The heartbreaker
2.8800
points from the title
Came within 2.8800 points of the Grand Championship at Raider Red Meats BBQ & Ribeye Championships (2024-08-16).
3 Cow Cartel
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1516
peak 1516 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
1
in the data
First seen
2024-08-16
latest 2024-08-16
Grand champs
0
1 reserve
Category wins
1
2 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 1 contests
Avg finish
top 5%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
1 🔥
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 180.00 · weakest Pork Ribs (168.84)
Purse competed for
$12K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Master avg
705.12 / 720
1 Master contest · 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.
Perfect scores on the board
1
perfect 180s
1 perfect 180 in the data — every judge at the table handing back a nine, all in chicken.
- Chicken ×1
High-water mark
705.1200
career-best overall
97.9% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 705.1200 at Raider Red Meats BBQ & Ribeye Championships — 97.9% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2024-08-16
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.
3 Cow Cartel 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 83 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.
#2600 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1525
No shared contest yet.
5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where 3 Cow Cartel's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head#2602 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 6 years before 3 Cow Cartel's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2608 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1523
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2013, 11 years before 3 Cow Cartel's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#2606 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1521
No shared contest yet.
Level with 3 Cow Cartel on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2589 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1524
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2014, 10 years before 3 Cow Cartel's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2609 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 29%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
7 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where 3 Cow Cartel's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 180.0000 🔥 | 180.0000 | 180.00 | top 2% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 174.8572 | 162.8228 | 168.84 | top 41% |
| Pork | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 177.7144 | 177.7144 | 177.71 | top 7% |
| Brisket | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 172.5484 | 172.5484 | 172.55 | top 22% |
“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 yrs
2024-08-16 → 2024-08-16
Busiest season
2024
1 contest
Cooks most in
TX
1 of 1 contests
Contests visited
1
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
2 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 180.00 · weakest Pork Ribs (168.84)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 1 of 1 contests
Overall top-10 rate
100%
1 of 1 contests
Master average
705.12
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Perfect 180s
1
every judge at the table handing back a nine
Opponents faced
40
39–1 across every shared overall standing
Purse competed for
$11,525
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Power rating
1516
peak 1516 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2024
- First tracked contest Raider Red Meats BBQ & Ribeye Championships
- First call Raider Red Meats BBQ & Ribeye Championships
- First category win (Chicken) Raider Red Meats BBQ & Ribeye Championships
- First overall top-10 Raider Red Meats BBQ & Ribeye Championships
- First overall podium Raider Red Meats BBQ & Ribeye Championships
- First Reserve Championship Raider Red Meats BBQ & Ribeye Championships
- First perfect 180 (Chicken) Raider Red Meats BBQ & Ribeye Championships
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score705.1200 Raider Red Meats BBQ & Ribeye Championships
- Career-best overall score705.1200 Raider Red Meats BBQ & Ribeye Championships
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 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 100% | top 5% | 97.9% | 97.9% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-08-16 | Raider Red Meats BBQ & Ribeye Championships 🏅 Lubbock, TX | 2 / 41 (705.1200) | 1 (180.0000) | 5 (174.8572) | 3 (177.7144) | 9 (172.5484) |