LEGION OF QUE

At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)

Power ranking

#1694

of 6,413 rated · rankings

Rating

1552

peak 1552 · rated over 10 contests ⓘ

Contests

in the data

First seen

2016-06-03

latest 2019-09-20

Best ToY finish

#1691

Master 2017

Grand champs

0 reserve

Category wins

4 podiums

Overall top-10s

of 10 contests

Avg finish

top 43%

overall standings

Best overall

689.6568 / 720

Master · Jammin' in JC BBQ Contest

Perfect 180s

1 🔥

Current form

638.55 ▼

last 5 Master vs avg 652.33 (-13.78)

Walk rate

70%

contests with a top-10 call

Best single call

180.0000 🔥

Brisket · Jammin' in JC BBQ Contest

Consistency

±59.70

std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)

Strongest meat

Pork Ribs

avg 168.79 · weakest Brisket (164.61)

Road miles

3,101

mi across 10 mapped stops · furthest 1271 mi

Schedule strength

65%

of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1582)

Purse competed for

$8K

listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings

State championships

0 🏅

GCs in 1 state-championship entries

Master avg

652.33 / 720

10 Master contests · 0 GCs

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Storylines (11 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.

Perfect scores on the board

1 perfect 180s

1 perfect 180 in the data — every judge at the table handing back a nine, all in brisket.

Brisket ×1

They almost always walk

70% of contests with a top-10 call

A call in 7 of 10 contests

A top-10 category call in 70% of their 10 contests — they get to the stage more often than not.

High-water mark

689.6568 career-best overall

95.8% of a perfect 720

Their best day on record: 689.6568 at Jammin' in JC BBQ Contest — 95.8% of a perfect 720.

Master
2016-09-23

Their season

2018 their best year

2018 was the year it came together: 3 contests, 0 Grand Championships and 0 category wins, at an average finish in the top 26%.

3 contests
1 overall top-10s
0 category wins
average top 26%

A tough matchup

6–0 behind in the head-to-head

THE SMOKING HILLS ahead in 100% of their meetings

THE SMOKING HILLS has come out ahead in 6 of their 6 shared contests.

The weak link

−4.2 points behind their best meat

Brisket is where the weekend gets away from them — it averages 4.18 points below their pork ribs, and turns into a call 22% of the time against 40%.

Brisket avg 164.61
Pork Ribs avg 168.79
2 calls in 9 entries

A strong matchup

4–1 ahead in the head-to-head

Ahead in 80% of their meetings

They've finished ahead of DAWGHOUSE BBQ in 4 of their 5 shared contests.

Pork Ribs nemesis

4 of 6 shared pork ribs entries lost

THE SMOKING HILLS ahead 67% of the time

Even in their strongest meat, THE SMOKING HILLS has out-cooked them in 4 of 6 shared pork ribs entries.

Boom or bust

±8.29% swing around their own average

Their overall swings ±8.29% of a perfect score around its own average — when it lands they're dangerous, and when it doesn't the weekend is gone by lunch.

averages 90.6% of a perfect score
best 95.8%

A September team

Top 21% average finish in September

Something about September: average finish in the top 21% across 3 contests, versus top 43% the rest of the year.

3 September contests
top 43% the rest of the year

The long haul

3,101 road miles between contests

Contest to contest, they've covered roughly 3,101 miles across 10 mapped stops — the longest single trip being 1,271 miles to *OC BBQ Competition.

10 mapped stops
furthest 1,271 mi

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.

57 rated teams sit within a point of this rating, so a place on this list means the numbers match — no more than that.

Last Best BBQ

#1693 of the rated field

1552 ▼ 0 power rating

Contests: 10
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 40%
Peak: 1552

No shared contest yet.

This is the highest they've ever been rated, 10 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.

rated over 10 contests
last seen 2026-08-28

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SMOKIN OFF THE GRID

#1696 of the rated field

1552 ▼ 0 power rating

Contests: 11
GCs: 1
Top-10s: 9%
Peak: 1552

No shared contest yet.

