High-water mark
689.6804
career-best overall
95.8% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 689.6804 at 8th Annual DuPont BBQ Competition — 95.8% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2025-08-16
Moose & Gator BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1500
peak 1500 · rated over 3 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2025-05-24
latest 2026-08-22
Best ToY finish
#697
Master 2025
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 58%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
673.24
last 3 Master vs avg 673.24 (+0.00)
Walk rate
67%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±14.62
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 172.17 · weakest Brisket (163.60)
Road miles
267
mi across 3 mapped stops · furthest 267 mi
Schedule strength
28%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1538)
Purse competed for
$55K
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 3 state-championship entries
Master avg
673.24 / 720
3 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.
A tough matchup
3–0
behind in the head-to-head
RJs Smokehouse ahead in 100% of their meetings
RJs Smokehouse has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
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.
Moose & Gator BBQ 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 125 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.
#3198 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1500
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#3205 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2020, 5 years before Moose & Gator BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3199 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
Level with Moose & Gator BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3207 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1500
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 5 years before Moose & Gator BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3206 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 5 years before Moose & Gator BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3218 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 5 years before Moose & Gator BBQ'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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 174.2628 | 166.2284 | 169.30 | top 51% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 177.7144 | 167.3828 | 172.17 | top 39% |
| Pork | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.6800 | 166.2628 | 168.16 | top 61% |
| Brisket | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 174.8800 | 150.2516 | 163.60 | top 61% |
“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 (17 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1.2 yrs
2025-05-24 → 2026-08-22
Busiest season
2025
2 contests
Contests a season
1.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
WA
2 of 3 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
3
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
3 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 172.17 · weakest Brisket (163.60)
Walk rate
67%
a top-10 call in 2 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
33%
1 of 3 contests
Master average
673.24
out of 720 · 3 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
55
36–44 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
267
3 mapped stops · furthest 267 mi
Schedule strength
1538
average field rating faced — tougher than 28% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$54,500
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 3 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
1 yrs
2025-08-16 → 2026-08-22
Power rating
1500
peak 1500 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2025
- First tracked contest BBQ, Blues & Brews on the Bay
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score654.1600 BBQ, Blues & Brews on the Bay
- First call 8th Annual DuPont BBQ Competition
- First overall top-10 8th Annual DuPont BBQ Competition
- Career-best overall score689.6804 8th Annual DuPont BBQ Competition
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)177.7144 8th Annual DuPont BBQ Competition
- 2026
- Peak power rating (1500) 9th Annual DuPont BBQ Competition
- Most recent contest 9th Annual DuPont BBQ Competition
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +7.8 | 8th Annual DuPont BBQ Competition | 2025-08-16 |
| +0.7 | 9th Annual DuPont BBQ Competition | 2026-08-22 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -8.9 | BBQ, Blues & Brews on the Bay | 2025-05-24 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 56% | 93.9% | 93.9% |
| 2025 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 50% | top 59% | 95.8% | 93.3% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-22 | 9th Annual DuPont BBQ Competition 🏅 DuPont, WA | 15 / 27 (675.8740) | 4 (174.2628) | 18 (167.3828) | 16 (168.5484) | 18 (165.6800) |
| 2025-08-16 | 8th Annual DuPont BBQ Competition 🏅 DuPont, WA | 10 / 30 (689.6804) | 21 (167.4060) | 2 (177.7144) | 15 (169.6800) | 5 (174.8800) |
| 2025-05-24 | BBQ, Blues & Brews on the Bay 🏅 North Bend, OR | 22 / 26 (654.1600) | 18 (166.2284) | 11 (171.4172) | 19 (166.2628) | 26 (150.2516) |
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 | #697 (196 pts) | #856 (161 pts) | #565 (376 pts) | #758 (186 pts) | #671 (231 pts) |