#3758 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1488
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headSMOKIN JAY'S BARTZ-B-QUE
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1488
peak 1488 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2018-09-14
latest 2018-09-14
Best ToY finish
#1954
Master 2018
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 96%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 158.85 · weakest Chicken (136.29)
Purse competed for
$1K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Master avg
602.22 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
118.85 / 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.
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.
SMOKIN JAY'S BARTZ-B-QUE has 1 rated contest — 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 141 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.
#3748 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 80%
- Peak
- 1488
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 7 years after SMOKIN JAY'S BARTZ-B-QUE did, first appearing in 2025.
⚔ Head-to-head#3740 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
Level with SMOKIN JAY'S BARTZ-B-QUE on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3764 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1503
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3772 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1501
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3760 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 153.7372 | 118.8456 | 136.29 | top 94% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 142.8116 | 142.8116 | 142.81 | top 95% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.8456 | 158.8456 | 158.85 | top 73% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 146.8228 | 146.8228 | 146.82 | top 90% |
“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 100% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 93% |
The story so far (15 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0 yrs
2018-09-14 → 2018-09-14
Busiest season
—
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
CA
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 158.85 · weakest Chicken (136.29)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 2 contests
Master average
602.22
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Backyard average
118.85
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
57
3–55 across every shared overall standing
Purse competed for
$1,300
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Power rating
1488
peak 1488 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- First tracked contest Spring Valley Tailgate & BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- 2018
- Career-best overall score602.2172 America's Finest BBQ State Championship
- Career-best single call (Pork)158.8456 America's Finest BBQ State Championship
- Most recent contest America's Finest BBQ State Championship
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 100% | 33% | 33% |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 93% | 83.6% | 83.6% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-09-14 | America's Finest BBQ State Championship 🏅 San Diego, CA | 37 / 40 (602.2172) | 35 (153.7372) | 38 (142.8116) | 29 (158.8456) | 36 (146.8228) |
| Spring Valley Tailgate & BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Spring Valley, CA | 20 / 20 (118.8456) | 20 (118.8456) | — | — | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 ↗ | Master | #1954 (60 pts) | #2012 (60 pts) | #1996 (60 pts) | #2030 (60 pts) | #1990 (60 pts) |