The one to beat
2×
one call ahead of them
Flamin Dave's has finished one call ahead of Thick & Nasty 2 times — their closest competition in the data.
Thick & Nasty
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1494
peak 1494 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2023-06-17
latest 2024-06-14
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 64%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 164.24 · weakest Pork Ribs (159.68)
Road miles
0
mi across 2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$5K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
Backyard avg
323.92 / 360
2 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
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.
Thick & Nasty 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 129 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.
#3475 of the rated field
- Contests
- 8
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 38%
- Peak
- 1523
0–2 in 2 shared contests (0% to Thick & Nasty)
2 contests in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Thick & Nasty has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head#3450 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1494
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3459 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 6 years before Thick & Nasty's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3480 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2017, 6 years before Thick & Nasty's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3467 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1494
No shared contest yet.
Level with Thick & Nasty on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3466 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2016, 8 years before Thick & Nasty'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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.9656 | 160.5140 | 164.24 | top 50% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.8344 | 156.5256 | 159.68 | top 64% |
| Pork | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
| Brisket | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 61% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 68% |
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Morris Rhythm & BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) | 2 | 20 | 0 | top 64% | 2024-06-14 |
The story so far (14 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1 yrs
2023-06-17 → 2024-06-14
Busiest season
2024
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
IL
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
1
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 164.24 · weakest Pork Ribs (159.68)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 2 contests
Backyard average
323.92
out of 360 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
51
26–45 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
0
2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$5,100
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
Power rating
1494
peak 1494 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2023
- First tracked contest Morris Rhythm & BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- 2024
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score324.4912 Morris Rhythm & BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best overall score324.4912 Morris Rhythm & BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best single call (Chicken)167.9656 Morris Rhythm & BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Most recent contest Morris Rhythm & BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 68% | 90.1% | 90.1% |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 61% | 89.8% | 89.8% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-06-14 | Morris Rhythm & BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Morris, IL | 27 / 40 (324.4912) | 12 (167.9656) | 32 (156.5256) | — | — |
| 2023-06-17 | Morris Rhythm & BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Morris, IL | 20 / 33 (323.3484) | 23 (160.5140) | 16 (162.8344) | — | — |