The heartbreaker
3.9196
points from the title
Came within 3.9196 points of the Grand Championship at Twin Smoke (2025-05-17).
From Nil to Grill
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1504
peak 1514 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2025-05-17
latest 2026-05-15
Best ToY finish
#636
Master 2025
Grand champs
0
1 reserve
Category wins
2
3 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 50%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 166.06 · weakest Pork (161.14)
Road miles
0
mi across 2 mapped stops
Master avg
657.41 / 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 Twin Smoke (2025-05-17).
- Chicken 1st
- Brisket 1st
High-water mark
679.9772
career-best overall
94.4% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 679.9772 at Twin Smoke — 94.4% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2025-05-17
Announced themselves early
2nd
at their very first contest
Finished 2 of 11 at their very first tracked contest, Twin Smoke (2025-05-17).
- 2025-05-17
- 11-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.
From Nil to Grill 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 114 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.
#3038 of the rated field
- Contests
- 26
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 35%
- Peak
- 1508
0–1 in 1 shared contest (0% to From Nil to Grill)
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team From Nil to Grill has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head#3055 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1522
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 8 years before From Nil to Grill's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3064 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3042 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1511
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2016, 9 years before From Nil to Grill's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3046 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
Level with From Nil to Grill on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3057 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 8 years before From Nil to Grill'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 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 172.6172 | 159.5088 | 166.06 | top 42% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 169.6800 | 159.3828 | 164.53 | top 40% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 164.5600 | 157.7260 | 161.14 | top 58% |
| Brisket | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 173.1200 | 158.2172 | 165.67 | top 42% |
“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.
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 18% |
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 83% |
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Twin Smoke | 2 | 2 | 0 | top 50% | 2026-05-15 |
The story so far (13 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1 yrs
2025-05-17 → 2026-05-15
Busiest season
2026
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
LT
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
1
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 1 win · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 166.06 · weakest Pork (161.14)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 1 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
50%
1 of 2 contests
Master average
657.41
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
27
13–19 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
0
2 mapped stops
Power rating
1504
peak 1514 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2025
- First tracked contest Twin Smoke
- First call Twin Smoke
- First category win (Chicken) Twin Smoke
- First overall top-10 Twin Smoke
- First overall podium Twin Smoke
- First Reserve Championship Twin Smoke
- First multi-meat day Twin Smoke
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score679.9772 Twin Smoke
- Career-best overall score679.9772 Twin Smoke
- Career-best single call (Brisket)173.1200 Twin Smoke
- 2026
- Most recent contest Twin Smoke
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)
Team of the Year rank by season
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% | 88.2% | 88.2% |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 100% | top 18% | 94.4% | 94.4% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-15 | Twin Smoke Vilnius, LT | 19 / 23 (634.8348) | 17 (159.5088) | 14 (159.3828) | 16 (157.7260) | 17 (158.2172) |
| 2025-05-17 | Twin Smoke Vilnius, LT | 2 / 11 (679.9772) | 1 (172.6172) | 2 (169.6800) | 5 (164.5600) | 1 (173.1200) |
Career map (orange GC · green top-10 · grey the rest — tap a pin)
Team of the Year standings (rank per category by season — year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 ↗ | Master | #885 (78 pts) | #945 (88 pts) | #957 (103 pts) | #892 (93 pts) | #896 (88 pts) |
| 2025 ↗ | Master | #636 (236 pts) | #670 (261 pts) | #747 (236 pts) | #825 (161 pts) | #623 (261 pts) |