High-water mark
663.4280
career-best overall
92.1% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 663.4280 at The Whistle Stop Festival & Rocket City BBQ — 92.1% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2013-05-03
GENERAL BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1494
peak 1504 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2013-05-03
latest 2021-06-11
Best ToY finish
#1970
Master 2013
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 64%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 172.00 · weakest Chicken (160.56)
Road miles
11
mi across 2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$2K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
Master avg
663.43 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
325.06 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 0 GCs
Master and Backyard overall scores sit on different scales (Master is out of 720, Backyard out of 360), so they're kept separate — averaging them together would be misleading.
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
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.
GENERAL BBQ has 2 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 122 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.
#3450 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1494
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3446 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1494
No shared contest yet.
Level with GENERAL BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3459 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 3 years before GENERAL BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3461 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1501
No shared contest yet.
Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2013.
⚔ Head-to-head#3443 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1494
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2015, 6 years before GENERAL BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3432 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2013, 8 years before GENERAL 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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.1426 | 159.9772 | 160.56 | top 80% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.4284 | 165.0856 | 166.26 | top 51% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 172.0000 | 172.0000 | 172.00 | top 19% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.8570 | 162.8570 | 162.86 | 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) | 1 | 0 | top 87% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 40% |
The story so far (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
8.1 yrs
2013-05-03 → 2021-06-11
Busiest season
2021
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
AL
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 172.00 · weakest Chicken (160.56)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 2 contests
Master average
663.43
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Backyard average
325.06
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
90
41–50 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
11
2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$1,650
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
Longest layoff
8.1 yrs
2013-05-03 → 2021-06-11
Power rating
1494
peak 1504 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2013
- First tracked contest The Whistle Stop Festival & Rocket City BBQ
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score663.4280 The Whistle Stop Festival & Rocket City BBQ
- Career-best overall score663.4280 The Whistle Stop Festival & Rocket City BBQ
- Career-best single call (Pork)172.0000 The Whistle Stop Festival & Rocket City BBQ
- 2021
- Most recent contest Reelin N Smokin Backyard BBQ Competition (BACKYARD ONLY)
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)
Season by season
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 87% | 90.3% | 90.3% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 40% | 92.1% | 92.1% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-06-11 | Reelin N Smokin Backyard BBQ Competition (BACKYARD ONLY) Huntsville, AL | 27 / 31 (325.0628) | 28 (159.9772) | 21 (165.0856) | — | — |
| 2013-05-03 | The Whistle Stop Festival & Rocket City BBQ Huntsville, AL | 25 / 62 (663.4280) | 43 (161.1426) | 21 (167.4284) | 12 (172.0000) | 29 (162.8570) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 ↗ | Master | #1970 (75 pts) | #2073 (75 pts) | #1936 (95 pts) | #1687 (140 pts) | #2034 (75 pts) |