High-water mark
174.8456
career-best overall
97.1% of a perfect 180
Their best day on record: 174.8456 at Smokin on the Osage BBQ Contest (Day 1) — 97.1% of a perfect 180.
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- Jul 17, 2026
Owen Colter
Owen Colter is a competition barbecue team with 5 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2024 and 2026. Their best overall finish is 4th of 32 at the Smokin on the Osage BBQ Contest (Day 1) (2026).
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1523
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 2
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
Jul 19, 2024
latest Jul 17, 2026 · 2 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
40% of 5 contests
Best top-10 run
2
straight overall top-10s, still running
Avg finish
top 17%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Road miles
0
across 5 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$25K
listed at 5 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 5 state-championship entries
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Owen Colter has 2 rated contests, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 101 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#2,417 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1523
Their last contest in the data was back in 2015, 11 years before Owen Colter's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
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- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1524
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#2,402 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1524
Their rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 6 contests, alongside a 17% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Compare careers#2,420 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1532
Level with Owen Colter on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#2,406 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 50%
- Peak
- 1541
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 5 years before Owen Colter's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#2,418 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1523
They were already cooking in 2013, 11 years before Owen Colter's first contest.
⚔ Compare careersBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|
“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.
More numbers
Contests a season
1
across 5 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
MO
5 of 5 contests
Contests visited
2
a different one every time
Opponents faced
109
finished ahead 89 times, behind 30
Longest layoff
2 yrs
Jul 22, 2022 → Jul 19, 2024
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20262 milestones
- Career-best overall score174.8456 Smokin on the Osage BBQ Contest (Day 1)
- Most recent contest Smokin on the Osage BBQ Contest (Day 1)
20242 milestones
- First overall top-10 Smokin on the Osage (Day 1)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score172.6172 Smokin on the Osage (Day 1)
20211 milestone
- First tracked contest Smokin on the Osage - Day 1
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 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0% | top 13% | 97.1% | 97.1% |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0% | top 22% | 95.9% | 95.9% |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2021 | 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 17, 2026 | Smokin on the Osage BBQ Contest (Day 1) 🏅 Osceola, MO | 4 / 32 (174.8456) | — | — | — | — |
| Jul 18, 2025 | Smokin on the Osage BBQ Contest and Car Show (Day 1) 🏅 Osceola, MO | — | — | — | — | — |
| Jul 19, 2024 | Smokin on the Osage (Day 1) 🏅 Osceola, MO | 8 / 37 (172.6172) | — | — | — | — |
| Jul 22, 2022 | Smokin on the Osage (Day 1) 🏅 Osceola, MO | — | — | — | — | — |
| Jul 23, 2021 | Smokin on the Osage - Day 1 🏅 Osceola, MO | — | — | — | — | — |