High-water mark
677.7032
career-best overall
94.1% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 677.7032 at Rock N Hogs BBQ Battle — 94.1% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2025-08-23
Black Bobby Flay
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1486
peak 1505 · rated over 3 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2023-05-27
latest 2025-08-23
Best ToY finish
#606
Master 2023
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
1
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 70%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
611.42
last 3 Master vs avg 611.42 (-0.00)
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±83.05
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 170.69 · weakest Brisket (161.69)
Road miles
32
mi across 3 mapped stops
Schedule strength
20%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1527)
Master avg
611.42 / 720
3 Master contests · 0 GCs
Storylines (3 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.
A tough matchup
3–0
behind in the head-to-head
MEAN MOE'S BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings
MEAN MOE'S BBQ has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
The comeback
2 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 2 years, then back at Jack9 Memorial BBQ Competition (2025-05-24).
- last seen 2023-05-27
- back 2025-05-24
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.
Black Bobby Flay has 3 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 146 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.
#3821 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1486
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#3820 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1486
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 6 years before Black Bobby Flay's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3841 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2016, 7 years before Black Bobby Flay's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3828 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1486
No shared contest yet.
Level with Black Bobby Flay on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3836 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1501
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 7 years before Black Bobby Flay's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3852 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 8 years before Black Bobby Flay's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 175.4172 | 158.3084 | 166.29 | top 45% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 169.1428 | 169.1428 | 169.14 | top 43% |
| Pork | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 176.6172 | 166.3088 | 170.69 | top 33% |
| Brisket | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.8344 | 158.8460 | 161.69 | top 70% |
“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 42% |
| Medium (20–39) | 2 | 0 | top 84% |
The story so far (15 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
2.2 yrs
2023-05-27 → 2025-08-23
Busiest season
2025
2 contests
Contests a season
1.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
ON
3 of 3 contests
Contests visited
3
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
3 entries · 0 wins · 2 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 170.69 · weakest Brisket (161.69)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 3 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
33%
1 of 3 contests
Master average
611.42
out of 720 · 3 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
38
18–46 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
32
3 mapped stops
Schedule strength
1527
average field rating faced — tougher than 20% of rated contests
Longest layoff
2 yrs
2023-05-27 → 2025-05-24
Power rating
1486
peak 1505 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2023
- First tracked contest Jack 9 Memorial
- First call Jack 9 Memorial
- First overall top-10 Jack 9 Memorial
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score662.2628 Jack 9 Memorial
- Peak power rating (1505) Jack 9 Memorial
- 2025
- First category win (Pork) Jack9 Memorial BBQ Competition
- Career-best single call (Pork)176.6172 Jack9 Memorial BBQ Competition
- Career-best overall score677.7032 Rock N Hogs BBQ Battle
- Most recent contest Rock N Hogs BBQ Battle
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +4.6 | Jack 9 Memorial | 2023-05-27 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -15.1 | Jack9 Memorial BBQ Competition | 2025-05-24 |
| -3.4 | Rock N Hogs BBQ Battle | 2025-08-23 |
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)
Team of the Year rank by season
Season by season
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 100% | top 84% | 94.1% | 81.4% |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 42% | 92% | 92% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-08-23 | Rock N Hogs BBQ Battle London, ON | 15 / 22 (677.7032) | 5 (175.4172) | 13 (169.1428) | 15 (166.3088) | 18 (166.8344) |
| 2025-05-24 | Jack9 Memorial BBQ Competition La Salette, ON | 26 / 26 (494.3084) | 18 (158.3084) | — | 1 (176.6172) | 17 (159.3828) |
| 2023-05-27 | Jack 9 Memorial La Salette, ON | 8 / 19 (662.2628) | 8 (165.1428) | 5 (169.1428) | 5 (169.1312) | 12 (158.8460) |
Career map (orange GC · green top-10 · grey the rest — tap a pin)
Team of the Year standings (rank per category by season — year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 ↗ | Master | #797 (148 pts) | #680 (258 pts) | #1130 (107 pts) | #512 (373 pts) | #795 (173 pts) |
| 2023 ↗ | Master | #606 (274 pts) | #724 (234 pts) | #570 (384 pts) | #588 (314 pts) | #738 (224 pts) |