Riding a hot streak
6
straight overall top-10s
Currently on a 6-contest overall top-10 run.
- career best 6
No Name
No Name is a competition barbecue team with 8 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2024 and 2026. They have won 1 Grand Championship, at the Smoke in the North (2025). They are ranked #1492 of 6,491 teams in the KCBS power rankings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1565
peak 1565 · rated over 8 contests
Contests
8
in the data
First seen
Aug 16, 2024
latest Aug 22, 2026 · 2 years on the trail
Grand champs
1
0 reserve · wins it all 13% of the time
Category wins
6
8 podiums
Overall top-10s
6
75% of 8 contests
Best top-10 run
6
straight overall top-10s, still running
Avg finish
top 30%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
2 🔥
Current form
687.62 ▲
last 5 Master vs avg 682.17 (+5.45)
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±10.15
spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 171.56 · weakest Pork Ribs (169.13)
Road miles
2,662
across 8 mapped stops · furthest 515 mi
Schedule strength
22%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1530)
Master avg
682.17 / 720
8 Master contests · 1 GC
Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to No Name, each with one reason worth a look.
31 rated teams sit within a point of this rating, so a place on this list means the numbers match — no more than that.
#1,494 of the rated field
- Contests
- 15
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1583
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 15 contests to 8.
⚔ Compare careers#1,493 of the rated field
- Contests
- 18
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 28%
- Peak
- 1568
Their last contest in the data was back in 2015, 11 years before No Name's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#1,495 of the rated field
- Contests
- 24
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 25%
- Peak
- 1577
24 contests and no Grand Championship yet — a rating made of 25% top-10 finishes rather than wins.
⚔ Compare careers#1,491 of the rated field
- Contests
- 29
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1593
They were already cooking in 2016, 8 years before No Name's first contest.
⚔ Compare careers#1,490 of the rated field
- Contests
- 48
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 25%
- Peak
- 1573
Level with No Name on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#1,506 of the rated field
- Contests
- 33
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 61%
- Peak
- 1563
1–1 in 2 shared contests (50% to No Name)
2 contests in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team No Name has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headFamiliar foes (most-met opponents in overall standings — one meeting per contest)
| Opponent | Meetings | Ahead | Behind | Win rate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AlltimeBBQ | 5 | 5 | 0 | 100% | ⚔ compare |
By meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 8 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 180 🔥 | 165.1656 | 171.56 | top 34% |
| Pork Ribs | 8 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 175.4400 | 161.6684 | 169.13 | top 39% |
| Pork | 8 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 173.7372 | 158.2168 | 170.20 | top 34% |
| Brisket | 8 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 180 🔥 | 165.0740 | 171.27 | top 28% |
“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 field size and state
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 3 | 0 | top 47% |
| Medium (20–39) | 5 | 1 | top 20% |
Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smoke in the North | 2 | 1 | 1 | top 28% | Aug 22, 2025 |
| Smoke in the North (Day 2) | 2 | 3 | 0 | top 15% | Aug 22, 2026 |
| BBQ Festival Vanamoisa, Estonia | 2 | 5 | 0 | top 60% | Aug 15, 2025 |
More numbers
Busiest season
2026
4 contests
Contests a season
2.7
across 3 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
LT
1 of 8 contests
Contests visited
5
3 of them more than once
First title
Aug 22, 2025
Smoke in the North
Opponents faced
93
finished ahead 128 times, behind 36
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20264 milestones
- First perfect 180 (Chicken) Twin Smoke
- Career-best overall score694.2400 Smoke in the North (Day 2)
- Peak power rating (1565) Smoke in the North (Day 2)
- Most recent contest Smoke in the North (Day 2)
20256 milestones
- First category win (Chicken) BBQ Festival Vanamoisa, Estonia
- First overall top-10 BBQ Festival Vanamoisa, Estonia
- First multi-meat day BBQ Festival Vanamoisa, Estonia
- First overall podium Smoke in the North
- First Grand Championship Smoke in the North
- Biggest field won (31 teams) Smoke in the North
20243 milestones
- First tracked contest BBQ Festival Vanamoisa, Estonia
- First call BBQ Festival Vanamoisa, Estonia
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score681.6452 BBQ Festival Vanamoisa, Estonia
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +16.8 | Smoke in the North | Aug 22, 2025 |
| +13.3 | Twin Smoke | May 15, 2026 |
| +12.4 | Smoke in the North (Day 2) | Aug 22, 2026 |
| +10.3 | Smoke in the North (Day 1) | Aug 21, 2026 |
| +10 | Polish Open Grill and BBQ Championships | Jun 5, 2026 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -5.4 | BBQ Festival Vanamoisa, Estonia | Aug 16, 2024 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 100% | top 16% | 96.4% | 95.9% |
| 2025 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 100% | top 24% | 93.7% | 93.7% |
| 2024 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 64% | 94.7% | 93.4% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 2026 | Smoke in the North (Day 2) Boras | 3 / 26 (694.2400) | 10 (172.5484) | 5 (173.1316) | 4 (173.1544) | 5 (175.4056) |
| Aug 21, 2026 | Smoke in the North (Day 1) Boras | 5 / 28 (693.7144) | 2 (177.7372) | 19 (166.2628) | 12 (171.4172) | 1 (178.2972) |
| Jun 5, 2026 | Polish Open Grill and BBQ Championships Mazowieckie | 3 / 14 (690.2512) | 9 (166.2400) | 6 (170.9028) | 3 (173.1084) | 1 (180) |
| May 15, 2026 | Twin Smoke Vilnius, Lithuania | 3 / 23 (685.0168) | 1 (180) | 8 (168.5256) | 6 (168.5140) | 4 (167.9772) |
| Aug 22, 2025 | Smoke in the North Rolfstorp | 1 / 31 (674.8680) | 10 (165.1656) | 5 (166.8112) | 1 (173.1656) | 4 (169.7256) |
| Aug 15, 2025 | BBQ Festival Vanamoisa, Estonia Saue | 5 / 11 (674.2512) | 1 (173.7028) | 10 (161.6684) | 1 (173.7372) | 6 (165.1428) |
| Aug 23, 2024 | Smoke in the North Rolfstorp | 12 / 23 (663.3364) | 13 (166.2740) | 4 (170.2856) | 20 (158.2168) | 7 (168.5600) |
| Aug 16, 2024 | BBQ Festival Vanamoisa, Estonia Saue Parish | 12 / 16 (681.6452) | 10 (170.8456) | 4 (175.4400) | 11 (170.2856) | 13 (165.0740) |