High-water mark
676.5028
career-best overall
94.0% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 676.5028 at V. I Love Smoky Exhibition and BBQ Competition — 94.0% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2025-10-11
Sze-Do BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1485
peak 1485 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2024-05-18
latest 2025-10-11
Best ToY finish
#1018
Master 2025
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 81%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 168.26 · weakest Brisket (150.83)
Road miles
309
mi across 2 mapped stops
Master avg
648.19 / 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.
Sze-Do 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 154 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.
#3890 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1485
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3881 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
Level with Sze-Do BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3879 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2016, 8 years before Sze-Do BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3911 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3902 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1485
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3888 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1485
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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.9656 | 157.6684 | 162.82 | top 86% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 174.8572 | 157.7140 | 166.29 | top 51% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 169.1428 | 167.3828 | 168.26 | top 56% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2972 | 135.3600 | 150.83 | top 79% |
“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 (13 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1.4 yrs
2024-05-18 → 2025-10-11
Busiest season
2025
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 168.26 · weakest Brisket (150.83)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 2 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 2 contests
Master average
648.19
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
35
8–33 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
309
2 mapped stops
Longest layoff
1.4 yrs
2024-05-18 → 2025-10-11
Power rating
1485
peak 1485 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2024
- First tracked contest Muehlviertler BBQ Festival
- First call Muehlviertler BBQ Festival
- 2025
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score676.5028 V. I Love Smoky Exhibition and BBQ Competition
- Career-best overall score676.5028 V. I Love Smoky Exhibition and BBQ Competition
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)174.8572 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)
Team of the Year rank by season
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 | 100% | top 71% | 94% | 94% |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 91% | 86.1% | 86.1% |
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 | 15 / 21 (676.5028) | 18 (167.9656) | 5 (174.8572) | 14 (167.3828) | 12 (166.2972) |
| 2024-05-18 | Muehlviertler BBQ Festival Freistadt, Os 4240 | 20 / 22 (619.8852) | 19 (157.6684) | 17 (157.7140) | 10 (169.1428) | 22 (135.3600) |
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 | #1018 (96 pts) | #1143 (81 pts) | #874 (171 pts) | #1055 (101 pts) | #1007 (111 pts) |
| 2024 ↗ | Master | #1127 (72 pts) | #1184 (77 pts) | #1203 (87 pts) | #931 (122 pts) | #1196 (62 pts) |