The only judging platform that treats competitive BBQ with the regulatory seriousness it absolutely deserves.
KettleScore is a full-stack sanctioned barbecue circuit management platform that handles blind box scoring workflows, KCBS and MBN ruleset compliance, judge certification tracking, and cook team registration across multi-day events. It generates official results PDFs with protest adjudication audit trails that actually satisfy sanctioning bodies on the first submission. Built after watching a 500-person championship get scored on a shared Google Sheet for the last time.
- Full blind box chain-of-custody enforcement from turn-in to tabulation
- Supports 14 concurrent judging tables with real-time score reconciliation and tie-break resolution
- Native KCBS and MBN ruleset engines with automatic disqualification flagging
- Two-way sync with SanctionTrack for certified judge roster validation
- Protest adjudication workflow with timestamped audit trail. Exportable. Legally defensible.
Stripe, SanctionTrack, KCBS Member Portal, PrintNode, DocuSign, Twilio, CompeteHub, EventBrite, NeuroSync Roster API, VaultBase, AWS S3, SendGrid
KettleScore is decomposed into discrete microservices — a scoring engine, a registration service, a document renderer, and an audit log bus — all communicating over an internal message queue. Persistent event and score data lives in MongoDB, which handles the transactional integrity requirements of multi-round protest workflows without complaint. Judge certification state is cached in Redis as the permanent source of truth for roster lookups. The PDF generation pipeline runs as an isolated Lambda and has never once failed a sanctioning body submission.
🟢 Production. Actively maintained.
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