High-water mark
663.8856
career-best overall
92.2% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 663.8856 at Eastern Carolina BBQ Throw Down — 92.2% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2013-10-11
Prime Barbecue
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1519
peak 1519 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2013-06-21
latest 2013-10-11
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 24%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 167.71 · weakest Pork (163.39)
Road miles
61
mi across 2 mapped stops
Master avg
663.09 / 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.
Prime Barbecue 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 87 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.
#2518 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1519
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2523 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1526
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 10 years after Prime Barbecue did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-head#2524 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1519
No shared contest yet.
Level with Prime Barbecue on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2526 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1519
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2529 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1532
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2522 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1524
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 | 171.4172 | 164.0002 | 167.71 | top 30% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 172.0000 | 159.4288 | 165.71 | top 31% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 171.4286 | 155.3600 | 163.39 | top 46% |
| Brisket | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 167.4284 | 165.1084 | 166.27 | top 26% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 31% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 18% |
The story so far (12 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0.3 yrs
2013-06-21 → 2013-10-11
Busiest season
2013
2 contests
Cooks most in
NC
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 167.71 · weakest Pork (163.39)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 2 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
50%
1 of 2 contests
Master average
663.09
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
79
70–19 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
61
2 mapped stops
Power rating
1519
peak 1519 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2013
- First tracked contest Peak City Pig Fest
- First call Peak City Pig Fest
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score662.2860 Peak City Pig Fest
- First overall top-10 Eastern Carolina BBQ Throw Down
- Career-best overall score663.8856 Eastern Carolina BBQ Throw Down
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)172.0000 Eastern Carolina BBQ Throw Down
- Most recent contest Eastern Carolina BBQ Throw Down
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 | 0 | 100% | top 24% | 92.2% | 92.1% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-10-11 | Eastern Carolina BBQ Throw Down Rocky Mount, NC | 10 / 55 (663.8856) | 6 (171.4172) | 3 (172.0000) | 45 (155.3600) | 18 (165.1084) |
| 2013-06-21 | Peak City Pig Fest Apex, NC | 11 / 36 (662.2860) | 18 (164.0002) | 20 (159.4288) | 4 (171.4286) | 7 (167.4284) |