A multi-meat day
1
contests 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 Sth East BeerBQ (2019-02-16).
- Chicken 1st
- Pork Ribs 1st
Butchers Axe BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1527
peak 1528 · rated over 4 contests ⓘ
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
2018-02-03
latest 2019-11-04
Best ToY finish
#755
Master 2020
Grand champs
1
1 reserve
Category wins
2
6 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 34%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
655.78
last 4 Master vs avg 655.78 (+0.00)
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Top-10 streak
2
best run (overall)
Consistency
±20.60
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 165.98 · weakest Pork (161.98)
Road miles
63
mi across 4 mapped stops
Schedule strength
7%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1510)
Purse competed for
$5K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
Master avg
655.78 / 720
4 Master contests · 1 GC
Storylines (3 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.
High-water mark
682.8572
career-best overall
94.8% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 682.8572 at Heat Beads BBQ Turf Wars — 94.8% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2018-11-05
A strong matchup
3–1
ahead in the head-to-head
Ahead in 75% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of Big Boy BBQ Australia in 3 of their 4 shared contests.
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.
Butchers Axe BBQ has 4 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 70 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.
#2302 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 29%
- Peak
- 1529
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 7 contests to 4.
⚔ Head-to-head#2288 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1533
No shared contest yet.
Their rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 5 contests, alongside a 60% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-head#2287 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1527
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 5 years after Butchers Axe BBQ did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-head#2294 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1537
No shared contest yet.
Level with Butchers Axe BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2295 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1527
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#2286 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1527
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2016, 3 years before Butchers Axe 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 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 169.7028 | 159.9312 | 165.98 | top 35% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 171.4172 | 154.2628 | 165.71 | top 27% |
| Pork | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 166.8572 | 150.8000 | 161.98 | top 46% |
| Brisket | 4 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 175.4400 | 150.2628 | 162.12 | top 38% |
“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 | 1 | top 10% |
| Medium (20–39) | 3 | 0 | top 42% |
The story so far (17 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1.7 yrs
2018-02-03 → 2019-11-04
Busiest season
2019
2 contests · 1 GC
Contests a season
2
across 2 seasons in the data
Contests visited
4
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
4 entries · 1 win · 2 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 165.98 · weakest Pork (161.98)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 4 of 4 contests
Overall top-10 rate
50%
2 of 4 contests
Wins it all
25%
1 Grand Championship · 1 reserve
First title
2019-02-16
Sth East BeerBQ
Best top-10 run
2
straight contests
Master average
655.78
out of 720 · 4 contests · 1 GC
Opponents faced
67
51–30 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
63
4 mapped stops
Schedule strength
1510
average field rating faced — tougher than 7% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$5,000
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
Power rating
1527
peak 1528 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2018
- First tracked contest Melbourne Barbecue Festival
- First call Melbourne Barbecue Festival
- First overall top-10 Heat Beads BBQ Turf Wars
- First overall podium Heat Beads BBQ Turf Wars
- First Reserve Championship Heat Beads BBQ Turf Wars
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score682.8572 Heat Beads BBQ Turf Wars
- Career-best overall score682.8572 Heat Beads BBQ Turf Wars
- Career-best single call (Brisket)175.4400 Heat Beads BBQ Turf Wars
- 2019
- First category win (Chicken) Sth East BeerBQ
- First Grand Championship Sth East BeerBQ
- First multi-meat day Sth East BeerBQ
- Peak power rating (1528) Sth East BeerBQ
- Most recent contest Heatbeads BBQ Turf Wars
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +15.7 | Sth East BeerBQ | 2019-02-16 |
| +15.3 | Heat Beads BBQ Turf Wars | 2018-11-05 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -2.8 | Melbourne Barbecue Festival | 2018-02-03 |
| -1.6 | Heatbeads BBQ Turf Wars | 2019-11-04 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 100% | top 32% | 92.4% | 91.2% |
| 2018 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 36% | 94.8% | 91% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-11-04 | Heatbeads BBQ Turf Wars Cranbourne Melbourne, 3950 | 15 / 28 (647.9084) | 11 (165.7028) | 5 (167.9656) | 12 (163.9772) | 21 (150.2628) |
| 2019-02-16 | Sth East BeerBQ Tynong Vic, 3813 | 1 / 10 (665.1312) | 1 (168.5712) | 1 (169.1772) | 2 (166.8572) | 3 (160.5256) |
| 2018-11-05 | Heat Beads BBQ Turf Wars Cranbourne Victoria, 3977 | 2 / 21 (682.8572) | 6 (169.7028) | 3 (171.4172) | 9 (166.2972) | 3 (175.4400) |
| 2018-02-03 | Melbourne Barbecue Festival Melbourn, 8008 | 16 / 26 (627.2340) | 16 (159.9312) | 17 (154.2628) | 20 (150.8000) | 9 (162.2400) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 ↗ | Master | #755 (103 pts) | #690 (123 pts) | #586 (178 pts) | #749 (118 pts) | #855 (73 pts) |
| 2019 ↗ | Master | #804 (363 pts) | #835 (383 pts) | #754 (438 pts) | #874 (353 pts) | #1012 (283 pts) |