-to-head#3480 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#3467 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1494
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#3494 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1513
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 173.7372 | 151.3600 | 163.02 | top 53% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.1084 | 147.3600 | 156.51 | top 70% |
| Pork | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 177.7372 | 159.3940 | 169.15 | top 37% |
| Brisket | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.8572 | 155.4400 | 160.77 | top 54% |
“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 84% |
| Large (40+) | 2 | 0 | top 49% |
The story so far (15 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
3 yrs
2013-08-23 → 2016-08-26
Busiest season
2016
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 3 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
TN
3 of 3 contests
Contests visited
3
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
3 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 169.15 · weakest Pork Ribs (156.51)
Walk rate
67%
a top-10 call in 2 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 3 contests
Master average
649.45
out of 720 · 3 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
107
57–67 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
16
3 mapped stops
Schedule strength
1528
average field rating faced — tougher than 20% of rated contests
Longest layoff
2 yrs
2014-08-22 → 2016-08-26
Power rating
1493
peak 1509 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2013
- First tracked contest Music City Festival & BBQ Championship
- First call Music City Festival & BBQ Championship
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score668.5940 Music City Festival & BBQ Championship
- Career-best overall score668.5940 Music City Festival & BBQ Championship
- Peak power rating (1509) Music City Festival & BBQ Championship
- 2014
- First category win (Pork) Music City BBQ Festival
- Career-best single call (Pork)177.7372 Music City BBQ Festival
- 2016
- Most recent contest Franklin BBQ Festival Presented By Franklin Noon Rotary Club
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +8.9 | Music City Festival & BBQ Championship | 2013-08-23 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -9.7 | Franklin BBQ Festival Presented By Franklin Noon Rotary Club | 2016-08-26 |
| -5.8 | Music City BBQ Festival | 2014-08-22 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 84% | 88.4% | 88.4% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 100% | top 73% | 89.3% | 89.3% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 25% | 92.9% | 92.9% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-08-26 | Franklin BBQ Festival Presented By Franklin Noon Rotary Club Franklin, TN | 26 / 31 (636.4452) | 17 (163.9772) | 29 (153.0740) | 25 (159.3940) | 19 (160.0000) |
| 2014-08-22 | Music City BBQ Festival Nashville, TN | 30 / 41 (643.3144) | 40 (151.3600) | 37 (147.3600) | 1 (177.7372) | 15 (166.8572) |
| 2013-08-23 | Music City Festival & BBQ Championship Nashville, TN | 14 / 55 (668.5940) | 4 (173.7372) | 14 (169.1084) | 15 (170.3084) | 36 (155.4400) |