High-water mark
677.0396
career-best overall
94.0% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 677.0396 at Carnivore Carnival (COMPETITOR SERIES) — 94.0% of a perfect 720.
- Competitor Series
- Oct 3, 2025
Aces Wild
Aces Wild is a competition barbecue team with 8 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2022 and 2025. Their best overall finish is 6th of 14 at the Carnivore Carnival (COMPETITOR SERIES) (2025).
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1489
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 41 invitational or side-series contest not counted
Contests
8
in the data
First seen
Feb 5, 2022
latest Oct 3, 2025 · 3.7 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
3 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
25% of 8 contests
Avg finish
top 63%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
25%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±12.29
spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 168.13 · weakest Brisket (153.23)
Road miles
1,535
across 8 mapped stops · furthest 1,489 mi
Schedule strength
57%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1572)
Purse competed for
$163K
listed at 5 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 4 state-championship entries
Master avg
652.87 / 720
4 Master contests · 0 GCs
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to Aces Wild, each with one reason worth a look.
Aces Wild has 4 rated contests, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 160 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#3,667 of the rated field
- Contests
- 8
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 13%
- Peak
- 1502
1–0 in 1 shared contest (100% to Aces Wild)
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Aces Wild has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head#3,705 of the rated field
- Contests
- 22
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 23%
- Peak
- 1551
1–0 in 1 shared contest (100% to Aces Wild)
They've been 1551 at their best, 61 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-head#3,673 of the rated field
- Contests
- 28
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1525
2–1 in 3 shared contests (67% to Aces Wild)
28 contests to 8: their number has had years to settle where Aces Wild's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head#3,688 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1504
They were already cooking in 2015, 7 years before Aces Wild's first contest.
⚔ Compare careers#3,669 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1502
Level with Aces Wild on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#3,718 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1489
Their last contest in the data was back in 2022, 3 years before Aces Wild's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careersBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 175.4056 | 159.9428 | 167.63 | top 52% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 174.8688 | 158.2516 | 168.13 | top 46% |
| Pork | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 174.8572 | 161.6684 | 167.64 | top 47% |
| Brisket | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.7028 | 144.4800 | 153.23 | top 77% |
“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 field size and state
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 43% |
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 41% |
| Large (40+) | 3 | 0 | top 77% |
Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest | 2 | 315 | 0 | top 75% | Sep 27, 2023 |
More numbers
Busiest season
2022
3 contests
Contests a season
2
across 4 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
KS
6 of 8 contests · 3 states in all
Contests visited
4
1 of them more than once
Opponents faced
817
finished ahead 353 times, behind 1,113
Longest layoff
1.1 yrs
Sep 27, 2023 → Oct 30, 2024
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20253 milestones
- Career-best overall score677.0396 Carnivore Carnival (COMPETITOR SERIES)
- Career-best single call (Chicken)175.4056 Carnivore Carnival (COMPETITOR SERIES)
- Most recent contest Carnivore Carnival (COMPETITOR SERIES)
20225 milestones
- First tracked contest Outdoor Cooking BBQ Championship
- First call Outdoor Cooking BBQ Championship
- First overall top-10 Outdoor Cooking BBQ Championship
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score667.3600 Outdoor Cooking BBQ Championship
- Peak power rating (1505) Outdoor Cooking BBQ Championship
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +4.5 | Outdoor Cooking BBQ Championship | Feb 5, 2022 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -7.7 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - OPEN CONTEST | Sep 29, 2022 |
| -6.4 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest | Oct 30, 2024 |
| -1 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest | Sep 27, 2023 |
Scores over time (% of a perfect score — tap a meat to add it)
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 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 43% | 94% | 94% |
| 2024 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 81% | 89.7% | 89.7% |
| 2023 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 65% | 91.9% | 91.9% |
| 2022 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 33% | top 63% | 92.7% | 90.5% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 3, 2025 | Carnivore Carnival (COMPETITOR SERIES) unrated Platte City, MO | 6 / 14 (677.0396) | 3 (175.4056) | — | 3 (174.8572) | — |
| Oct 30, 2024 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Sides Kansas City, KS | — | — | — | — | — |
| Oct 30, 2024 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 361 / 444 (646.1604) | 140 (173.1200) | 388 (158.2516) | 175 (170.3088) | 422 (144.4800) |
| Sep 27, 2023 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Sides Kansas City, KS | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sep 27, 2023 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 315 / 487 (661.6224) | 338 (164.5484) | 216 (169.7028) | 357 (161.6684) | 269 (165.7028) |
| Oct 1, 2022 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - SIDES Kansas City, KS | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sep 29, 2022 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - OPEN CONTEST 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 427 / 505 (636.3540) | 412 (159.9428) | 186 (169.7028) | 369 (161.6684) | 475 (145.0400) |
| Feb 5, 2022 | Outdoor Cooking BBQ Championship 🏅 Puyallup, WA | 9 / 22 (667.3600) | 12 (165.1312) | 3 (174.8688) | 6 (169.6800) | 14 (157.6800) |
An unrated contest — an invitational, or a Competitor or Kosher Series board — is in the record but doesn’t move the power rating.