High-water mark
673.5772
career-best overall
93.6% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 673.5772 at Bear-B-Q — 93.6% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2026-05-01
A & K BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1500
peak 1500 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
1
in the data
First seen
2026-05-01
latest 2026-05-01
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 1 contests
Avg finish
top 58%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 173.71 · weakest Pork (165.09)
Purse competed for
$12K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Master avg
673.58 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Still inside their first twelve months: see what a first season usually looks like.
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.
A & K BBQ 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 112 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.
#3198 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1500
No shared contest yet.
5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where A & K BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head#3199 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2013, 13 years before A & K BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3167 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 5 years before A & K BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3189 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1508
No shared contest yet.
Level with A & K BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3194 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1514
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 8 years before A & K BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3185 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 8 years before A & K 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.5256 | 168.5256 | 168.53 | top 62% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 173.7144 | 173.7144 | 173.71 | top 27% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.0856 | 165.0856 | 165.09 | top 81% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2516 | 166.2516 | 166.25 | top 62% |
“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.
The story so far (13 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0 yrs
2026-05-01 → 2026-05-01
Busiest season
2026
1 contest
Cooks most in
NC
1 of 1 contests
Contests visited
1
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
1 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 173.71 · weakest Pork (165.09)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 1 of 1 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 1 contests
Master average
673.58
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
29
11–18 across every shared overall standing
Purse competed for
$12,000
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Power rating
1500
peak 1500 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 58% | 93.6% | 93.6% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-01 | Bear-B-Q 🏅 New Bern, NC | 15 / 26 (673.5772) | 16 (168.5256) | 7 (173.7144) | 21 (165.0856) | 16 (166.2516) |