Their season
2021
their best year
2021 was the year it came together: 3 contests, 0 Grand Championships and 0 category wins, at an average finish in the top 20%.
- 3 contests
- 0 overall top-10s
- 0 category wins
- average top 20%
Landon Elliott
Landon Elliott is a competition barbecue team with 9 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2018 and 2021. Their best overall finish is 21st of 105 at the Smoke in the Spring (2021).
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1500
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 2
Contests
9
in the data
First seen
Jul 27, 2018
latest Apr 9, 2021 · 2.7 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
0% of 9 contests
Avg finish
top 53%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Road miles
920
across 9 mapped stops · furthest 173 mi
Purse competed for
$17K
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 4 state-championship entries
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to Landon Elliott, each with one reason worth a look.
Landon Elliott has 2 rated contests, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 117 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#3,220 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1500
Fewer contests behind them than Landon Elliott has cooked, 5 to 9, which makes theirs the less settled rating of the two.
⚔ Compare careers#3,228 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1505
Level with Landon Elliott on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#3,219 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1507
They were already cooking in 2013, 5 years before Landon Elliott's first contest.
⚔ Compare careers#3,212 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1508
Fewer contests behind them than Landon Elliott has cooked, 5 to 9, which makes theirs the less settled rating of the two.
⚔ Compare careers#3,224 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1500
Fewer contests behind them than Landon Elliott has cooked, 5 to 9, which makes theirs the less settled rating of the two.
⚔ Compare careers#3,227 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
Fewer contests behind them than Landon Elliott has cooked, 5 to 9, which makes theirs the less settled rating of the two.
⚔ Compare careersBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|
“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
More numbers
Busiest season
2018
4 contests
Contests a season
2.3
across 4 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
MO
6 of 9 contests · 3 states in all
Contests visited
2
a different one every time
Opponents faced
184
finished ahead 98 times, behind 96
Longest layoff
1.6 yrs
Sep 20, 2019 → Apr 9, 2021
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20211 milestone
- Most recent contest Jesse James Barbeque Cook Out
20181 milestone
- Career-best overall score174.8572 Racing for the BBQ
20171 milestone
- First tracked contest Racing for the BBQ
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 20% | 86.7% | 86.7% |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2018 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 86% | 24.3% | 24.3% |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 17, 2021 | Jesse James Barbeque Cook Out 🏅 Kearney, MO | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sep 4, 2021 | Septemberfest BBQ & Rib-eye Steak cook-off challenge 🏅 Omaha, NE | — | — | — | — | — |
| Apr 9, 2021 | Smoke in the Spring 🏅 Osage City, KS | 21 / 105 (155.9772) | — | — | — | — |
| Sep 20, 2019 | Jesse James Barbeque Cook Out 🏅 Kearney, MO | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sep 14, 2018 | Jesse James Barbeque Cook Out Kearney, MO | — | — | — | — | — |
| Jul 27, 2018 | Racing for the BBQ Lee's Summit, MO | 57 / 66 (174.8572) | — | — | — | — |
| Jun 1, 2018 | 7th Annual Smokin on the Lake Monroe City, MO | — | — | — | — | — |
| Apr 6, 2018 | Smoke in the Spring Osage City, KS | — | — | — | — | — |
| Jul 28, 2017 | Racing for the BBQ Lee's Summit, MO | — | — | — | — | — |