A tough matchup
3–0
behind in the head-to-head
Club Carbon CR ahead in 100% of their meetings
Club Carbon CR has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
Big Red's BBQ Team
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1476
peak 1476 · rated over 3 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2021-04-23
latest 2024-04-06
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 79%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
634.19
last 3 Master vs avg 634.19 (+0.00)
Walk rate
33%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±5.81
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 161.41 · weakest Brisket (152.35)
Road miles
6
mi across 3 mapped stops
Schedule strength
8%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1511)
Master avg
634.19 / 720
3 Master contests · 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.
A strong matchup
3–0
ahead in the head-to-head
Ahead in 100% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of Los Maes in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
The comeback
2 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 2 years, then back at BBQ Fest Costa Rica 2023 (2023-04-15).
- last seen 2021-04-23
- back 2023-04-15
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.
Big Red's BBQ Team has 3 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 144 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.
#4348 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
They've been 1505 at their best, 30 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-head#4350 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1475
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#4324 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1503
No shared contest yet.
Level with Big Red's BBQ Team on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#4357 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1475
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#4314 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1476
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 3 years before Big Red's BBQ Team's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#4322 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1503
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2016, 5 years before Big Red's BBQ Team's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.0740 | 157.7256 | 161.41 | top 68% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 165.1316 | 153.0856 | 160.41 | top 56% |
| Pork | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164.5600 | 154.2400 | 160.55 | top 67% |
| Brisket | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.2284 | 143.9544 | 152.35 | top 74% |
“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
3 yrs
2021-04-23 → 2024-04-06
Busiest season
2024
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 3 seasons in the data
Contests visited
3
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
4 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 161.41 · weakest Brisket (152.35)
Walk rate
33%
a top-10 call in 1 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 3 contests
Master average
634.19
out of 720 · 3 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
48
15–54 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
6
3 mapped stops
Schedule strength
1511
average field rating faced — tougher than 8% of rated contests
Longest layoff
2 yrs
2021-04-23 → 2023-04-15
Power rating
1476
peak 1476 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2021
- First tracked contest Fuego y Humo 2021
- First call Fuego y Humo 2021
- Peak power rating (1492) Fuego y Humo 2021
- 2023
- Career-best overall score642.1828 BBQ Fest Costa Rica 2023
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)165.1316 BBQ Fest Costa Rica 2023
- 2024
- Most recent contest BBQ Fest Costa Rica 2024
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -9.7 | BBQ Fest Costa Rica 2023 | 2023-04-15 |
| -8.4 | Fuego y Humo 2021 | 2021-04-23 |
| -6.3 | BBQ Fest Costa Rica 2024 | 2024-04-06 |
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 75% | 87.8% | 87.8% |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 85% | 89.2% | 89.2% |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 77% | 87.3% | 87.3% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-04-06 | BBQ Fest Costa Rica 2024 Heredia, 40703 | 18 / 24 (631.8860) | 19 (158.2516) | 11 (165.1200) | 11 (164.5600) | 23 (143.9544) |
| 2023-04-15 | BBQ Fest Costa Rica 2023 San Jose, | 22 / 26 (642.1828) | 13 (165.0740) | 14 (165.1316) | 23 (154.2400) | 15 (158.2284) |
| 2021-04-23 | Fuego y Humo 2021 San Jose, | 17 / 22 (628.5140) | 16 (157.7256) | 8 (158.2972) | 15 (162.8456) | 15 (154.8572) |