High-water mark
667.3716
career-best overall
92.7% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 667.3716 at Show Low BBQ Throwdown — 92.7% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- May 1, 2015
Just the Tip
Just the Tip is a competition barbecue team with 5 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2015 and 2026. Their best overall finish is 12th of 35 at the Show Low BBQ Throwdown (2015). They finished #1636 in the 2015 Master Series Team of the Year standings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1496
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 2
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
May 1, 2015
latest Apr 17, 2026 · 11 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podium
Overall top-10s
0
0% of 5 contests
Avg finish
top 67%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
20%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 165.40 · weakest Pork Ribs (155.41)
Road miles
3,068
across 5 mapped stops · furthest 1,616 mi
Purse competed for
$12K
listed at 1 contest — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 1 state-championship entry
Master avg
638.19 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 ↗ | Master | #1636 (125 pts) | #1520 (175 pts) | #2175 (65 pts) | #2225 (60 pts) | #1245 (235 pts) |
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to Just the Tip, each with one reason worth a look.
Just the Tip 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 118 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#3,378 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1507
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#3,372 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1496
Their last contest in the data was back in 2023, 3 years before Just the Tip's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#3,368 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
Level with Just the Tip on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#3,373 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1505
Their last contest in the data was back in 2020, 6 years before Just the Tip's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#3,343 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1509
Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2015.
⚔ Compare careers#3,347 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1506
Their last contest in the data was back in 2016, 10 years before Just the Tip'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 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 172 | 158.8000 | 165.40 | top 57% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.1316 | 149.6800 | 155.41 | top 84% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.9428 | 159.4400 | 159.69 | top 82% |
| Brisket | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 174.2972 | 141.0972 | 157.70 | top 54% |
“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
2015
2 contests
Contests a season
1.3
across 4 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
CA
3 of 5 contests · 3 states in all
Contests visited
2
a different one every time
Opponents faced
57
finished ahead 23 times, behind 35
Longest layoff
9.7 yrs
Aug 19, 2016 → Apr 17, 2026
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20261 milestone
- Most recent contest Knox Co. 4-H/FFA Ring of Smoke
20154 milestones
- First call Show Low BBQ Throwdown
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score667.3716 Show Low BBQ Throwdown
- Career-best overall score667.3716 Show Low BBQ Throwdown
- Career-best single call (Brisket)174.2972 Show Low BBQ Throwdown
20141 milestone
- First tracked contest Oaktown Throwdown
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 100% | 84.6% | 84.6% |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2015 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 34% | 92.7% | 92.7% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 17, 2026 | Knox Co. 4-H/FFA Ring of Smoke 🏅 Edina, MO | 25 / 25 (609.0172) | 24 (158.8000) | 25 (149.6800) | 23 (159.4400) | 25 (141.0972) |
| Aug 19, 2016 | Oaktown Throwdown BBQ Oakland, CA | — | — | — | — | — |
| Jul 31, 2015 | Oaktown Throwdown Oakland, CA | — | — | — | — | — |
| May 1, 2015 | Show Low BBQ Throwdown Show Low, AZ | 12 / 35 (667.3716) | 6 (172) | 24 (161.1316) | 25 (159.9428) | 3 (174.2972) |
| Aug 1, 2014 | Oaktown Throwdown Oakland, CA | — | — | — | — | — |