Announced themselves early
4th
at their very first contest
Finished 4 of 8 at their very first tracked contest, Italian Barbecue Championship (2014-06-14).
- 2014-06-14
- 8-team field
MAD FOR BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1492
peak 1502 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2014-06-14
latest 2015-01-16
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
1
2 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 67%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 164.29 · weakest Chicken (152.86)
Road miles
268
mi across 2 mapped stops
Master avg
630.29 / 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.
MAD FOR 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 137 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.
#3556 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1512
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3538 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1492
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 11 years after MAD FOR BBQ did, first appearing in 2025.
⚔ Head-to-head#3559 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
Level with MAD FOR BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3551 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3522 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where MAD FOR BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head#3537 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 155.3944 | 150.3316 | 152.86 | top 77% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 163.4400 | 156.5716 | 160.01 | top 42% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 169.1428 | 159.4400 | 164.29 | top 44% |
| Brisket | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 158.2972 | 147.9656 | 153.13 | top 81% |
“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 contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 50% |
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 83% |
The story so far (12 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0.6 yrs
2014-06-14 → 2015-01-16
Busiest season
2015
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 · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 164.29 · weakest Chicken (152.86)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 1 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
50%
1 of 2 contests
Master average
630.29
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
29
8–22 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
268
2 mapped stops
Power rating
1492
peak 1502 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2014
- First tracked contest Italian Barbecue Championship
- First call Italian Barbecue Championship
- First category win (Pork) Italian Barbecue Championship
- First overall top-10 Italian Barbecue Championship
- Career-best overall score635.9428 Italian Barbecue Championship
- Career-best single call (Pork)169.1428 Italian Barbecue Championship
- 2015
- Most recent contest 1st W.E.S.T - Winter Extreme South Tyrol
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 83% | 86.8% | 86.8% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 100% | top 50% | 88.3% | 88.3% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-01-16 | 1st W.E.S.T - Winter Extreme South Tyrol Rein in Taufers, | 20 / 24 (624.6404) | 22 (150.3316) | 14 (156.5716) | 18 (159.4400) | 15 (158.2972) |
| 2014-06-14 | Italian Barbecue Championship Perugia Italy, | 4 / 8 (635.9428) | 5 (155.3944) | 2 (163.4400) | 1 (169.1428) | 8 (147.9656) |