High-water mark
693.6568
career-best overall
96.3% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 693.6568 at BBQ Expo Master's Challenge — 96.3% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2025-03-29
Aldo's BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1525
peak 1525 · rated over 3 contests ⓘ
Best runs
3
straight top-10s
Contests
7
in the data
First seen
2022-10-07
latest 2025-03-29
Best ToY finish
#683
Master 2025
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
3
of 7 contests
Avg finish
top 34%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
510.81
last 3 Master vs avg 510.81 (+0.00)
Walk rate
71%
contests with a top-10 call
Top-10 streak
3
and counting
Consistency
±243.40
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 173.98 · weakest Pork Ribs (166.16)
Road miles
662
mi across 7 mapped stops · furthest 246 mi
Schedule strength
35%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1547)
Master avg
510.81 / 720
3 Master contests · 0 GCs
Storylines (3 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.
The weak link
−7.8
points behind their best meat
Pork Ribs is where the weekend gets away from them — it averages 7.82 points below their pork, and turns into a call 67% of the time against 100%.
- Pork Ribs avg 166.16
- Pork avg 173.98
- 4 calls in 6 entries
Announced themselves early
5th
at their very first contest
Finished 5 of 12 at their very first tracked contest, TORO in Dante's Hell Competition - One Meat- Ribs (2022-10-07).
- 2022-10-07
- 12-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.
Aldo's BBQ has 3 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 84 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.
#2344 of the rated field
- Contests
- 8
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 13%
- Peak
- 1525
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2022, 3 years before Aldo's BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2359 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1524
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 7, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#2348 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1524
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2013, 9 years before Aldo's BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#2346 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 14%
- Peak
- 1526
No shared contest yet.
Level with Aldo's BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2340 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 43%
- Peak
- 1525
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 6 years before Aldo's BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2341 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 29%
- Peak
- 1525
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2015, 10 years before Aldo's 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 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 173.7028 | 162.2516 | 168.17 | top 48% |
| Pork Ribs | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 173.1084 | 156.5488 | 166.16 | top 49% |
| Pork | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 179.4400 | 168.5256 | 173.98 | top 30% |
| Brisket | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 171.4056 | 164.5828 | 167.99 | top 43% |
“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) | 2 | 0 | top 44% |
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 13% |
The story so far (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
2.5 yrs
2022-10-07 → 2025-03-29
Busiest season
2023
3 contests
Contests a season
1.8
across 4 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
PZ
2 of 7 contests
Contests visited
3
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
6 entries · 0 wins · 4 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 173.98 · weakest Pork Ribs (166.16)
Walk rate
71%
a top-10 call in 5 of 7 contests
Overall top-10 rate
43%
3 of 7 contests
Best top-10 run
3
straight contests — and still running
Master average
510.81
out of 720 · 3 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
48
41–13 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
662
7 mapped stops · furthest 246 mi
Schedule strength
1547
average field rating faced — tougher than 35% of rated contests
Longest layoff
1.5 yrs
2023-10-07 → 2025-03-29
Power rating
1525
peak 1525 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2022
- First tracked contest TORO in Dante's Hell Competition - One Meat- Ribs
- First call TORO in Dante's Hell Competition - One Meat- Ribs
- First overall top-10 TORO in Dante's Hell Competition - One Meat- Ribs
- 2023
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score671.9428 FO.G & Smoke 2023
- 2025
- Career-best overall score693.6568 BBQ Expo Master's Challenge
- Career-best single call (Pork)179.4400 BBQ Expo Master's Challenge
- Peak power rating (1525) BBQ Expo Master's Challenge
- 2026
- Most recent contest Grill Contest Rivergaro (ONE MEAT CHICKEN)
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +13.8 | BBQ Expo Master's Challenge | 2025-03-29 |
| +6.2 | TORO in Dante's Hell Competition - One Meat- Ribs | 2022-10-07 |
| +4.5 | FO.G & Smoke 2023 | 2023-09-16 |
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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | — | — | — |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 13% | 96.3% | 96.3% |
| 2023 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 67% | top 47% | 93.3% | 93.3% |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 42% | 23.2% | 23.2% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-03 | Grill Contest Rivergaro (ONE MEAT CHICKEN) Rivergaro, PZ | — | 11 (162.2516) | — | — | — |
| 2026-05-03 | Grill Contest Rivergaro (ONE MEAT RIBS) Rivergaro, PZ | — | — | 5 (173.1084) | — | — |
| 2025-03-29 | BBQ Expo Master's Challenge Brescia, 25125 | 4 / 30 (693.6568) | 5 (173.7028) | 12 (169.1084) | 2 (179.4400) | 6 (171.4056) |
| 2023-10-07 | Country Road & BBQ Contest (ONE MEAT RIBS) CARTIGLIANO, 36050 | — | — | 16 (156.5488) | — | — |
| 2023-09-16 | FO.G & Smoke 2023 Spilamberto, It | 7 / 15 (671.9428) | 8 (168.5600) | 4 (170.2744) | 8 (168.5256) | 10 (164.5828) |
| 2023-07-29 | Vienna Alps BBQ Days (ONE MEAT RIBS) Reichenau, | — | — | 10 (161.1200) | — | — |
| 2022-10-07 | TORO in Dante's Hell Competition - One Meat- Ribs Pratovecchio Stia, 52015 | 5 / 12 (166.8228) | — | 5 (166.8228) | — | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 ↗ | Master | #683 (205 pts) | #807 (180 pts) | #1020 (120 pts) | #649 (255 pts) | #798 (170 pts) |
| 2023 ↗ | Master | #868 (145 pts) | #971 (135 pts) | #561 (394 pts) | #935 (135 pts) | #1072 (115 pts) |