A tough matchup
3–0
behind in the head-to-head
Key Energy Services ahead in 100% of their meetings
Key Energy Services has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
Brigade Energy Services
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1493
peak 1493 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2021-09-29
latest 2023-09-28
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
1
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 50%
overall standings
Best overall
319.5084
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
33%
contests with a top-10 call
Best single call
166.9256
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 144.95 · weakest Brisket (141.17)
Road miles
137
mi across 2 mapped stops · furthest 69 mi
Backyard avg
258.33 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
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.
The comeback
2 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 2 years, then back at Permian Basin Barbeque Cook-off (COMPETITOR SERIES) (2023-09-28).
- last seen 2021-09-29
- back 2023-09-28
Announced themselves early
4th
at their very first contest
Finished 4 of 46 at their very first tracked contest, Simmons Energy Permian Basin BBQ cook Off Invitational (BACKYARD ONLY)(JUDGES FULL) ().
- 46-team field
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.
Brigade Energy Services has 1 rated contest — 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.
#3506 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1493
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#3491 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1503
No shared contest yet.
Level with Brigade Energy Services on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3496 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 5 years before Brigade Energy Services'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.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 6 years before Brigade Energy Services's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3494 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1513
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2015, 6 years before Brigade Energy Services's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3483 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1511
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2016, 7 years before Brigade Energy Services'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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 166.9256 | 114.8344 | 144.95 | top 42% |
| Pork | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
| Brisket | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 152.5828 | 127.4172 | 141.17 | top 47% |
“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
2 yrs
2021-09-29 → 2023-09-28
Busiest season
—
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 3 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
TX
3 of 3 contests
Contests visited
3
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
3 entries · 1 win · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 144.95 · weakest Brisket (141.17)
Walk rate
33%
a top-10 call in 1 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
33%
1 of 3 contests
Backyard average
258.33
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
145
84–101 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
137
2 mapped stops · furthest 69 mi
Longest layoff
2 yrs
2021-09-29 → 2023-09-28
Power rating
1493
peak 1493 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- First tracked contest Simmons Energy Permian Basin BBQ cook Off Invitational (BACKYARD ONLY)(JUDGES FULL)
- First call Simmons Energy Permian Basin BBQ cook Off Invitational (BACKYARD ONLY)(JUDGES FULL)
- First category win (Pork Ribs) Simmons Energy Permian Basin BBQ cook Off Invitational (BACKYARD ONLY)(JUDGES FULL)
- First overall top-10 Simmons Energy Permian Basin BBQ cook Off Invitational (BACKYARD ONLY)(JUDGES FULL)
- Career-best overall score319.5084 Simmons Energy Permian Basin BBQ cook Off Invitational (BACKYARD ONLY)(JUDGES FULL)
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)166.9256 Simmons Energy Permian Basin BBQ cook Off Invitational (BACKYARD ONLY)(JUDGES FULL)
- 2023
- Most recent contest Permian Basin Barbeque Cook-off (COMPETITOR SERIES)
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 100% | top 9% | — | — |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 69% | — | — |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 72% | 71.8% | 71.8% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-09-28 | Permian Basin Barbeque Cook-off (COMPETITOR SERIES) unrated Midland, TX | 61 / 88 (280.5140) | — | 30 (153.0968) | — | 75 (127.4172) |
| 2021-09-29 | Permain Basin Barbeque Cook-off (BACKYARD ONLY) MIDLAND, TX | 39 / 54 (258.3316) | — | 49 (114.8344) | — | 18 (143.4972) |
| Simmons Energy Permian Basin BBQ cook Off Invitational (BACKYARD ONLY)(JUDGES FULL) unrated Midland, TX | 4 / 46 (319.5084) | — | 1 (166.9256) | — | 11 (152.5828) |