#3620 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headSons of Thunder BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1490
peak 1490 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2025-08-15
latest 2026-08-14
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 75%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 164.81 · weakest Brisket (157.94)
Road miles
0
mi across 2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$30K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
642.69 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs
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.
Sons of Thunder BBQ 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 154 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.
#3610 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
Level with Sons of Thunder BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3609 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1491
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2022, 4 years before Sons of Thunder BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3618 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1491
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2015, 10 years before Sons of Thunder BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3641 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1490
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 7 years before Sons of Thunder BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3639 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1490
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 8 years before Sons of Thunder 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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.2512 | 160.5372 | 161.39 | top 78% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.5256 | 161.0972 | 164.81 | top 64% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.8228 | 158.2628 | 158.54 | top 86% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.9312 | 155.9428 | 157.94 | top 75% |
“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 (15 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1 yrs
2025-08-15 → 2026-08-14
Busiest season
2026
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
WY
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 164.81 · weakest Brisket (157.94)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 2 contests
Master average
642.69
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
38
14–40 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
0
2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$30,000
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Power rating
1490
peak 1490 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2025
- First tracked contest Pepsi Wyoming State BBQ Championships and Bluegrass Festival
- 2026
- Career-best overall score647.2568 Pepsi Wyoming State BBQ Championships & Bluegrass Festival
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)168.5256 Pepsi Wyoming State BBQ Championships & Bluegrass Festival
- Most recent contest Pepsi Wyoming State BBQ Championships & Bluegrass Festival
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 | 0% | top 83% | 89.9% | 89.9% |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 67% | 88.6% | 88.6% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-14 | Pepsi Wyoming State BBQ Championships & Bluegrass Festival 🏅 Worland, WY | 24 / 29 (647.2568) | 27 (160.5372) | 18 (168.5256) | 25 (158.2628) | 23 (159.9312) |
| 2025-08-15 | Pepsi Wyoming State BBQ Championships and Bluegrass Festival 🏅 Worland, WY | 18 / 27 (638.1140) | 17 (162.2512) | 18 (161.0972) | 23 (158.8228) | 19 (155.9428) |