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
- 2026-06-26
Dino-Q
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1505
peak 1505 · rated over 3 contests ⓘ
Contests
6
in the data
First seen
2025-09-19
latest 2026-06-26
Best ToY finish
#574
Master 2026
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
1
2 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 6 contests
Avg finish
top 50%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
674.25
last 3 Master vs avg 674.25 (+0.00)
Walk rate
67%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±8.54
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 172.45 · weakest Brisket (163.81)
Road miles
1,216
mi across 6 mapped stops · furthest 552 mi
Schedule strength
52%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1566)
Purse competed for
$22K
listed at 6 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 4 state-championship entries
Master avg
674.25 / 720
3 Master contests · 0 GCs
Still inside their first twelve months: see what a first season usually looks like.
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
Team Cookie ahead in 100% of their meetings
Team Cookie has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
The comeback
1.8 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 1.8 years, then back at September Fest (2025-09-19).
- last seen 2023-11-17
- back 2025-09-19
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.
Dino-Q 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 107 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.
#3015 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1508
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#3010 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 2022, 4 years before Dino-Q's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3022 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2013, 12 years before Dino-Q's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3007 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1508
No shared contest yet.
Level with Dino-Q on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3019 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1510
No shared contest yet.
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.
⚔ Head-to-head#3013 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1509
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 6 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-headBy 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 | 164.0000 | 167.03 | top 58% |
| Brisket | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 172.0000 | 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 state / province
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| OH | 2 | 0 | top 50% |
| MI | 1 | 0 | top 50% |
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 67% |
| Medium (20–39) | 2 | 0 | top 42% |
The story so far (17 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0.8 yrs
2025-09-19 → 2026-06-26
Busiest season
2026
4 contests
Contests a season
2
across 3 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
MI
3 of 6 contests · 3 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
3
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
5 entries · 1 win · 3 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 172.45 · weakest Brisket (163.81)
Walk rate
67%
a top-10 call in 4 of 6 contests
Overall top-10 rate
17%
1 of 6 contests
Master average
674.25
out of 720 · 3 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
74
44–43 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
1,216
6 mapped stops · furthest 552 mi
Schedule strength
1566
average field rating faced — tougher than 52% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$22,320
listed at 6 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 4 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
1.8 yrs
2023-11-17 → 2025-09-19
Power rating
1505
peak 1505 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2023
- First tracked contest Atlanta BBQ Store Classic
- 2025
- First call September Fest
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score676.5144 September Fest
- 2026
- 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)
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +9 | Grizzly BBQ Brawl | 2026-06-26 |
| +0.7 | September Fest | 2025-09-19 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -4.9 | Marietta River City BBQ (OPEN FORMAT) | 2026-04-24 |
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-31 | All American BBQ Throwdown (ONE MEAT RIBS) Westland, MI | — | — | 16 (170.2744) | — | — |
| 2026-06-26 | Grizzly BBQ Brawl 🏅 Wellington, OH | 13 / 39 (683.3828) | 3 (176.5828) | 1 (176.5716) | 25 (165.6800) | 25 (164.5484) |
| 2026-05-01 | Smoke in the Mitten (ONE MEAT RIBS) Westland, MI | — | — | 4 (176.0116) | — | — |
| 2026-04-24 | Marietta River City BBQ (OPEN FORMAT) 🏅 Marietta, OH | 10 / 15 (662.8460) | 5 (171.9772) | 4 (172.0000) | 13 (164.0000) | 17 (154.8688) |
| 2025-09-19 | September Fest 🏅 Coldwater, MI | 13 / 26 (676.5144) | 17 (165.6800) | 14 (167.4172) | 6 (171.4172) | 7 (172.0000) |
| 2023-11-17 | Atlanta BBQ Store Classic 🏅 Cumming, GA | — | — | — | — | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 ↗ | Master | #574 (225 pts) | #438 (405 pts) | #347 (582 pts) | #679 (165 pts) | #726 (144 pts) |