#3246 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1508
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headMax Q
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1499
peak 1512 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2014-05-09
latest 2015-05-08
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 57%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 154.29 · weakest Brisket (146.56)
Road miles
0
mi across 2 mapped stops
Master avg
604.31 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs
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.
Max Q 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 126 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.
#3236 of the rated field
- Contests
- 9
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 11%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
Level with Max Q on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3261 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1499
No shared contest yet.
Their rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 6 contests, alongside a 17% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-head#3245 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3234 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1499
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3266 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1503
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 7 years after Max Q did, first appearing in 2021.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 171.4400 | 137.1428 | 154.29 | top 53% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 164.0228 | 142.2972 | 153.16 | top 52% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 152.5944 | 148.0116 | 150.30 | top 68% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.8344 | 134.2860 | 146.56 | top 63% |
“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 yrs
2014-05-09 → 2015-05-08
Busiest season
2015
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
PA
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 154.29 · weakest Brisket (146.56)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 1 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
50%
1 of 2 contests
Master average
604.31
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
73
46–61 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
0
2 mapped stops
Power rating
1499
peak 1512 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2014
- First tracked contest Smoke in the Valley BBQ Competition
- First call Smoke in the Valley BBQ Competition
- First overall top-10 Smoke in the Valley BBQ Competition
- Career-best overall score642.3088 Smoke in the Valley BBQ Competition
- Career-best single call (Chicken)171.4400 Smoke in the Valley BBQ Competition
- 2015
- Most recent contest Smoke in the Valley BBQ Competition & Festival
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 96% | 78.7% | 78.7% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 17% | 89.2% | 89.2% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-05-08 | Smoke in the Valley BBQ Competition & Festival Green Lane, PA | 55 / 57 (566.3204) | 57 (137.1428) | 51 (142.2972) | 39 (152.5944) | 54 (134.2860) |
| 2014-05-09 | Smoke in the Valley BBQ Competition Green Lane, PA | 9 / 54 (642.3088) | 3 (171.4400) | 8 (164.0228) | 36 (148.0116) | 17 (158.8344) |