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
- 2022-03-25
JR RIBS
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1522
peak 1522 · rated over 3 contests ⓘ
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
2019-03-23
latest 2022-11-12
Best ToY finish
#647
Master 2022
Grand champs
1
0 reserve
Category wins
0
3 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
of 5 contests
Avg finish
top 56%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
661.31
last 5 Master vs avg 661.31 (+0.00)
Walk rate
60%
contests with a top-10 call
Top-10 streak
2
best run (overall)
Consistency
±18.14
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Brisket
avg 167.63 · weakest Pork (162.71)
Road miles
1,670
mi across 5 mapped stops · furthest 1670 mi
Schedule strength
1%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1501)
Master avg
661.31 / 720
5 Master contests · 1 GC
Storylines (4 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.
The weak link
−4.9
points behind their best meat
Pork is where the weekend gets away from them — it averages 4.92 points below their brisket, and turns into a call 0% of the time against 60%.
- Pork avg 162.71
- Brisket avg 167.63
- 0 calls in 5 entries
A strong matchup
3–0
ahead in the head-to-head
Ahead in 100% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of Comparrillas in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
The comeback
2.1 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 2.1 years, then back at Fuego y Humo 2021 (2021-04-23).
- last seen 2019-03-23
- back 2021-04-23
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.
JR RIBS has 3 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 93 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.
#2433 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 80%
- Peak
- 1522
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#2424 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1525
No shared contest yet.
Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2019.
⚔ Head-to-head#2436 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 50%
- Peak
- 1522
No shared contest yet.
Level with JR RIBS on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2445 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1522
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 6 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#2419 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1522
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 4 years before JR RIBS's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2444 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1532
No shared contest yet.
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.
⚔ Head-to-headBy 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 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 177.7600 | 155.4172 | 165.05 | top 53% |
| 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 contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 3 | 1 | top 30% |
| Large (40+) | 2 | 0 | top 94% |
The story so far (18 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
3.6 yrs
2019-03-23 → 2022-11-12
Busiest season
2022
3 contests · 1 GC
Contests a season
1.7
across 3 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
AL
2 of 5 contests
Contests visited
5
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
6 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Brisket
averages 167.63 · weakest Pork (162.71)
Walk rate
60%
a top-10 call in 3 of 5 contests
Overall top-10 rate
40%
2 of 5 contests
Wins it all
20%
1 Grand Championship · 0 reserve
First title
2022-03-25
BBQ Fest Costa Rica 2022
Best top-10 run
2
straight contests
Master average
661.31
out of 720 · 5 contests · 1 GC
Opponents faced
141
62–160 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
1,670
5 mapped stops · furthest 1,670 mi
Schedule strength
1501
average field rating faced — tougher than 1% of rated contests
Longest layoff
2.1 yrs
2019-03-23 → 2021-04-23
Power rating
1522
peak 1522 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2019
- First tracked contest BBQFest Costa Rica 2019
- First call BBQFest Costa Rica 2019
- 2021
- First overall top-10 Fuego y Humo 2021
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score652.5256 Fuego y Humo 2021
- 2022
- 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
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +15.9 | BBQ Fest Costa Rica 2022 | 2022-03-25 |
| +8.5 | Fuego y Humo 2021 | 2021-04-23 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -2.3 | BBQFest Costa Rica 2019 | 2019-03-23 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-11-12 | 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) |
| 2022-11-11 | 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) |
| 2022-03-25 | BBQ Fest Costa Rica 2022 San Jose, | 1 / 28 (694.9028) | 3 (172.0228) | 2 (177.7600) | 18 (166.2628) | 2 (178.8572) |
| 2021-04-23 | Fuego y Humo 2021 San Jose, | 6 / 22 (652.5256) | 5 (165.1656) | 12 (157.1200) | 11 (166.2400) | 5 (165.7028) |
| 2019-03-23 | BBQFest Costa Rica 2019 San Jose, 1000 | 13 / 22 (640.5484) | 14 (160.5600) | 18 (158.2972) | 15 (157.1312) | 8 (164.5600) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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) |