High-water mark
668.5032
career-best overall
92.8% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 668.5032 at East Central State BBQ Cookoff - Paola Roots Festival — 92.8% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2026-08-28
On the Brink
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1491
peak 1491 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2025-07-18
latest 2026-08-28
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 76%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 171.13 · weakest Brisket (151.93)
Road miles
154
mi across 2 mapped stops · furthest 154 mi
Purse competed for
$12K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
656.43 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs
Storylines (1 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.
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.
On the Brink 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 145 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.
#3573 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1491
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3620 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
Level with On the Brink on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3574 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3610 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where On the Brink's is still finding its level.
⚔ 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 On the Brink'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 On the Brink's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171.4056 | 170.8572 | 171.13 | top 51% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171.4172 | 163.9312 | 167.67 | top 63% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.8344 | 164.5600 | 165.70 | top 74% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.3944 | 144.4572 | 151.93 | top 85% |
“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 (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1.1 yrs
2025-07-18 → 2026-08-28
Busiest season
2026
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
KS
1 of 2 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 171.13 · weakest Brisket (151.93)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 2 contests
Master average
656.43
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
58
15–44 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
154
2 mapped stops · furthest 154 mi
Purse competed for
$11,500
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
1.1 yrs
2025-07-18 → 2026-08-28
Power rating
1491
peak 1491 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2025
- First tracked contest Shenandoah ShenDig
- 2026
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score668.5032 East Central State BBQ Cookoff - Paola Roots Festival
- Career-best overall score668.5032 East Central State BBQ Cookoff - Paola Roots Festival
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)171.4172 East Central State BBQ Cookoff - Paola Roots Festival
- Most recent contest East Central State BBQ Cookoff - Paola Roots 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 58% | 92.8% | 92.8% |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 93% | 89.5% | 89.5% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-28 | East Central State BBQ Cookoff - Paola Roots Festival 🏅 Paola, KS | 18 / 31 (668.5032) | 15 (170.8572) | 14 (171.4172) | 19 (166.8344) | 23 (159.3944) |
| 2025-07-18 | Shenandoah ShenDig 🏅 Shenandoah, IA | 28 / 30 (644.3540) | 16 (171.4056) | 24 (163.9312) | 26 (164.5600) | 29 (144.4572) |