The comeback
6.6 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 6.6 years, then back at Smoke on the Seaway (ONE MEAT RIBS) (2026-05-09).
- last seen 2019-10-11
- back 2026-05-09
Big Truck BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1488
peak 1488 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2019-10-11
latest 2019-10-11
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 100%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
67%
contests with a top-10 call
Best single call
169.7260
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 157.90 · weakest Brisket (20.00)
Road miles
790
mi across 2 mapped stops · furthest 790 mi
Purse competed for
$15K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Master avg
501.10 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
341.13 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 0 GCs
Master and Backyard overall scores sit on different scales (Master is out of 720, Backyard out of 360), so they're kept separate — averaging them together would be misleading.
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
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.
Big Truck 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 139 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.
#3758 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1488
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#3748 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 80%
- Peak
- 1488
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 6 years after Big Truck BBQ did, first appearing in 2025.
⚔ Head-to-head#3776 of the rated field
- Contests
- 9
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1509
No shared contest yet.
Level with Big Truck BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3740 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#3764 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1503
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#3772 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1501
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.9772 | 151.4056 | 155.69 | top 85% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 169.7260 | 147.3716 | 157.90 | top 62% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164.5140 | 20.0000 | 92.26 | top 80% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20.0000 | 20.0000 | 20.00 | top 100% |
“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 contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 100% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 100% |
The story so far (17 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0 yrs
2019-10-11 → 2019-10-11
Busiest season
—
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 3 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
IL
2 of 3 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
3 entries · 0 wins · 2 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 157.90 · weakest Brisket (20.00)
Walk rate
67%
a top-10 call in 2 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 3 contests
Master average
501.10
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Backyard average
341.13
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
62
0–63 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
790
2 mapped stops · furthest 790 mi
Purse competed for
$14,750
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
6.6 yrs
2019-10-11 → 2026-05-09
Power rating
1488
peak 1488 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- First tracked contest Decatur's Smokin BBQ Festival Backyard Competition Presented by Kenney's Ace Hardware(BACKYARD ONLY)
- First call Decatur's Smokin BBQ Festival Backyard Competition Presented by Kenney's Ace Hardware(BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score341.1316 Decatur's Smokin BBQ Festival Backyard Competition Presented by Kenney's Ace Hardware(BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)169.7260 Decatur's Smokin BBQ Festival Backyard Competition Presented by Kenney's Ace Hardware(BACKYARD ONLY)
- 2019
- Career-best overall score501.0968 Central Illinois Bragging Rights(CIBR-BBQ)
- 2026
- Most recent contest Smoke on the Seaway (ONE MEAT RIBS)
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 100% | 94.8% | 94.8% |
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | — | — | — |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 100% | 69.6% | 69.6% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-09 | Smoke on the Seaway (ONE MEAT RIBS) Cornwall, ON | — | — | 9 (147.3716) | — | — |
| 2019-10-11 | Central Illinois Bragging Rights(CIBR-BBQ) 🏅 Arthur, IL | 43 / 43 (501.0968) | 36 (159.9772) | 35 (156.6056) | 26 (164.5140) | 43 (20.0000) |
| Decatur's Smokin BBQ Festival Backyard Competition Presented by Kenney's Ace Hardware(BACKYARD ONLY) Decatur, IL | 22 / 22 (341.1316) | 19 (151.4056) | 3 (169.7260) | 22 (20.0000) | — |