High-water mark
670.8688
career-best overall
93.2% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 670.8688 at Grill Games — 93.2% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2013-08-23
Top Shelf Smoking Crew
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1523
peak 1523 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2013-08-23
latest 2013-10-18
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
1
2 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 16%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 170.03 · weakest Pork Ribs (156.29)
Road miles
22
mi across 2 mapped stops
Master avg
659.15 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs
Storylines (2 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.
Announced themselves early
5th
at their very first contest
Finished 5 of 43 at their very first tracked contest, Grill Games (2013-08-23).
- 2013-08-23
- 43-team field
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.
Top Shelf Smoking Crew 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 99 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.
#2399 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1523
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2424 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1525
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 6 years after Top Shelf Smoking Crew did, first appearing in 2019.
⚔ Head-to-head#2419 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1522
No shared contest yet.
Level with Top Shelf Smoking Crew on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2405 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1523
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2403 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1523
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2411 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 50%
- Peak
- 1523
No shared contest yet.
Their rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 6 contests, alongside a 50% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 174.3316 | 165.7256 | 170.03 | top 9% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.2972 | 154.2744 | 156.29 | top 48% |
| Pork | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 170.8228 | 165.7028 | 168.26 | top 10% |
| Brisket | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 171.4400 | 157.7144 | 164.58 | top 22% |
“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 (12 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0.2 yrs
2013-08-23 → 2013-10-18
Busiest season
2013
2 contests
Cooks most in
IL
1 of 2 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 1 win · 2 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 170.03 · weakest Pork Ribs (156.29)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 2 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
50%
1 of 2 contests
Master average
659.15
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
80
81–14 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
22
2 mapped stops
Power rating
1523
peak 1523 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2013
- First tracked contest Grill Games
- First call Grill Games
- First category win (Chicken) Grill Games
- First overall top-10 Grill Games
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score670.8688 Grill Games
- Career-best overall score670.8688 Grill Games
- Career-best single call (Chicken)174.3316 Grill Games
- Most recent contest 8th Annual Lambs Farm Barn Burner Bar-B-Q (TEAMS FULL)
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 100% | top 16% | 93.2% | 91.5% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-10-18 | 8th Annual Lambs Farm Barn Burner Bar-B-Q (TEAMS FULL) Libertyville, IL | 11 / 54 (647.4400) | 9 (165.7256) | 22 (158.2972) | 5 (165.7028) | 20 (157.7144) |
| 2013-08-23 | Grill Games Kenosha, WI | 5 / 43 (670.8688) | 1 (174.3316) | 24 (154.2744) | 5 (170.8228) | 3 (171.4400) |