High-water mark
682.1940
career-best overall
94.7% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 682.1940 at Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff — 94.7% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- Sep 13, 2024
360 BBQ
360 BBQ is a competition barbecue team with 5 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2024 and 2025. Their best overall finish is 16th of 67 at the Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff (2024). They finished #684 in the 2024 Master Series Team of the Year standings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1495
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 31 invitational or side-series contest not counted
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
Sep 13, 2024
latest Sep 12, 2025 · 1 year on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
0% of 5 contests
Avg finish
top 67%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
20%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±17.56
spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 172.15 · weakest Brisket (157.67)
Road miles
1,262
across 5 mapped stops · furthest 631 mi
Schedule strength
38%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1550)
Purse competed for
$213K
listed at 5 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 3 state-championship entries
Master avg
661.20 / 720
4 Master contests · 0 GCs
Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to 360 BBQ, each with one reason worth a look.
360 BBQ has 3 rated contests, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 121 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#3,451 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1494
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#3,448 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1494
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 4 years before 360 BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#3,431 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1495
They were already cooking in 2018, 6 years before 360 BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Compare careers#3,437 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1506
Level with 360 BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#3,441 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1505
Careers of much the same size, 6 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#3,428 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 14%
- Peak
- 1514
Careers of much the same size, 7 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careersBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.8228 | 158.2744 | 163.83 | top 72% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 176.5716 | 165.7600 | 172.15 | top 31% |
| Pork | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.7144 | 165.6684 | 167.55 | top 58% |
| Brisket | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.3828 | 146.7884 | 157.67 | top 76% |
“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
Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff | 2 | 16 | 0 | top 53% | Sep 12, 2025 |
More numbers
Busiest season
2024
4 contests
Contests a season
2.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
KS
3 of 5 contests · 2 states in all
Contests visited
3
1 of them more than once
Opponents faced
534
finished ahead 192 times, behind 576
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20251 milestone
- Most recent contest Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff
20246 milestones
- First tracked contest Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff
- First call Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score682.1940 Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff
- Career-best overall score682.1940 Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff
- Peak power rating (1510) Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)176.5716 American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +9.9 | Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff | Sep 13, 2024 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -9.1 | Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff | Sep 12, 2025 |
| -6.3 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest | Oct 30, 2024 |
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 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 83% | 88.8% | 88.8% |
| 2024 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25% | top 61% | 94.7% | 92.8% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 12, 2025 | Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff 🏅 Waller, TX | 76 / 92 (639.3828) | 77 (158.2744) | 55 (165.7600) | 39 (168.5600) | 85 (146.7884) |
| 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 | 352 / 444 (649.0396) | 352 (162.2744) | 174 (170.8456) | 289 (165.6684) | 402 (150.2512) |
| Oct 30, 2024 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest unrated Kansas City, KS | 136 / 169 (674.1828) | 156 (163.9540) | 21 (176.5716) | 139 (166.2744) | 132 (167.3828) |
| Sep 13, 2024 | Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff 🏅 Waller, TX | 16 / 67 (682.1940) | 23 (170.8228) | 8 (175.4056) | 29 (169.7144) | 28 (166.2512) |
An unrated contest — an invitational, or a Competitor or Kosher Series board — is in the record but doesn’t move the power rating.