High-water mark
674.1944
career-best overall
93.6% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 674.1944 at MD State BBQ Bash — 93.6% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2024-10-11
Hot and Slow BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1498
peak 1502 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2024-10-11
latest 2025-10-10
Best ToY finish
#703
Master 2026
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 70%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 168.83 · weakest Brisket (159.10)
Road miles
0
mi across 2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$25K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
659.29 / 720
2 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.
Looking over their shoulder
2×
one call behind them
Pool Crew BBQ 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.
Hot and Slow 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 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.
#3297 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1514
2–0 in 2 shared contests (100% to Hot and Slow BBQ)
2 contests in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Hot and Slow BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head#3295 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3285 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 7 years before Hot and Slow BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3288 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1509
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2015, 9 years before Hot and Slow BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3301 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
Level with Hot and Slow BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3296 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 8 years before Hot and Slow BBQ'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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 173.1200 | 164.5372 | 168.83 | top 63% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2400 | 160.5144 | 163.38 | top 74% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 173.7144 | 162.2512 | 167.98 | top 47% |
| Brisket | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 169.7028 | 148.5028 | 159.10 | top 67% |
“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.
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MD State BBQ Bash | 2 | 15 | 0 | top 70% | 2025-10-10 |
The story so far (15 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1 yrs
2024-10-11 → 2025-10-10
Busiest season
2025
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
MD
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
1
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 168.83 · weakest Brisket (159.10)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 1 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 2 contests
Master average
659.29
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
93
51–74 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
0
2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$25,000
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Power rating
1498
peak 1502 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2024
- First tracked contest MD State BBQ Bash
- First call MD State BBQ Bash
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score674.1944 MD State BBQ Bash
- Career-best overall score674.1944 MD State BBQ Bash
- Career-best single call (Pork)173.7144 MD State BBQ Bash
- 2025
- Most recent contest MD State BBQ Bash
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 | 0% | top 83% | 89.5% | 89.5% |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 58% | 93.6% | 93.6% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-10 | MD State BBQ Bash 🏅 Bel Air, MD | 24 / 29 (644.3884) | 13 (173.1200) | 24 (160.5144) | 23 (162.2512) | 29 (148.5028) |
| 2024-10-11 | MD State BBQ Bash 🏅 Bel Air, MD | 15 / 26 (674.1944) | 21 (164.5372) | 17 (166.2400) | 4 (173.7144) | 9 (169.7028) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 ↗ | Master | #703 (140 pts) | #515 (320 pts) | #877 (120 pts) | #568 (250 pts) | #485 (320 pts) |
| 2025 ↗ | Master | #1394 (59 pts) | #1021 (114 pts) | #1501 (59 pts) | #1177 (64 pts) | #1469 (54 pts) |
| 2024 ↗ | Master | #1006 (101 pts) | #1205 (71 pts) | #1187 (91 pts) | #764 (201 pts) | #881 (136 pts) |