High-water mark
670.1256
career-best overall
93.1% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 670.1256 at Luna County Heritage Days Festival — 93.1% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2026-05-15
AZ Buckeye BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1508
peak 1508 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
1
in the data
First seen
2026-05-15
latest 2026-05-15
Best ToY finish
#665
Master 2026
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 1 contests
Avg finish
top 38%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Brisket
avg 176.56 · weakest Chicken (160.50)
Purse competed for
$9K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Master avg
670.13 / 720
1 Master contest · 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.
AZ Buckeye BBQ 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 119 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.
#2901 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1515
No shared contest yet.
5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where AZ Buckeye BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head#2892 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1520
No shared contest yet.
Level with AZ Buckeye BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2903 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1513
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2017, 9 years before AZ Buckeye BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#2906 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 50%
- Peak
- 1527
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2022, 4 years before AZ Buckeye BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2915 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1512
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 8 years before AZ Buckeye BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2905 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1508
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2016, 10 years before AZ Buckeye 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 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 160.5028 | 160.5028 | 160.50 | top 63% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 167.9772 | 167.9772 | 167.98 | top 44% |
| Pork | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 165.0856 | 165.0856 | 165.09 | top 50% |
| Brisket | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 176.5600 | 176.5600 | 176.56 | top 13% |
“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 (13 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0 yrs
2026-05-15 → 2026-05-15
Busiest season
2026
1 contest
Cooks most in
NM
1 of 1 contests
Contests visited
1
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
1 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Brisket
averages 176.56 · weakest Chicken (160.50)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 1 of 1 contests
Overall top-10 rate
100%
1 of 1 contests
Master average
670.13
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
15
10–5 across every shared overall standing
Purse competed for
$8,500
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Power rating
1508
peak 1508 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2026
- First tracked contest Luna County Heritage Days Festival
- First call Luna County Heritage Days Festival
- First overall top-10 Luna County Heritage Days Festival
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score670.1256 Luna County Heritage Days Festival
- Career-best overall score670.1256 Luna County Heritage Days Festival
- Career-best single call (Brisket)176.5600 Luna County Heritage Days Festival
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 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 38% | 93.1% | 93.1% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-15 | Luna County Heritage Days Festival 🏅 Deming, NM | 6 / 16 (670.1256) | 10 (160.5028) | 7 (167.9772) | 8 (165.0856) | 2 (176.5600) |
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 | #665 (156 pts) | #869 (116 pts) | #803 (146 pts) | #738 (136 pts) | #566 (241 pts) |