#3869 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1486
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headTeam Taste Buds BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1486
peak 1486 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2024-04-26
latest 2024-06-14
Best ToY finish
#814
Master 2024
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 79%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 169.13 · weakest Pork Ribs (153.93)
Road miles
39
mi across 2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$14K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
644.73 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs
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.
Team Taste Buds BBQ 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 148 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.
#3864 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1486
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 5 years before Team Taste Buds BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3841 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2016, 8 years before Team Taste Buds BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3828 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1486
No shared contest yet.
Level with Team Taste Buds BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3836 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1501
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 6 years before Team Taste Buds BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3871 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1486
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 7 years before Team Taste Buds BBQ'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 | 0 | 0 | 172.5600 | 165.7028 | 169.13 | top 58% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 156.5028 | 151.3484 | 153.93 | top 95% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.9656 | 161.1428 | 162.55 | top 78% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.3944 | 154.8344 | 159.11 | top 69% |
“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
0.1 yrs
2024-04-26 → 2024-06-14
Busiest season
2024
2 contests
Cooks most in
CA
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 169.13 · weakest Pork Ribs (153.93)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 1 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 2 contests
Master average
644.73
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
52
11–58 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
39
2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$13,500
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Power rating
1486
peak 1486 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2024
- First tracked contest Lodi BeerFest & State BBQ Championship
- First call CBCA Clayton BBQ and Brews Festival (MASTERS)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score656.4228 CBCA Clayton BBQ and Brews Festival (MASTERS)
- Career-best overall score656.4228 CBCA Clayton BBQ and Brews Festival (MASTERS)
- Career-best single call (Chicken)172.5600 CBCA Clayton BBQ and Brews Festival (MASTERS)
- Most recent contest CBCA Clayton BBQ and Brews Festival (MASTERS)
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 | 0 | 50% | top 79% | 91.2% | 89.5% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-06-14 | CBCA Clayton BBQ and Brews Festival (MASTERS) 🏅 Clayton, CA | 16 / 25 (656.4228) | 9 (172.5600) | 23 (156.5028) | 17 (163.9656) | 13 (163.3944) |
| 2024-04-26 | Lodi BeerFest & State BBQ Championship 🏅 Lodi, CA | 32 / 34 (633.0284) | 27 (165.7028) | 33 (151.3484) | 30 (161.1428) | 29 (154.8344) |
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 | #814 (154 pts) | #782 (194 pts) | #1086 (119 pts) | #866 (149 pts) | #822 (169 pts) |