High-water mark
683.3828
career-best overall
94.9% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 683.3828 at Grizzly BBQ Brawl — 94.9% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- Jun 26, 2026
Dino-Q
Dino-Q is a competition barbecue team with 6 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2025 and 2026. Their best overall finish is 10th of 15 at the Marietta River City BBQ (OPEN FORMAT) (2026). They finished #645 in the 2026 Master Series Team of the Year standings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1505
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 3
Contests
6
in the data
First seen
Sep 19, 2025
latest Jun 26, 2026
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
1
2 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
17% of 6 contests
Avg finish
top 50%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
67%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±8.54
spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 172.45 · weakest Brisket (163.81)
Road miles
1,216
across 6 mapped stops · furthest 552 mi
Schedule strength
51%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1566)
Purse competed for
$22K
listed at 6 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 4 state-championship entries
Master avg
674.25 / 720
3 Master contests · 0 GCs
Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 ↗ | Master | #645 (225 pts) | #499 (405 pts) | #406 (582 pts) | #761 (165 pts) | #815 (144 pts) |
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to Dino-Q, each with one reason worth a look.
Dino-Q 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 107 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#3,031 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1508
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#3,022 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
Their last contest in the data was back in 2022, 4 years before Dino-Q's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#3,019 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1505
They were already cooking in 2013, 12 years before Dino-Q's first contest.
⚔ Compare careers#3,036 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1505
Level with Dino-Q on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#3,023 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1508
Their last contest in the data was back in 2013, 13 years before Dino-Q's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#3,033 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1510
Their last contest in the data was back in 2013, 13 years before Dino-Q's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careersBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 176.5828 | 165.6800 | 171.41 | top 35% |
| Pork Ribs | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 176.5716 | 167.4172 | 172.45 | top 30% |
| Pork | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 171.4172 | 164 | 167.03 | top 58% |
| Brisket | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 172 | 154.8688 | 163.81 | top 68% |
“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
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 67% |
| Medium (20–39) | 2 | 0 | top 42% |
More numbers
Busiest season
2026
4 contests
Contests a season
2
across 3 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
MI
3 of 6 contests · 3 states in all
Contests visited
3
a different one every time
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
5 entries · 1 win · 3 calls
Opponents faced
74
finished ahead 44 times, behind 43
Longest layoff
1.8 yrs
Nov 17, 2023 → Sep 19, 2025
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20266 milestones
- First overall top-10 Marietta River City BBQ (OPEN FORMAT)
- First category win (Pork Ribs) Grizzly BBQ Brawl
- Career-best overall score683.3828 Grizzly BBQ Brawl
- Career-best single call (Chicken)176.5828 Grizzly BBQ Brawl
- Peak power rating (1505) Grizzly BBQ Brawl
- Most recent contest All American BBQ Throwdown (ONE MEAT RIBS)
20252 milestones
- First call September Fest
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score676.5144 September Fest
20231 milestone
- First tracked contest Atlanta BBQ Store Classic
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +9 | Grizzly BBQ Brawl | Jun 26, 2026 |
| +0.7 | September Fest | Sep 19, 2025 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -4.9 | Marietta River City BBQ (OPEN FORMAT) | Apr 24, 2026 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 75% | top 50% | 94.9% | 93.5% |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 50% | 94% | 94% |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 2026 | All American BBQ Throwdown (ONE MEAT RIBS) Westland, MI | — | — | 16 (170.2744) | — | — |
| Jun 26, 2026 | Grizzly BBQ Brawl 🏅 Wellington, OH | 13 / 39 (683.3828) | 3 (176.5828) | 1 (176.5716) | 25 (165.6800) | 25 (164.5484) |
| May 1, 2026 | Smoke in the Mitten (ONE MEAT RIBS) Westland, MI | — | — | 4 (176.0116) | — | — |
| Apr 24, 2026 | Marietta River City BBQ (OPEN FORMAT) 🏅 Marietta, OH | 10 / 15 (662.8460) | 5 (171.9772) | 4 (172) | 13 (164) | 17 (154.8688) |
| Sep 19, 2025 | September Fest 🏅 Coldwater, MI | 13 / 26 (676.5144) | 17 (165.6800) | 14 (167.4172) | 6 (171.4172) | 7 (172) |
| Nov 17, 2023 | Atlanta BBQ Store Classic 🏅 Cumming, GA | — | — | — | — | — |