High-water mark
670.7776
career-best overall
93.2% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 670.7776 at The Santiam Smoke Show (Day 2) — 93.2% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2025-05-31
Tropic Thunder, Meat, Boys
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1489
peak 1489 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2025-05-30
latest 2025-05-31
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 81%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 173.71 · weakest Chicken (161.14)
Road miles
0
mi across 2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$48K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
668.22 / 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.
Tropic Thunder, Meat, Boys 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 151 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.
#3712 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3698 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1500
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2014, 11 years before Tropic Thunder, Meat, Boys's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3697 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1489
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2022, 3 years before Tropic Thunder, Meat, Boys's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3726 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1489
No shared contest yet.
Level with Tropic Thunder, Meat, Boys on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3683 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1489
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 6 years before Tropic Thunder, Meat, Boys's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3677 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1515
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 8 years before Tropic Thunder, Meat, Boys'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 | 165.7144 | 156.5600 | 161.14 | top 95% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 174.2972 | 173.1200 | 173.71 | top 29% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171.4056 | 170.2744 | 170.84 | top 52% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.4056 | 161.6688 | 162.54 | 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.
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Santiam Smoke Show (Day 2) | 2 | 23 | 0 | top 81% | 2025-05-31 |
The story so far (14 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0 yrs
2025-05-30 → 2025-05-31
Busiest season
2025
2 contests
Cooks most in
OR
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
1
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 173.71 · weakest Chicken (161.14)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 2 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 2 contests
Master average
668.22
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
29
11–45 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
0
2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$48,000
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Power rating
1489
peak 1489 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2025
- First tracked contest The Santiam Smoke Show (Day 1)
- First call The Santiam Smoke Show (Day 1)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score665.6684 The Santiam Smoke Show (Day 1)
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)174.2972 The Santiam Smoke Show (Day 1)
- Career-best overall score670.7776 The Santiam Smoke Show (Day 2)
- Most recent contest The Santiam Smoke Show (Day 2)
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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 81% | 93.2% | 92.8% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-31 | The Santiam Smoke Show (Day 2) 🏅 Sweet Home, OR | 23 / 28 (670.7776) | 25 (165.7144) | 9 (173.1200) | 17 (170.2744) | 25 (161.6688) |
| 2025-05-30 | The Santiam Smoke Show (Day 1) 🏅 Sweet Home, OR | 24 / 30 (665.6684) | 30 (156.5600) | 8 (174.2972) | 13 (171.4056) | 24 (163.4056) |