#3666 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where BLACK BOX's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headBLACK BOX
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1490
peak 1490 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
1
in the data
First seen
2025-04-25
latest 2025-04-25
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 1 contests
Avg finish
top 95%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 169.12 · weakest Pork Ribs (157.68)
Purse competed for
$8K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Master avg
652.98 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
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.
BLACK BOX has 1 rated contest — 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 162 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.
#3651 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2017, 8 years before BLACK BOX's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3654 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1503
No shared contest yet.
Level with BLACK BOX on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3661 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 6 years before BLACK BOX's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3641 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1490
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 6 years before BLACK BOX's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3639 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1490
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 7 years before BLACK BOX'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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.1200 | 169.1200 | 169.12 | top 75% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.6800 | 157.6800 | 157.68 | top 100% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.9428 | 163.9428 | 163.94 | top 85% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.2400 | 162.2400 | 162.24 | top 83% |
“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 (13 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0 yrs
2025-04-25 → 2025-04-25
Busiest season
2025
1 contest
Cooks most in
MO
1 of 1 contests
Contests visited
1
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
1 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 169.12 · weakest Pork Ribs (157.68)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 1 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 1 contests
Master average
652.98
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
39
2–37 across every shared overall standing
Purse competed for
$7,740
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Power rating
1490
peak 1490 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2025
- First tracked contest Smokin' in the Creek BBQ Contest
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score652.9828 Smokin' in the Creek BBQ Contest
- Career-best overall score652.9828 Smokin' in the Creek BBQ Contest
- Career-best single call (Chicken)169.1200 Smokin' in the Creek BBQ Contest
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 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 95% | 90.7% | 90.7% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-04-25 | Smokin' in the Creek BBQ Contest 🏅 Sugar Creek, MO | 38 / 40 (652.9828) | 30 (169.1200) | 40 (157.6800) | 34 (163.9428) | 33 (162.2400) |