High-water mark
338.2516
career-best overall
94.0% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 338.2516 at RiverFest — 94.0% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- Sep 13, 2019
That Just Ain't Right
That Just Ain't Right is a competition barbecue team with 8 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2019 and 2022. Their best overall finish is 5th of 54 at The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ (2019).
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1529
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 4
Contests
8
in the data
First seen
May 3, 2019
latest Sep 8, 2022 · 3.4 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
1
1 podium
Overall top-10s
2
25% of 8 contests
Avg finish
top 36%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±7.21
spread of their Backyard overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 165.89 · weakest Chicken (162.74)
Road miles
345
across 8 mapped stops · furthest 105 mi
Schedule strength
29%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1539)
Purse competed for
$44K
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 4 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
327.97 / 360
4 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 ↗ | Backyard | — | #162 (155 pts) | #211 (110 pts) | — | — |
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to That Just Ain't Right, each with one reason worth a look.
That Just Ain't Right has 4 rated contests, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 73 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#2,258 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1529
Fewer contests behind them than That Just Ain't Right has cooked, 5 to 8, which makes theirs the less settled rating of the two.
⚔ Compare careers#2,268 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1529
Level with That Just Ain't Right on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#2,262 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1529
Their last contest in the data was back in 2013, 9 years before That Just Ain't Right's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#2,266 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1539
They were already cooking in 2013, 6 years before That Just Ain't Right's first contest.
⚔ Compare careers#2,269 of the rated field
- Contests
- 8
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 25%
- Peak
- 1542
Careers of much the same size, 8 contests to 8, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#2,270 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1529
Careers of much the same size, 6 contests to 8, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careersBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 171.4172 | 153.1428 | 162.74 | top 50% |
| Pork Ribs | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 177.1772 | 154.8228 | 165.89 | top 42% |
“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 field size and state
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 2 | 0 | top 56% |
| Large (40+) | 2 | 0 | top 15% |
Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ | 2 | 10 | 0 | top 52% | Sep 8, 2022 |
More numbers
Busiest season
2019
2 contests
Contests a season
1.1
across 7 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
AL
7 of 8 contests · 2 states in all
Contests visited
3
1 of them more than once
Opponents faced
260
finished ahead 277 times, behind 102
Longest layoff
2.1 yrs
Jul 31, 2015 → Sep 15, 2017
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20221 milestone
- Most recent contest Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ
20211 milestone
- Peak power rating (1533) Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ
20195 milestones
- First category win (Pork Ribs) The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ
- First overall top-10 The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score330.3200 The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)177.1772 The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ
- Career-best overall score338.2516 RiverFest
20132 milestones
- First tracked contest I Grill Because I CARE (Competitor's Series)
- First call I Grill Because I CARE (Competitor's Series)
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +14.7 | The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ | May 3, 2019 |
| +10.4 | Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ | Aug 13, 2021 |
| +7.8 | RiverFest | Sep 13, 2019 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -4.2 | Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ | Sep 8, 2022 |
Scores over time (% of a perfect score — tap a meat to add it)
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 83% | 88.5% | 88.5% |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 20% | 90.2% | 90.2% |
| 2019 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 100% | top 19% | 94% | 92.9% |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 2022 | Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ 🏅 Huntsville, AL | 29 / 35 (318.7656) | 21 (163.9428) | 35 (154.8228) | — | — |
| Aug 13, 2021 | Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ 🏅 Huntsville, AL | 10 / 49 (324.5488) | 8 (164.0116) | 15 (160.5372) | — | — |
| Sep 13, 2019 | RiverFest 🏅 Decatur, AL | 11 / 37 (338.2516) | 15 (164.5372) | 4 (173.7144) | — | — |
| May 3, 2019 | The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ 🏅 Huntsville, AL | 5 / 54 (330.3200) | 34 (153.1428) | 1 (177.1772) | — | — |
| Sep 15, 2017 | Big Brother Big Sister Riverfest Decatur, AL | — | — | — | — | — |
| Jul 31, 2015 | I Grill Because I CARE (Competitor's Series) New Hope, AL | — | 31 (159.3712) | 21 (164.5140) | — | — |
| Aug 22, 2014 | Music City BBQ Festival Nashville, TN | — | — | — | — | — |
| Aug 17, 2013 | I Grill Because I CARE (Competitor's Series) New Hope, AL | — | 5 (171.4172) | 11 (164.5944) | — | — |