#3620 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headSlow Joe BBQ 2
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1491
peak 1504 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2020-08-15
latest 2023-08-26
Best ToY finish
#596
Master 2020
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 69%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 173.14 · weakest Brisket (143.11)
Road miles
74
mi across 2 mapped stops
Master avg
645.32 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs
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.
Slow Joe BBQ 2 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.
#3610 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
Level with Slow Joe BBQ 2 on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3609 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1491
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3618 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1491
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2015, 5 years before Slow Joe BBQ 2's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3590 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1491
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2020, 3 years before Slow Joe BBQ 2's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3599 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1491
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 5 years before Slow Joe BBQ 2'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 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 171.9656 | 162.2284 | 167.10 | top 44% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 173.7144 | 172.5600 | 173.14 | top 32% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 164.5716 | 159.3828 | 161.98 | top 74% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 151.3716 | 134.8456 | 143.11 | 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.
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 43% |
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 95% |
The story so far (13 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
3 yrs
2020-08-15 → 2023-08-26
Busiest season
2023
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 173.14 · weakest Brisket (143.11)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 2 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
50%
1 of 2 contests
Master average
645.32
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
25
9–24 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
74
2 mapped stops
Longest layoff
3 yrs
2020-08-15 → 2023-08-26
Power rating
1491
peak 1504 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2020
- First tracked contest Slow Joe's Barn Burner
- First call Slow Joe's Barn Burner
- First overall top-10 Slow Joe's Barn Burner
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score661.6232 Slow Joe's Barn Burner
- Career-best overall score661.6232 Slow Joe's Barn Burner
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)173.7144 Slow Joe's Barn Burner
- 2023
- Most recent contest Smoke in the North Edition Q in the Swamp
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)
Team of the Year rank by season
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 | 100% | top 95% | 87.4% | 87.4% |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 43% | 91.9% | 91.9% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-26 | Smoke in the North Edition Q in the Swamp Rolfstorp, | 20 / 21 (629.0168) | 14 (162.2284) | 6 (172.5600) | 16 (159.3828) | 21 (134.8456) |
| 2020-08-15 | Slow Joe's Barn Burner Vedum, | 6 / 14 (661.6232) | 3 (171.9656) | 5 (173.7144) | 10 (164.5716) | 13 (151.3716) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 ↗ | Master | #1206 (71 pts) | #1156 (101 pts) | #977 (161 pts) | #1171 (91 pts) | #1271 (66 pts) |
| 2020 ↗ | Master | #596 (154 pts) | #511 (214 pts) | #622 (164 pts) | #766 (114 pts) | #788 (99 pts) |