Announced themselves early
4th
at their very first contest
Finished 4 of 32 at their very first tracked contest, Tony Stone Low & Slow BBQ Competition (2013-05-18).
- 2013-05-18
- 32-team field
DON MARCO'S BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1517
peak 1517 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2013-05-18
latest 2016-05-14
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 25%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 167.44 · weakest Brisket (157.10)
Road miles
20
mi across 2 mapped stops
Master avg
649.09 / 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.
DON MARCO'S 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 93 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.
#2574 of the rated field
- Contests
- 18
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 22%
- Peak
- 1556
0–1 in 1 shared contest (0% to DON MARCO'S BBQ)
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team DON MARCO'S BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head#2567 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1524
No shared contest yet.
6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where DON MARCO'S BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head#2562 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1527
No shared contest yet.
Level with DON MARCO'S BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2561 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1518
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 8 years after DON MARCO'S BBQ did, first appearing in 2021.
⚔ Head-to-head#2564 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1533
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2556 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1526
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 171.9884 | 154.2854 | 163.14 | top 39% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 167.4516 | 167.4288 | 167.44 | top 22% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.3828 | 155.4284 | 161.41 | top 50% |
| Brisket | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 167.4284 | 146.7772 | 157.10 | top 49% |
“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 13% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 37% |
The story so far (14 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
3 yrs
2013-05-18 → 2016-05-14
Busiest season
2016
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
NL
1 of 2 contests
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 167.44 · weakest Brisket (157.10)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 2 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
50%
1 of 2 contests
Master average
649.09
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
88
69–26 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
20
2 mapped stops
Longest layoff
3 yrs
2013-05-18 → 2016-05-14
Power rating
1517
peak 1517 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2013
- First tracked contest Tony Stone Low & Slow BBQ Competition
- First call Tony Stone Low & Slow BBQ Competition
- First overall top-10 Tony Stone Low & Slow BBQ Competition
- 2016
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score653.6000 Tony Stone Low & Slow BBQ Competition
- Career-best overall score653.6000 Tony Stone Low & Slow BBQ Competition
- Career-best single call (Chicken)171.9884 Tony Stone Low & Slow BBQ Competition
- Most recent contest Tony Stone Low & Slow BBQ Competition
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 | 100% | top 37% | 90.8% | 90.8% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 13% | 89.5% | 89.5% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-05-14 | Tony Stone Low & Slow BBQ Competition Hoofddorp Netherlands, NL | 24 / 65 (653.6000) | 10 (171.9884) | 18 (167.4516) | 26 (167.3828) | 58 (146.7772) |
| 2013-05-18 | Tony Stone Low & Slow BBQ Competition Hoofddorp, Netherlands, | 4 / 32 (644.5710) | 20 (154.2854) | 5 (167.4288) | 19 (155.4284) | 3 (167.4284) |