Perfect scores on the board
1
perfect 180
1 perfect 180 in the data — every judge at the table handing back a nine, all in pork.
- Pork ×1
JIMMY QUE
JIMMY QUE is a competition barbecue team with 8 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record in 2022. Their best overall finish is 24th of 29 at The High on the Hog Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) (2022).
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1492
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 1
Contests
8
in the data
First seen
May 20, 2022
latest May 20, 2022
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
1
1 podium
Overall top-10s
0
0% of 8 contests
Avg finish
top 83%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
1 🔥
Walk rate
25%
contests with a top-10 call
Best single call
180 🔥
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 166.24 · weakest Pork (164.54)
Road miles
321
across 8 mapped stops · furthest 67 mi
Purse competed for
$3,900
listed at 1 contest — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 1 state-championship entry
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 ↗ | Backyard | — | #330 (64 pts) | #329 (64 pts) | — | — |
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to JIMMY QUE, each with one reason worth a look.
JIMMY QUE has 1 rated contest, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 146 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#3,576 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1512
Fewer contests behind them than JIMMY QUE has cooked, 5 to 8, which makes theirs the less settled rating of the two.
⚔ Compare careers#3,550 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1492
Level with JIMMY QUE on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#3,569 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1505
Fewer contests behind them than JIMMY QUE has cooked, 5 to 8, which makes theirs the less settled rating of the two.
⚔ Compare careers#3,530 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 5 years before JIMMY QUE's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#3,548 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
They were already cooking in 2015, 7 years before JIMMY QUE's first contest.
⚔ Compare careers#3,578 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1492
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 5 years before JIMMY QUE's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careersBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 174.8456 | 160.5028 | 166.24 | top 57% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.1200 | 158.2400 | 165.11 | top 56% |
| Pork | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 180 🔥 | 150.2056 | 164.54 | top 55% |
“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.
More numbers
Busiest season
2015
3 contests
Contests a season
2
across 4 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
TN
8 of 8 contests
Contests visited
1
a different one every time
Opponents faced
28
finished ahead 5 times, behind 23
Longest layoff
4.6 yrs
Oct 27, 2017 → May 20, 2022
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20222 milestones
- Career-best overall score319.3256 The High on the Hog Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Most recent contest The High on the Hog Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
20172 milestones
- First category win (Pork) First Tennessee Bank Bluegrass & BBQ (COMPETITOR'S SERIES) (JUDGES FULL)
- First perfect 180 (Pork) First Tennessee Bank Bluegrass & BBQ (COMPETITOR'S SERIES) (JUDGES FULL)
20151 milestone
20141 milestone
- First tracked contest Lewisburg Rotary Club BBQ CookOff
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% | 88.7% | 88.7% |
| 2017 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 50% | — | — | — |
| 2015 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33% | — | — | — |
| 2014 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 20, 2022 | The High on the Hog Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) 🏅 Winchester, TN | 24 / 29 (319.3256) | 23 (161.0856) | 23 (158.2400) | — | — |
| Oct 27, 2017 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Shade Tree Contest (BACKYARD) Lynchburg, TN | — | 30 (160.5028) | 19 (165.1084) | 28 (163.4168) | — |
| Sep 22, 2017 | First Tennessee Bank Bluegrass & BBQ (COMPETITOR'S SERIES) (JUDGES FULL) Columbia, TN | — | 15 (168.5256) | 13 (169.1200) | 1 (180) | — |
| Oct 23, 2015 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Shade Tree Contest (BACKYARD - JUDGES FULL) Lynchburg, TN | — | 4 (174.8456) | 17 (167.9884) | 39 (150.2056) | — |
| May 22, 2015 | Lewisburg Rotary Club BBQ CookOff Lewisburg, TN | — | — | — | — | — |
| Apr 17, 2015 | High on the Hog Festival Winchester, TN | — | — | — | — | — |
| Oct 10, 2014 | Smoke in the Valley Pikeville, TN | — | — | — | — | — |
| May 24, 2014 | Lewisburg Rotary Club BBQ CookOff Lewisburg, TN | — | — | — | — | — |