High-water mark
694.9028
career-best overall
96.5% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 694.9028 at BBQ Fest Costa Rica 2022 — 96.5% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- Mar 25, 2022
JR RIBS
JR RIBS is a competition barbecue team with 5 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2019 and 2022. They have won 1 Grand Championship, at the BBQ Fest Costa Rica 2022 (2022). They finished #647 in the 2022 Master Series Team of the Year standings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1522
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 32 invitational or side-series contests not counted
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
Mar 23, 2019
latest Nov 12, 2022 · 3.6 years on the trail
Grand champs
1
0 reserve · wins it all 20% of the time
Category wins
0
3 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
40% of 5 contests
Best top-10 run
2
straight overall top-10s
Avg finish
top 56%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
60%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±18.14
spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Brisket
avg 167.63 · weakest Pork (162.71)
Road miles
1,670
across 5 mapped stops · furthest 1,670 mi
Schedule strength
1%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1500)
Master avg
661.31 / 720
5 Master contests · 1 GC
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 ↗ | Master | #938 (120 pts) | #1011 (120 pts) | #1118 (120 pts) | #989 (120 pts) | #989 (120 pts) |
| 2022 ↗ | Master | #647 (278 pts) | #783 (228 pts) | #761 (253 pts) | #1247 (88 pts) | #710 (253 pts) |
| 2021 ↗ | Master | #808 (162 pts) | #834 (172 pts) | #1189 (92 pts) | #1024 (117 pts) | #823 (172 pts) |
| 2019 ↗ | Master | #1677 (107 pts) | #1785 (102 pts) | #1891 (82 pts) | #1810 (97 pts) | #1445 (142 pts) |
Overall rank by season
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to JR RIBS, each with one reason worth a look.
JR RIBS has 3 rated contests, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 95 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#2,453 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 80%
- Peak
- 1522
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#2,457 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 50%
- Peak
- 1522
Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2019.
⚔ Compare careers#2,460 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1522
Level with JR RIBS on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#2,465 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1532
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 5 years before JR RIBS's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#2,458 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1522
Their last contest in the data was back in 2014, 8 years before JR RIBS's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#2,462 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 43%
- Peak
- 1531
Careers of much the same size, 7 contests to 5, 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 | 0 | 1 | 172.0228 | 160.5600 | 164.33 | top 58% |
| Pork Ribs | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 177.7600 | 155.4172 | 166.64 | top 52% |
| Pork | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2628 | 157.1312 | 162.71 | top 73% |
| Brisket | 5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 178.8572 | 163.9428 | 167.63 | top 47% |
“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) | 3 | 1 | top 30% |
| Large (40+) | 2 | 0 | top 94% |
More numbers
Busiest season
2022
3 contests · 1 GC
Contests a season
1.7
across 3 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
AL
2 of 5 contests
Contests visited
5
a different one every time
First title
Mar 25, 2022
BBQ Fest Costa Rica 2022
Opponents faced
141
finished ahead 62 times, behind 160
Longest layoff
2.1 yrs
Mar 23, 2019 → Apr 23, 2021
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20226 milestones
- First overall podium BBQ Fest Costa Rica 2022
- First Grand Championship BBQ Fest Costa Rica 2022
- Career-best overall score694.9028 BBQ Fest Costa Rica 2022
- Career-best single call (Brisket)178.8572 BBQ Fest Costa Rica 2022
- Peak power rating (1522) BBQ Fest Costa Rica 2022
- Most recent contest 4th Annual KCBS World Invitational - MASTER SERIES INVITATIONAL
20212 milestones
- First overall top-10 Fuego y Humo 2021
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score652.5256 Fuego y Humo 2021
20192 milestones
- First tracked contest BBQFest Costa Rica 2019
- First call BBQFest Costa Rica 2019
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +15.8 | BBQ Fest Costa Rica 2022 | Mar 25, 2022 |
| +8.4 | Fuego y Humo 2021 | Apr 23, 2021 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -2.4 | BBQFest Costa Rica 2019 | Mar 23, 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 33% | top 64% | 96.5% | 93.2% |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 27% | 90.6% | 90.6% |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 59% | 89% | 89% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 12, 2022 | 4th Annual KCBS World Invitational - MASTER SERIES INVITATIONAL unrated Gadsden, AL | 61 / 61 (658.6860) | 59 (161.6572) | 36 (171.4288) | 60 (160.5028) | 57 (165.0972) |
| Nov 11, 2022 | 4th Annual KCBS World Invitational - OPEN unrated Gadsden, AL | 80 / 91 (659.8744) | 87 (162.2516) | 37 (170.2744) | 78 (163.4056) | 69 (163.9428) |
| Mar 25, 2022 | BBQ Fest Costa Rica 2022 San Jose | 1 / 28 (694.9028) | 3 (172.0228) | 2 (177.7600) | 18 (166.2628) | 2 (178.8572) |
| Apr 23, 2021 | Fuego y Humo 2021 San Jose | 6 / 22 (652.5256) | 5 (165.1656) | 16 (155.4172) | 11 (166.2400) | 5 (165.7028) |
| Mar 23, 2019 | BBQFest Costa Rica 2019 San Jose | 13 / 22 (640.5484) | 14 (160.5600) | 18 (158.2972) | 15 (157.1312) | 8 (164.5600) |
An unrated contest — an invitational, or a Competitor or Kosher Series board — is in the record but doesn’t move the power rating.