High-water mark
700.5944
career-best overall
97.3% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 700.5944 at Bulgarian Barbecue Championship — 97.3% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2025-09-12
Rusty grill
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1516
peak 1516 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2025-09-12
latest 2025-10-11
Best ToY finish
#513
Master 2025
Grand champs
0
1 reserve
Category wins
2
3 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 33%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Top-10 streak
2
and counting
Strongest meat
Brisket
avg 176.56 · weakest Pork (166.82)
Road miles
391
mi across 3 mapped stops
Master avg
690.25 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs
Still inside their first twelve months: see what a first season usually looks like.
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.
Announced themselves early
2nd
at their very first contest
Finished 2 of 11 at their very first tracked contest, Bulgarian Barbecue Championship (2025-09-12).
- 2025-09-12
- 11-team field
Looking over their shoulder
2×
one call behind them
Smoke and Beer team has landed one call behind them 2 times.
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.
Rusty grill 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 86 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 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#2617 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2013, 12 years before Rusty grill's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#2620 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1526
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 4 years before Rusty grill's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2616 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
Level with Rusty grill on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2621 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 100%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
6 straight overall top-10s says this rating is a moving target.
⚔ Head-to-head#2635 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1519
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 6 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 177.7372 | 173.1656 | 175.45 | top 37% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 177.7372 | 161.7256 | 168.18 | top 56% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 173.1316 | 160.5144 | 166.82 | top 66% |
| Brisket | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 176.5600 | 176.5600 | 176.56 | top 11% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 18% |
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 48% |
The story so far (12 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0.1 yrs
2025-09-12 → 2025-10-11
Busiest season
2025
3 contests
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
3 entries · 1 win · 2 calls
Strongest meat
Brisket
averages 176.56 · weakest Pork (166.82)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 3 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
67%
2 of 3 contests
Best top-10 run
2
straight contests — and still running
Master average
690.25
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
26
20–10 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
391
3 mapped stops
Power rating
1516
peak 1516 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2025
- First tracked contest Bulgarian Barbecue Championship
- First call Bulgarian Barbecue Championship
- First category win (Pork Ribs) Bulgarian Barbecue Championship
- First overall top-10 Bulgarian Barbecue Championship
- First overall podium Bulgarian Barbecue Championship
- First Reserve Championship Bulgarian Barbecue Championship
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score700.5944 Bulgarian Barbecue Championship
- Career-best overall score700.5944 Bulgarian Barbecue Championship
- Career-best single call (Chicken)177.7372 V. I Love Smoky Exhibition and BBQ Competition
- Most recent contest V. I Love Smoky Exhibition and 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 100% | top 33% | 97.3% | 95.9% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-11 | V. I Love Smoky Exhibition and BBQ Competition Szerencs, 3900 | 10 / 21 (679.8972) | 4 (177.7372) | 17 (165.0856) | 18 (160.5144) | 1 (176.5600) |
| 2025-10-11 | V. I Love Smoky Exhibition and BBQ Competition (ONE MEAT RIBS) Szerencs, 3900 | — | — | 7 (161.7256) | — | — |
| 2025-09-12 | Bulgarian Barbecue Championship Sofia, 1000 | 2 / 11 (700.5944) | 6 (173.1656) | 1 (177.7372) | 5 (173.1316) | 2 (176.5600) |
Career map (orange GC · green top-10 · grey the rest — tap a pin)
Team of the Year standings (rank per category by season — year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 ↗ | Master | #513 (357 pts) | #569 (347 pts) | #474 (486 pts) | #672 (242 pts) | #429 (507 pts) |