High-water mark
175.4400
career-best overall
97.5% of a perfect 180
Their best day on record: 175.4400 at Smoke in the Spring — 97.5% of a perfect 180.
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- Apr 9, 2021
Aidan Wagner
Aidan Wagner is a competition barbecue team with 6 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record in 2021. Their best overall finish is 3rd of 105 at the Smoke in the Spring (2021).
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1518
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 1
Contests
6
in the data
First seen
Apr 9, 2021
latest Apr 9, 2021
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
17% of 6 contests
Avg finish
top 3%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Road miles
1,334
across 6 mapped stops · furthest 413 mi
Purse competed for
$25K
listed at 4 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 5 state-championship entries
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to Aidan Wagner, each with one reason worth a look.
Aidan Wagner has 1 rated contest, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 82 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#2,532 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1519
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#2,535 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1526
Level with Aidan Wagner on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#2,536 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1519
Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2021.
⚔ Compare careers#2,534 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1519
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 3 years before Aidan Wagner's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#2,542 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1532
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 3 years before Aidan Wagner's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#2,555 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1518
Their last contest in the data was back in 2015, 6 years before Aidan Wagner's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careersBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|
“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.
More numbers
Busiest season
2021
3 contests
Contests a season
2
across 3 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
KS
2 of 6 contests · 3 states in all
Contests visited
1
a different one every time
Opponents faced
130
finished ahead 125 times, behind 4
Longest layoff
1.3 yrs
Jun 10, 2022 → Sep 27, 2023
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20231 milestone
- Most recent contest American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Kids Que
20215 milestones
- First tracked contest Smoke in the Spring
- First overall top-10 Smoke in the Spring
- First overall podium Smoke in the Spring
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score175.4400 Smoke in the Spring
- Career-best overall score175.4400 Smoke in the Spring
Scores over time (% of a perfect score — tap a meat to add it)
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2022 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2021 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0% | top 3% | 97.5% | 97.5% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 27, 2023 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Kids Que Kansas City, KS | — | — | — | — | — |
| Jun 10, 2022 | Bring'n Home the Bacon Day 1 (MASTER & BACKYARD) 🏅 West Salem, WI | — | — | — | — | — |
| Apr 1, 2022 | Iowa State BBQ Championship 🏅 Altoona, IA | — | — | — | — | — |
| Jul 30, 2021 | 5th Annual E'burg BBQ Contest 🏅 Emmetsburg, IA | — | — | — | — | — |
| Jun 11, 2021 | Bring'n Home the Bacon - Day 1 🏅 West Salem, WI | — | — | — | — | — |
| Apr 9, 2021 | Smoke in the Spring 🏅 Osage City, KS | 3 / 105 (175.4400) | — | — | — | — |