The comeback
3 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 3 years, then back at Gladstone Smokefest (ONE MEAT RIBS) (2025-10-03).
- last seen 2022-09-16
- back 2025-10-03
Team Rhode Kill
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1479
peak 1479 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2022-04-22
latest 2022-09-16
Best ToY finish
#1083
Master 2022
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 92%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 155.97 · weakest Brisket (148.86)
Road miles
175
mi across 3 mapped stops · furthest 104 mi
Purse competed for
$25K
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
604.18 / 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.
Team Rhode Kill 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 146 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.
#4166 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1479
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#4143 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1479
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2017, 5 years before Team Rhode Kill's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#4169 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1479
No shared contest yet.
Level with Team Rhode Kill on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#4151 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1503
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#4144 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1479
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#4159 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1479
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 3 years before Team Rhode Kill'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 | 151.3484 | 150.2628 | 150.81 | top 92% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.8228 | 145.0972 | 151.37 | top 87% |
| Pork | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.8456 | 152.5028 | 155.97 | top 74% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 149.7144 | 148.0116 | 148.86 | top 92% |
“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 (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0.4 yrs
2022-04-22 → 2022-09-16
Busiest season
2022
2 contests
Contests a season
1.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
MO
3 of 3 contests
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
4 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 155.97 · weakest Brisket (148.86)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 3 contests
Master average
604.18
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
59
5–57 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
175
3 mapped stops · furthest 104 mi
Purse competed for
$24,850
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
3 yrs
2022-09-16 → 2025-10-03
Power rating
1479
peak 1479 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2022
- First tracked contest Ozarks BBQ Fest
- Career-best overall score605.0056 Ozarks BBQ Fest
- 2025
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)162.8228 Gladstone Smokefest (ONE MEAT RIBS)
- Most recent contest Gladstone Smokefest (ONE MEAT RIBS)
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% | — | — | — |
| 2022 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 92% | 84% | 83.9% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-03 | Gladstone Smokefest (ONE MEAT RIBS) Gladstone, MO | — | — | 11 (162.8228) | — | — |
| 2022-09-16 | 34th Annual Jesse James Barbeque Cook Out 🏅 Kearney, MO | 30 / 33 (603.3488) | 31 (150.2628) | 31 (148.5144) | 20 (152.5028) | 32 (148.0116) |
| 2022-04-22 | Ozarks BBQ Fest 🏅 Springfield, MO | 29 / 31 (605.0056) | 28 (151.3484) | 30 (145.0972) | 24 (158.8456) | 27 (149.7144) |
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 | — | — | #1217 (87 pts) | — | — |
| 2022 ↗ | Master | #1083 (114 pts) | #1136 (114 pts) | #1188 (114 pts) | #1100 (119 pts) | #1117 (114 pts) |