A multi-meat day
1
contest with 2+ category wins
They've won two or more meats on the same day 1 time — the best of them 2 category wins at 3rd Annual St. Louis Kosher BBQ Competition (KOSHER SERIES) (Oct 20, 2018).
- Chicken 1st
- Brisket 1st
Meat Candy
Meat Candy is a competition barbecue team with 5 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2018 and 2024. Their best overall finish is 5th of 14 at the IBEW So Cal BBQ & Chili Cook-Off (COMPETITOR SERIES) (2023). They finished #1508 in the 2024 Master Series Team of the Year standings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1480
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 31 invitational or side-series contest not counted
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
Sep 28, 2018
latest Jul 20, 2024 · 5.8 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
2
2 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
20% of 5 contests
Avg finish
top 67%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
60%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±30.27
spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 164.27 · weakest Pork Ribs (148.94)
Road miles
2,604
across 5 mapped stops · furthest 1,501 mi
Schedule strength
39%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1551)
Purse competed for
$20K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
627.12 / 720
3 Master contests · 0 GCs
Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 ↗ | Master | #1508 (55 pts) | #1554 (55 pts) | #1597 (55 pts) | #1145 (80 pts) | #1513 (55 pts) |
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to Meat Candy, each with one reason worth a look.
Meat Candy has 3 rated contests, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 134 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#4,119 of the rated field
- Contests
- 10
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 10%
- Peak
- 1480
0–1 in 1 shared contest (0% to Meat Candy)
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Meat Candy has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head#4,128 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1480
Careers of much the same size, 7 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#4,142 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1509
Level with Meat Candy on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#4,114 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1481
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#4,146 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1480
They turned up 5 years after Meat Candy did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Compare careers#4,120 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1480
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careersBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 169.1316 | 151.9428 | 162.84 | top 52% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.5256 | 140.5144 | 148.94 | top 88% |
| Pork | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 173.7028 | 156.5944 | 164.27 | top 46% |
| Brisket | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 168.5256 | 135.9544 | 155.29 | top 59% |
“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 field size and state
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 36% |
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 100% |
| Large (40+) | 2 | 0 | top 66% |
Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smoke on the Trails | 2 | 31 | 0 | top 66% | Sep 27, 2019 |
More numbers
Busiest season
2018
2 contests
Contests a season
1.3
across 4 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
KS
2 of 5 contests · 4 states in all
Contests visited
3
1 of them more than once
Opponents faced
144
finished ahead 53 times, behind 108
Longest layoff
3.6 yrs
Sep 27, 2019 → May 19, 2023
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20241 milestone
- Most recent contest The Sutherlin Throwdown
20231 milestone
- First overall top-10 IBEW So Cal BBQ & Chili Cook-Off (COMPETITOR SERIES)
20188 milestones
- First tracked contest Smoke On the Trails
- First call Smoke On the Trails
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score668.5256 Smoke On the Trails
- Career-best overall score668.5256 Smoke On the Trails
- Career-best single call (Pork)173.7028 Smoke On the Trails
- Peak power rating (1504) Smoke On the Trails
- First category win (Chicken) 3rd Annual St. Louis Kosher BBQ Competition (KOSHER SERIES)
- First multi-meat day 3rd Annual St. Louis Kosher BBQ Competition (KOSHER SERIES)
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +4.3 | Smoke On the Trails | Sep 28, 2018 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -14.6 | The Sutherlin Throwdown | Jul 20, 2024 |
| -9.5 | Smoke on the Trails | Sep 27, 2019 |
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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 100% | 85.5% | 85.5% |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 36% | 86.7% | 86.7% |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 87% | 82.9% | 82.9% |
| 2018 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 100% | top 46% | 92.9% | 92.9% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 2024 | The Sutherlin Throwdown 🏅 Sutherlin, OR | 30 / 30 (615.8512) | 26 (160.5484) | 30 (140.5144) | 20 (166.8112) | 29 (147.9772) |
| May 19, 2023 | IBEW So Cal BBQ & Chili Cook-Off (COMPETITOR SERIES) unrated San Diego, CA | 5 / 14 (624.5376) | 4 (165.1544) | 12 (145.6344) | 7 (156.5944) | 7 (157.1544) |
| Sep 27, 2019 | Smoke on the Trails 🏅 Gardner, KS | 46 / 53 (596.9828) | 44 (151.9428) | 47 (149.0972) | 32 (159.9884) | 50 (135.9544) |
| Oct 20, 2018 | 3rd Annual St. Louis Kosher BBQ Competition (KOSHER SERIES) Olivette, MO | — | 1 (169.1316) | — | — | 1 (168.5256) |
| Sep 28, 2018 | Smoke On the Trails Gardner, KS | 31 / 68 (668.5256) | 36 (167.4400) | 53 (160.5256) | 5 (173.7028) | 30 (166.8572) |
An unrated contest — an invitational, or a Competitor or Kosher Series board — is in the record but doesn’t move the power rating.