Careers of much the same size, 11 contests to 10, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.

rated over 10 contests
last seen 2017-09-01

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Big Daddy G's

#1692 of the rated field

1552 ▼ 0 power rating

Contests: 10
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 30%
Peak: 1555

No shared contest yet.

Level with LEGION OF QUE on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.

rated over 9 contests
last seen 2020-11-21

⚔ Head-to-head

GETTA QUE

#1691 of the rated field

1552 ▲ 0 power rating

Contests: 12
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 33%
Peak: 1555

No shared contest yet.

12 contests and no Grand Championship yet — a rating made of 33% top-10 finishes rather than wins.

rated over 12 contests
last seen 2019-05-04

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BIG DICK'S BBQ

#1702 of the rated field

1552 ▼ 0 power rating

Contests: 12
GCs: 1
Top-10s: 17%
Peak: 1553

No shared contest yet.

Their last contest in the data was back in 2016, 3 years before LEGION OF QUE's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.

rated over 12 contests

⚔ Head-to-head

FLYING PIG & SONS BBQ

#1698 of the rated field

1552 ▼ 0 power rating

Contests: 12
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 25%
Peak: 1552

No shared contest yet.

This is the highest they've ever been rated, 12 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.

rated over 12 contests
last seen 2015-06-12

⚔ Head-to-head

Familiar foes (most-met opponents in overall standings — one meeting per contest)

Opponent	Meetings	Ahead	Behind	Win rate
MAN MEAT BBQ	6	4	2	67%	⚔ compare
THE SMOKING HILLS	6	0	6	0%	⚔ compare
DAWGHOUSE BBQ	5	4	1	80%	⚔ compare
HIGH i QUE	5	0	5	0%	⚔ compare

By meat

Category	Entries	Calls	Wins	Podiums	Best	Worst	Average	Avg finish
Chicken	10	3	0	1	175.4400	161.1084	168.15	top 46%
Pork Ribs	10	4	1	1	177.7028	156.5372	168.79	top 34%
Pork	10	2	0	1	177.1428	154.8344	167.25	top 45%
Brisket	9	2	1	1	180.0000 🔥	155.3600	164.61	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 state / province

Where	Contests	GCs	Avg finish
KS	8	0	top 32%
CA	2	0	top 87%

By contest size

Field	Contests	GCs	Avg finish
Medium (20–39)	4	0	top 45%
Large (40+)	6	0	top 41%

Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)

Contest	Visits	Best	GCs	Avg finish	Last visit
*Big Blue BBQ Championship(TEAMS FULL)	2	9	0	top 29%	2018-06-01
Smoke in the Spring	2	39	0	top 47%	2018-04-06

The story so far (17 numbers that describe this team)

On the trail 3.3 yrs 2016-06-03 → 2019-09-20

Busiest season 2017 4 contests

Contests a season 2.5 across 4 seasons in the data

Cooks most in KS 8 of 10 contests · 2 states/provinces in all

Contests visited 8 2 of them cooked more than once

Most-entered meat Chicken 10 entries · 0 wins · 3 calls

Strongest meat Pork Ribs averages 168.79 · weakest Brisket (164.61)

Walk rate 70% a top-10 call in 7 of 10 contests

Overall top-10 rate 30% 3 of 10 contests

Master average 652.33 out of 720 · 10 contests · 0 GCs

Perfect 180s 1 every judge at the table handing back a nine

Opponents faced 364 318–233 across every shared overall standing

Road miles 3,101 10 mapped stops · furthest 1,271 mi

Schedule strength 1582 average field rating faced — tougher than 65% of rated contests

Purse competed for $8,000 listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings

State championships 0 from 1 state-championship entries

Power rating 1552 peak 1552 · #1694 of 6,413 rated

Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)

