A multi-meat day
1
contest with 2+ category wins
They've won two or more meats on the same day 1 time — the best of them 2 category wins at Harbor-Que (BACKYARD ONLY) (Oct 6, 2018).
- Chicken 1st
- Pork Ribs 1st
SOON TO BE SAUCED
SOON TO BE SAUCED is a competition barbecue team with 6 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2018 and 2019. Their best overall finish is 6th of 40 at the Central Illinois BBQ Throwdown (2019). They finished #1954 in the 2018 Master Series Team of the Year standings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1494
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 4
Contests
6
in the data
First seen
May 4, 2018
latest Jul 19, 2019 · 1.2 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
2
2 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
17% of 6 contests
Avg finish
top 64%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
67%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±7.82
spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 165.70 · weakest Brisket (151.01)
Road miles
449
across 6 mapped stops · furthest 95 mi
Schedule strength
55%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1571)
Purse competed for
$6,300
listed at 1 contest — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 3 state-championship entries
Master avg
638.36 / 720
3 Master contests · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
317.09 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 0 GCs
These overall scores sit on different scales (Master out of 720, Backyard out of 360), so they're kept separate — averaging them together would be misleading.
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 ↗ | Master | #1954 (60 pts) | #2012 (60 pts) | #1540 (135 pts) | #2030 (60 pts) | #1990 (60 pts) |
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to SOON TO BE SAUCED, each with one reason worth a look.
SOON TO BE SAUCED has 4 rated contests, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 129 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#3,480 of the rated field
- Contests
- 13
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
0–1 in 1 shared contest (0% to SOON TO BE SAUCED)
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team SOON TO BE SAUCED has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head#3,451 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1494
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#3,455 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1494
Level with SOON TO BE SAUCED on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#3,460 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1507
They were already cooking in 2013, 5 years before SOON TO BE SAUCED's first contest.
⚔ Compare careers#3,486 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1505
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#3,473 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1494
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careersBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 165.6800 | 158.8344 | 160.76 | top 47% |
| Pork Ribs | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 167.9888 | 148.5260 | 160.20 | top 43% |
| Pork | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 172.0228 | 158.2400 | 165.70 | top 46% |
| Brisket | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.9544 | 141.6684 | 151.01 | top 85% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 2 | 0 | top 81% |
| Large (40+) | 2 | 0 | top 48% |
Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Route 66 Smoke Out | 2 | 28 | 0 | top 81% | May 3, 2019 |
More numbers
Contests a season
3
across 2 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
IL
6 of 6 contests
Contests visited
3
1 of them more than once
Opponents faced
127
finished ahead 72 times, behind 98
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20193 milestones
- Career-best single call (Pork)172.0228 Route 66 Smoke Out
- First overall top-10 Central Illinois BBQ Throwdown
- Most recent contest Central Illinois BBQ Throwdown
20186 milestones
- First tracked contest Route 66 Smoke Out
- First call Route 66 Smoke Out
- Career-best overall score646.7088 Route 66 Smoke Out
- Peak power rating (1494) Route 66 Smoke Out
- First category win (Chicken) Harbor-Que (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First multi-meat day Harbor-Que (BACKYARD ONLY)
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +13.2 | Central Illinois BBQ Throwdown | Jul 19, 2019 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -8.8 | Route 66 Smoke Out | May 3, 2019 |
| -5.8 | Route 66 Smoke Out | May 4, 2018 |
| -4.8 | BBQ SmokeDown at Chicagoland | Jun 28, 2019 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 67% | top 61% | 89% | 88.1% |
| 2018 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 67% | top 74% | 89.8% | 89.8% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 2019 | Central Illinois BBQ Throwdown 🏅 Peoria, IL | 6 / 40 (317.0856) | 5 (159.4056) | 9 (157.6800) | — | — |
| Jun 28, 2019 | BBQ SmokeDown at Chicagoland 🏅 Joliet, IL | 34 / 42 (640.4688) | 34 (158.8344) | 24 (163.3944) | 17 (166.8228) | 37 (151.4172) |
| May 3, 2019 | Route 66 Smoke Out 🏅 Dwight, IL | 29 / 33 (627.8972) | 16 (165.6800) | 31 (148.5260) | 6 (172.0228) | 32 (141.6684) |
| Oct 6, 2018 | Harbor-Que (BACKYARD ONLY) Winthrop Harbor, IL | — | 1 (159.3600) | 1 (163.4172) | — | — |
| Jul 20, 2018 | Central Illinois BBQ Throwdown (JUDGES FULL) Peoria, IL | — | — | — | — | — |
| May 4, 2018 | Route 66 Smoke Out Dwight, IL | 28 / 38 (646.7088) | 29 (160.5256) | 10 (167.9888) | 30 (158.2400) | 27 (159.9544) |