High-water mark
678.8116
career-best overall
94.3% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 678.8116 at Back The Blue BBQ — 94.3% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2022-10-28
McDonald Collision
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1489
peak 1505 · rated over 3 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2022-10-28
latest 2025-10-24
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
1
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 70%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
639.66
last 3 Master vs avg 639.66 (-0.00)
Walk rate
33%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±27.73
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 164.16 · weakest Brisket (154.84)
Road miles
2
mi across 3 mapped stops
Schedule strength
42%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1555)
Purse competed for
$25K
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 3 state-championship entries
Master avg
639.66 / 720
3 Master contests · 0 GCs
Storylines (3 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
3–0
behind in the head-to-head
Big D's BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings
Big D's BBQ has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
The comeback
2 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 2 years, then back at VPD Back the Blue BBQ Competition (2025-10-24).
- last seen 2023-11-03
- back 2025-10-24
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.
McDonald Collision 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 153 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.
#3712 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#3730 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
Level with McDonald Collision on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3698 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1500
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2014, 8 years before McDonald Collision's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3697 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1489
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2022, 3 years before McDonald Collision's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3726 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1489
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 4 years before McDonald Collision's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3733 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1511
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 7 years before McDonald Collision's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.2400 | 154.8000 | 156.70 | top 78% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 178.8800 | 154.2516 | 164.16 | top 54% |
| Pork | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 176.0000 | 154.2168 | 163.95 | top 67% |
| Brisket | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.8572 | 146.2400 | 154.84 | top 76% |
“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 (17 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
3 yrs
2022-10-28 → 2025-10-24
Busiest season
2025
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 3 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
LA
3 of 3 contests
Contests visited
3
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
3 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 164.16 · weakest Brisket (154.84)
Walk rate
33%
a top-10 call in 1 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
33%
1 of 3 contests
Master average
639.66
out of 720 · 3 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
62
22–57 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
2
3 mapped stops
Schedule strength
1555
average field rating faced — tougher than 42% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$24,600
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 3 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
2 yrs
2023-11-03 → 2025-10-24
Power rating
1489
peak 1505 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2022
- First tracked contest Back The Blue BBQ
- First call Back The Blue BBQ
- First category win (Pork Ribs) Back The Blue BBQ
- First overall top-10 Back The Blue BBQ
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score678.8116 Back The Blue BBQ
- Career-best overall score678.8116 Back The Blue BBQ
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)178.8800 Back The Blue BBQ
- Peak power rating (1505) Back The Blue BBQ
- 2025
- Most recent contest VPD Back the Blue BBQ Competition
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +5.4 | Back The Blue BBQ | 2022-10-28 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -9.1 | VPD Back the Blue BBQ Competition | 2025-10-24 |
| -7.6 | VPD Back the Blue BBQ Competition | 2023-11-03 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 88% | 85.8% | 85.8% |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 81% | 86.4% | 86.4% |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 100% | top 41% | 94.3% | 94.3% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-24 | VPD Back the Blue BBQ Competition 🏅 Vidalia, LA | 29 / 33 (618.0568) | 24 (158.2400) | 23 (159.3600) | 32 (154.2168) | 32 (146.2400) |
| 2023-11-03 | VPD Back the Blue BBQ Competition 🏅 Vidalia, LA | 22 / 27 (622.1144) | 23 (154.8000) | 24 (154.2516) | 21 (161.6456) | 22 (151.4172) |
| 2022-10-28 | Back The Blue BBQ 🏅 Vidalia, LA | 9 / 22 (678.8116) | 17 (157.0744) | 1 (178.8800) | 6 (176.0000) | 11 (166.8572) |