2016
Jun 3 First tracked contest Big Blue BBQ Championship
Jun 3 First call Big Blue BBQ Championship
Jun 3 First overall past 90% of a perfect score662.3088 Big Blue BBQ Championship
Sep 23 First category win (Brisket) Jammin' in JC BBQ Contest
Sep 23 First overall top-10 Jammin' in JC BBQ Contest
Sep 23 First perfect 180 (Brisket) Jammin' in JC BBQ Contest
Sep 23 Career-best overall score689.6568 Jammin' in JC BBQ Contest
2019
Sep 20 10th tracked contest Little Apple Classic Car & BBQ Cook Off
Sep 20 Peak power rating (1552) Little Apple Classic Car & BBQ Cook Off
Sep 20 Most recent contest Little Apple Classic Car & BBQ Cook Off

Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)

📈 Biggest rating jumps

Swing	Contest	Date
+12.8	*Big Blue BBQ Championship(TEAMS FULL)	2018-06-01
+12	Jammin' in JC BBQ Contest	2016-09-23
+11.6	*Smoke On the Trails	2018-09-28
+10.7	Little Apple Classic Car & BBQ Cook Off	2019-09-20
+7.5	Smoke in the Spring	2018-04-06

📉 Toughest weekends

Swing	Contest	Date
-11.4	*Indio California State BBQ Championship & Festival( JUDGES FULL)	2017-11-03
-5.2	*OC BBQ Competition	2017-10-13
-0.1	Smoke in the Spring (WFC Quilfyer)	2017-04-07

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	Top-10s	Category wins	Walk rate	Avg finish	Best overall (% of perfect)	Avg overall (% of perfect)
2019	1	1	1	100%	top 21%	95.6%	95.6%
2018	3	1	0	67%	top 26%	95%	93.9%
2017	4	0	0	50%	top 67%	93.2%	85.3%
2016	2	1	1	100%	top 30%	95.8%	93.9%

Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)

Date	Event	Overall	Chicken	Ribs	Pork	Brisket
2019-09-20	Little Apple Classic Car & BBQ Cook Off 🏅 Manhattan, KS	5 / 24 (688.5028)	8 (171.9656)	1 (177.7028)	15 (168.0000)	6 (170.8344)
2018-09-28	*Smoke On the Trails Gardner, KS	13 / 68 (683.9200)	14 (173.1200)	9 (175.4172)	38 (164.5372)	13 (170.8456)
2018-06-01	*Big Blue BBQ Championship(TEAMS FULL) Marysville, KS	9 / 42 (673.7032)	7 (172.5600)	21 (163.4404)	11 (170.3200)	16 (167.3828)
2018-04-06	Smoke in the Spring Osage City, KS	39 / 103 (669.5772)	38 (169.6800)	45 (167.9772)	12 (174.2628)	74 (157.6572)
2017-11-03	*Indio California State BBQ Championship & Festival( JUDGES FULL) Indio, CA	35 / 35 (477.0516)	24 (165.6800)	31 (156.5372)	32 (154.8344)	—
2017-10-13	*OC BBQ Competition Costa Messa, CA	41 / 56 (650.7660)	46 (161.1544)	12 (171.4172)	34 (162.8344)	50 (155.3600)
2017-04-21	9th Annual VFW Post 846 BBQ Challenge Overland Park, KS	24 / 64 (670.7884)	29 (167.3944)	27 (164.0000)	3 (177.1428)	34 (162.2512)
2017-04-07	Smoke in the Spring (WFC Quilfyer) Osage City, KS	57 / 100 (657.0284)	71 (163.3828)	10 (174.2972)	77 (159.4056)	64 (159.9428)
2016-09-23	Jammin' in JC BBQ Contest Junction City, KS	9 / 39 (689.6568)	29 (161.1084)	10 (171.9656)	5 (176.5828)	1 (180.0000)
2016-06-03	Big Blue BBQ Championship Marysville, KS	11 / 30 (662.3088)	2 (175.4400)	11 (165.1316)	13 (164.5600)	19 (157.1772)

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
2017 ↗	Master	#1691 (125 pts)	#1802 (120 pts)	#1443 (195 pts)	#1142 (295 pts)	#1794 (120 pts)