The heartbreaker
0.9824
points from the title
Came within 0.9824 points of the Grand Championship at Cotswolds Barbecue Championship (2024-06-22).
N W BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1515
peak 1515 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2024-06-22
latest 2025-06-07
Grand champs
0
1 reserve
Category wins
2
4 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 45%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Top-10 streak
2
and counting
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 169.42 · weakest Brisket (161.74)
Road miles
8
mi across 2 mapped stops
Master avg
664.87 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs
Storylines (4 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 multi-meat day
1
contests with 2+ category wins
They've won two or more meats on the same day 1 time — the best of them 2 category wins at Cotswolds Barbecue Championship (2024-06-22).
- Pork Ribs 1st
- Pork 1st
High-water mark
689.1888
career-best overall
95.7% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 689.1888 at Cotswolds Barbecue Championship — 95.7% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2024-06-22
Announced themselves early
2nd
at their very first contest
Finished 2 of 6 at their very first tracked contest, Cotswolds Barbecue Championship (2024-06-22).
- 2024-06-22
- 6-team field
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.
N W 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 95 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.
#2648 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1515
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2653 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1519
No shared contest yet.
Level with N W BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2658 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1514
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2666 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2017, 7 years before N W BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#2646 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1518
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2022, 3 years before N W BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2665 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1521
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2016, 9 years before N W 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 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 169.1544 | 161.1084 | 165.13 | top 52% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 174.2972 | 162.8572 | 168.58 | top 37% |
| Pork | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 172.5828 | 166.2628 | 169.42 | top 44% |
| Brisket | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 173.1544 | 150.3204 | 161.74 | top 67% |
“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 (14 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1 yrs
2024-06-22 → 2025-06-07
Busiest season
2025
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
GL
1 of 2 contests
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 2 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 169.42 · weakest Brisket (161.74)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 2 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
100%
2 of 2 contests
Best top-10 run
2
straight contests — and still running
Master average
664.87
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
9
7–4 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
8
2 mapped stops
Power rating
1515
peak 1515 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2024
- First tracked contest Cotswolds Barbecue Championship
- First call Cotswolds Barbecue Championship
- First category win (Pork Ribs) Cotswolds Barbecue Championship
- First overall top-10 Cotswolds Barbecue Championship
- First overall podium Cotswolds Barbecue Championship
- First Reserve Championship Cotswolds Barbecue Championship
- First multi-meat day Cotswolds Barbecue Championship
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score689.1888 Cotswolds Barbecue Championship
- Career-best overall score689.1888 Cotswolds Barbecue Championship
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)174.2972 Cotswolds Barbecue Championship
- 2025
- Most recent contest UK Barbecue Championships at Hayles Fruit Farm
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 57% | 89% | 89% |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 100% | top 33% | 95.7% | 95.7% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-06-07 | UK Barbecue Championships at Hayles Fruit Farm Cheltenham, GL | 4 / 7 (640.5488) | 5 (161.1084) | 4 (162.8572) | 5 (166.2628) | 7 (150.3204) |
| 2024-06-22 | Cotswolds Barbecue Championship Cheltenham, GL50 1SD | 2 / 6 (689.1888) | 2 (169.1544) | 1 (174.2972) | 1 (172.5828) | 2 (173.1544) |