High-water mark
685.6568
career-best overall
95.2% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 685.6568 at Smokin' Deltana BBQ Challenge — 95.2% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2021-07-23
40 BELOW
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1516
peak 1516 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
1
in the data
First seen
2021-07-23
latest 2021-07-23
Grand champs
1
0 reserve
Category wins
1
4 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 1 contests
Avg finish
top 17%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Brisket
avg 174.32 · weakest Pork Ribs (166.82)
Purse competed for
$5K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
Master avg
685.66 / 720
1 Master contest · 1 GC
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.
40 BELOW 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 85 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.
#2617 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where 40 BELOW's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head#2620 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1526
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2013, 8 years before 40 BELOW's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#2616 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 4 years before 40 BELOW's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2608 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1523
No shared contest yet.
Level with 40 BELOW on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2621 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 100%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
6 straight overall top-10s says this rating is a moving target.
⚔ Head-to-head#2627 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1519
No shared contest yet.
6 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where 40 BELOW's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 170.2512 | 170.2512 | 170.25 | top 33% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 166.8228 | 166.8228 | 166.82 | top 33% |
| Pork | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 174.2628 | 174.2628 | 174.26 | top 33% |
| Brisket | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 174.3200 | 174.3200 | 174.32 | top 17% |
“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 (14 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0 yrs
2021-07-23 → 2021-07-23
Busiest season
2021
1 contest · 1 GC
Cooks most in
AK
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 174.32 · weakest Pork Ribs (166.82)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 1 of 1 contests
Overall top-10 rate
100%
1 of 1 contests
Wins it all
100%
1 Grand Championship · 0 reserve
First title
2021-07-23
Smokin' Deltana BBQ Challenge
Master average
685.66
out of 720 · 1 contest · 1 GC
Opponents faced
5
5–0 across every shared overall standing
Purse competed for
$5,000
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
Power rating
1516
peak 1516 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2021
- First tracked contest Smokin' Deltana BBQ Challenge
- First call Smokin' Deltana BBQ Challenge
- First category win (Brisket) Smokin' Deltana BBQ Challenge
- First overall top-10 Smokin' Deltana BBQ Challenge
- First overall podium Smokin' Deltana BBQ Challenge
- First Grand Championship Smokin' Deltana BBQ Challenge
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score685.6568 Smokin' Deltana BBQ Challenge
- Career-best overall score685.6568 Smokin' Deltana BBQ Challenge
- Career-best single call (Brisket)174.3200 Smokin' Deltana BBQ Challenge
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 100% | top 17% | 95.2% | 95.2% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-07-23 | Smokin' Deltana BBQ Challenge Delta Junction, AK | 1 / 6 (685.6568) | 2 (170.2512) | 2 (166.8228) | 2 (174.2628) | 1 (174.3200) |