High-water mark
689.7260
career-best overall
95.8% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 689.7260 at American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest — 95.8% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- Oct 30, 2024
No Boar BBQ
No Boar BBQ is a competition barbecue team with 5 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2022 and 2024. Their best overall finish is 55th of 169 at the American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest (2024).
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1506
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 22 invitational or side-series contests not counted
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
Sep 29, 2022
latest Oct 30, 2024 · 2.1 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
0% of 5 contests
Avg finish
top 58%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±15.75
spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Brisket
avg 170.57 · weakest Pork (166)
Road miles
10
across 5 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$113K
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
670.54 / 720
4 Master contests · 0 GCs
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to No Boar BBQ, each with one reason worth a look.
No Boar BBQ has 2 rated contests, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 106 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#3,013 of the rated field
- Contests
- 13
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 23%
- Peak
- 1510
2–0 in 2 shared contests (100% to No Boar BBQ)
2 contests in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team No Boar BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head#3,016 of the rated field
- Contests
- 32
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1535
2–0 in 2 shared contests (100% to No Boar BBQ)
They've been 1535 at their best, 30 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-head#2,988 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1506
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#3,007 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1513
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 6 years before No Boar BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#2,997 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1506
They were already cooking in 2014, 8 years before No Boar BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Compare careers#2,998 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1511
Level with No Boar BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careersBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 175.4056 | 157.6456 | 167.55 | top 56% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171.4172 | 160.5940 | 166.43 | top 65% |
| Pork | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.8800 | 160.5716 | 166 | top 67% |
| Brisket | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 176.0116 | 165.1428 | 170.57 | top 34% |
“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.
More numbers
Busiest season
2024
3 contests
Contests a season
2.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
KS
5 of 5 contests
Contests visited
4
a different one every time
Opponents faced
696
finished ahead 569 times, behind 794
Longest layoff
2.1 yrs
Sep 29, 2022 → Oct 30, 2024
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20243 milestones
- Career-best overall score689.7260 American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest
- Career-best single call (Brisket)176.0116 American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest
- Most recent contest American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest
20222 milestones
- First tracked contest American Royal World Series of Barbecue - INVITATIONAL CONTEST
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score657.0400 American Royal World Series of Barbecue - INVITATIONAL CONTEST
Scores over time (% of a perfect score — tap a meat to add it)
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 34% | 95.8% | 95.3% |
| 2022 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 82% | 91.3% | 91% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 30, 2024 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 159 / 444 (682.2972) | 99 (174.8572) | 165 (171.4172) | 152 (170.8800) | 263 (165.1428) |
| Oct 30, 2024 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest unrated Kansas City, KS | 55 / 169 (689.7260) | 48 (175.4056) | 96 (170.2860) | 127 (168.0228) | 24 (176.0116) |
| Oct 30, 2024 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Sides Kansas City, KS | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sep 29, 2022 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - OPEN CONTEST 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 348 / 505 (653.1084) | 370 (162.2744) | 393 (160.5940) | 313 (164.5256) | 238 (165.7144) |
| Sep 29, 2022 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - INVITATIONAL CONTEST unrated Kansas City, KS | 236 / 249 (657.0400) | 247 (157.6456) | 219 (163.4172) | 236 (160.5716) | 37 (175.4056) |
An unrated contest — an invitational, or a Competitor or Kosher Series board — is in the record but doesn’t move the power rating.