The comeback
1.8 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 1.8 years, then back at CBCA Clayton BBQ and Brews Festival (MASTERS) (2024-06-14).
- last seen 2022-08-27
- back 2024-06-14
Mojave Meat Masters
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1479
peak 1479 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2022-07-08
latest 2024-06-14
Best ToY finish
#1303
Master 2022
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 91%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 160.55 · weakest Pork Ribs (146.61)
Road miles
10
mi across 3 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$17K
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
617.35 / 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.
Mojave Meat Masters 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 145 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.
#4166 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1479
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#4205 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1511
No shared contest yet.
They've been 1511 at their best, 33 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-head#4169 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1479
No shared contest yet.
Level with Mojave Meat Masters on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#4151 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1503
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 3 years before Mojave Meat Masters's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#4186 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1479
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2015, 7 years before Mojave Meat Masters's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#4159 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1479
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 5 years before Mojave Meat Masters'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 | 158.8916 | 157.1544 | 158.02 | top 85% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 149.6800 | 145.0744 | 146.61 | top 92% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.1200 | 159.9772 | 160.55 | top 77% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.8344 | 147.9544 | 151.39 | top 96% |
“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 (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1.9 yrs
2022-07-08 → 2024-06-14
Busiest season
2022
2 contests
Contests a season
1.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
CA
3 of 3 contests
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
3 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 160.55 · weakest Pork Ribs (146.61)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 3 contests
Master average
617.35
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
41
5–45 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
10
3 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$17,475
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
1.8 yrs
2022-08-27 → 2024-06-14
Power rating
1479
peak 1479 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2022
- First tracked contest Clayton BBQ Cook-off
- Career-best single call (Pork)161.1200 Clayton BBQ Cook-off
- 2024
- Career-best overall score623.3832 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 96% | 86.6% | 86.6% |
| 2022 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 85% | 84.9% | 84.9% |
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 | 24 / 25 (623.3832) | 23 (158.8916) | 24 (149.6800) | 21 (159.9772) | 24 (154.8344) |
| 2022-08-27 | Holy Smokes (ONE MEAT RIBS) Walnut Creek, CA | — | — | 13 (145.0744) | — | — |
| 2022-07-08 | Clayton BBQ Cook-off 🏅 Clayton, CA | 23 / 27 (611.3144) | 21 (157.1544) | 25 (145.0856) | 19 (161.1200) | 26 (147.9544) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 ↗ | Master | #1303 (62 pts) | #1303 (72 pts) | #1003 (152 pts) | #1269 (82 pts) | #1685 (52 pts) |