High-water mark
679.3372
career-best overall
94.4% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 679.3372 at Red White & Que - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (Day 2) — 94.4% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2024-10-19
Dirty Water Dawgs
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1500
peak 1503 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2024-07-12
latest 2024-10-19
Best ToY finish
#706
Master 2024
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
1
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 52%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 176.58 · weakest Brisket (159.97)
Road miles
154
mi across 2 mapped stops · furthest 154 mi
Purse competed for
$11K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
677.36 / 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.
Dirty Water Dawgs 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 105 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.
#3167 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 3 years before Dirty Water Dawgs's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3189 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1508
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3194 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1514
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2013, 11 years before Dirty Water Dawgs's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3185 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
Level with Dirty Water Dawgs on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3178 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2015, 9 years before Dirty Water Dawgs's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3196 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1512
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2015, 9 years before Dirty Water Dawgs'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 | 179.4400 | 173.7144 | 176.58 | top 22% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 169.7144 | 165.6684 | 167.69 | top 57% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 176.5600 | 169.6800 | 173.12 | top 31% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164.5488 | 155.3944 | 159.97 | top 75% |
“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 (14 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0.3 yrs
2024-07-12 → 2024-10-19
Busiest season
2024
2 contests
Cooks most in
NJ
1 of 2 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 1 win · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 176.58 · weakest Brisket (159.97)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 2 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 2 contests
Master average
677.36
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
68
28–41 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
154
2 mapped stops · furthest 154 mi
Purse competed for
$10,700
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Power rating
1500
peak 1503 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2024
- First tracked contest Connecticut Barbecue Challenge
- First call Connecticut Barbecue Challenge
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score675.3832 Connecticut Barbecue Challenge
- First category win (Chicken) Red White & Que - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (Day 2)
- Career-best overall score679.3372 Red White & Que - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (Day 2)
- Career-best single call (Chicken)179.4400 Red White & Que - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (Day 2)
- Most recent contest Red White & Que - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 100% | top 52% | 94.4% | 94.1% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-10-19 | Red White & Que - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (Day 2) 🏅 Columbia, NJ | 15 / 26 (679.3372) | 1 (179.4400) | 21 (165.6684) | 12 (169.6800) | 19 (164.5488) |
| 2024-07-12 | Connecticut Barbecue Challenge 🏅 Somers, CT | 14 / 30 (675.3832) | 12 (173.7144) | 10 (169.7144) | 5 (176.5600) | 23 (155.3944) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 ↗ | Master | #706 (211 pts) | #516 (396 pts) | #815 (201 pts) | #612 (296 pts) | #859 (146 pts) |