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
- 2015-05-01
Just the Tip
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1496
peak 1507 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
2015-05-01
latest 2026-04-17
Best ToY finish
#1636
Master 2015
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
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
mi across 5 mapped stops · furthest 1616 mi
Purse competed for
$12K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Master avg
638.19 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs
Storylines (3 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.
The comeback
9.7 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 9.7 years, then back at Knox Co. 4-H/FFA Ring of Smoke (2026-04-17).
- last seen 2016-08-19
- back 2026-04-17
The long haul
3,068
road miles between contests
Contest to contest, they've covered roughly 3,068 miles across 5 mapped stops — the longest single trip being 1,616 miles to Knox Co. 4-H/FFA Ring of Smoke.
- 5 mapped stops
- furthest 1,616 mi
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.
Just the Tip has 2 rated contests — 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 122 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.
#3340 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1500
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#3366 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 9 years after Just the Tip did, first appearing in 2024.
⚔ Head-to-head#3363 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1496
No shared contest yet.
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.
⚔ Head-to-head#3369 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
Level with Just the Tip on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3342 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
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.
⚔ Head-to-head#3365 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1496
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2015, 11 years before Just the Tip'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 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 172.0000 | 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.
The story so far (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
11 yrs
2015-05-01 → 2026-04-17
Busiest season
2015
2 contests
Contests a season
1.3
across 4 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
CA
3 of 5 contests · 3 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 165.40 · weakest Pork Ribs (155.41)
Walk rate
20%
a top-10 call in 1 of 5 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 5 contests
Master average
638.19
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
57
23–35 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
3,068
5 mapped stops · furthest 1,616 mi
Purse competed for
$11,500
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
9.7 yrs
2016-08-19 → 2026-04-17
Power rating
1496
peak 1507 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2014
- First tracked contest Oaktown Throwdown
- 2015
- 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
- 2026
- Most recent contest Knox Co. 4-H/FFA Ring of Smoke
Category scores over time
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-17 | 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) |
| 2016-08-19 | Oaktown Throwdown BBQ Oakland, CA | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2015-07-31 | Oaktown Throwdown Oakland, CA | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2015-05-01 | Show Low BBQ Throwdown Show Low, AZ | 12 / 35 (667.3716) | 6 (172.0000) | 24 (161.1316) | 25 (159.9428) | 3 (174.2972) |
| 2014-08-01 | Oaktown Throwdown Oakland, CA | — | — | — | — | — |
Career map (orange GC · green top-10 · grey the rest — tap a pin)
Team of the Year standings (rank per category by season — 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) |