High-water mark
683.3944
career-best overall
94.9% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 683.3944 at Kora Kares for Kids — 94.9% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2026-08-15
Oceangrove BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1490
peak 1490 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2026-05-16
latest 2026-08-15
Best ToY finish
#803
Master 2026
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 75%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
33%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 171.60 · weakest Brisket (153.97)
Road miles
124
mi across 3 mapped stops · furthest 124 mi
Purse competed for
$12K
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
649.31 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs
Still inside their first twelve months: see what a first season usually looks like.
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.
Oceangrove 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 160 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.
#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 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#3651 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2017, 9 years before Oceangrove BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3654 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1503
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2023, 3 years before Oceangrove BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3618 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1491
No shared contest yet.
Level with Oceangrove BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3641 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1490
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 7 years before Oceangrove BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3639 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1490
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 8 years before Oceangrove 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 | 169.6912 | 158.2400 | 163.97 | top 76% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 177.7144 | 164.5256 | 171.60 | top 36% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 174.8572 | 145.6684 | 160.26 | top 61% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.1316 | 146.8000 | 153.97 | top 92% |
“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 state / province
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| ME | 1 | 0 | top 53% |
| MA | 1 | 0 | top 97% |
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 97% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 53% |
The story so far (14 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0.2 yrs
2026-05-16 → 2026-08-15
Busiest season
2026
3 contests
Cooks most in
ME
2 of 3 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
3 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 171.60 · weakest Brisket (153.97)
Walk rate
33%
a top-10 call in 1 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 3 contests
Master average
649.31
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
63
25–55 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
124
3 mapped stops · furthest 124 mi
Purse competed for
$11,525
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Power rating
1490
peak 1490 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2026
- First tracked contest Mass in May (Day 2)
- First call Kora Kares for Kids
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score683.3944 Kora Kares for Kids
- Career-best overall score683.3944 Kora Kares for Kids
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)177.7144 Kora Kares for Kids
- Most recent contest Kora Kares for Kids
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 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33% | top 75% | 94.9% | 90.2% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-15 | Kora Kares for Kids 🏅 Hiram, ME | 27 / 51 (683.3944) | 33 (169.6912) | 6 (177.7144) | 11 (174.8572) | 46 (161.1316) |
| 2026-08-15 | Kora Kares for Kids (ONE MEAT RIBS) Hiram, ME | — | — | 11 (172.5716) | — | — |
| 2026-05-16 | Mass in May (Day 2) 🏅 Wrentham, MA | 30 / 31 (615.2340) | 27 (158.2400) | 23 (164.5256) | 31 (145.6684) | 29 (146.8000) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 ↗ | Master | #803 (116 pts) | #869 (116 pts) | #485 (371 pts) | #643 (186 pts) | #821 (116 pts) |