High-water mark
677.1084
career-best overall
94.0% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 677.1084 at The War of Barbeque — 94.0% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2026-06-20
Manu’s American Bbq
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1489
peak 1489 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2026-04-11
latest 2026-06-20
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 73%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 172.30 · weakest Brisket (155.37)
Road miles
45
mi across 2 mapped stops
Master avg
663.07 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs
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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.
Manu’s American 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 151 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.
#3712 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3698 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1500
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2023, 3 years before Manu’s American Bbq's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3697 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1489
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2013, 13 years before Manu’s American Bbq's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3726 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1489
No shared contest yet.
Level with Manu’s American Bbq on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3683 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1489
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 7 years before Manu’s American Bbq's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3677 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1515
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 9 years before Manu’s American 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.9884 | 160.5484 | 164.27 | top 82% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 173.1200 | 169.1316 | 171.13 | top 36% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 176.5944 | 168.0116 | 172.30 | top 26% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.8456 | 143.8972 | 155.37 | top 79% |
“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 72% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 74% |
The story so far (11 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0.2 yrs
2026-04-11 → 2026-06-20
Busiest season
2026
2 contests
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 172.30 · weakest Brisket (155.37)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 1 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 2 contests
Master average
663.07
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
45
18–47 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
45
2 mapped stops
Power rating
1489
peak 1489 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2026
- First tracked contest BBQ Expo Master's Challenge
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score649.0288 BBQ Expo Master's Challenge
- First call The War of Barbeque
- Career-best overall score677.1084 The War of Barbeque
- Career-best single call (Pork)176.5944 The War of Barbeque
- Most recent contest The War of Barbeque
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 73% | 94% | 92.1% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-20 | The War of Barbeque Peschiera del Garda, 37019 | 18 / 25 (677.1084) | 25 (160.5484) | 8 (173.1200) | 3 (176.5944) | 17 (166.8456) |
| 2026-04-11 | BBQ Expo Master's Challenge PARMA, 43126 | 31 / 42 (649.0288) | 27 (167.9884) | 17 (169.1316) | 17 (168.0116) | 38 (143.8972) |