#2270 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 2
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1528
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headCHEF J BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1528
peak 1528 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2019-09-12
latest 2019-10-11
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 10%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Brisket
avg 159.68 · weakest Chicken (151.70)
Road miles
11
mi across 2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$78K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
623.87 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs
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.
CHEF J BBQ 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 74 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.
#2264 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 100%
- Peak
- 1528
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 5 years after CHEF J BBQ did, first appearing in 2024.
⚔ Head-to-head#2260 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 71%
- Peak
- 1528
No shared contest yet.
Level with CHEF J BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2268 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1528
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2014, 5 years before CHEF J BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2275 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 29%
- Peak
- 1529
No shared contest yet.
Their rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 7 contests, alongside a 29% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-head#2259 of the rated field
- Contests
- 8
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 13%
- Peak
- 1528
No shared contest yet.
This is the highest they've ever been rated, 8 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.2740 | 149.1200 | 151.70 | top 95% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.1316 | 146.8228 | 155.98 | top 75% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.2628 | 150.7772 | 156.52 | top 79% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.2632 | 157.0972 | 159.68 | top 67% |
“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 (14 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0.1 yrs
2019-09-12 → 2019-10-11
Busiest season
2019
2 contests
Cooks most in
KS
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Brisket
averages 159.68 · weakest Chicken (151.70)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
50%
1 of 2 contests
Master average
623.87
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
497
428–87 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
11
2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$78,425
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Power rating
1528
peak 1528 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2019
- First tracked contest 40th American Royal World Series of Barbecue- OPEN CONTEST
- Career-best overall score643.9316 40th American Royal World Series of Barbecue- OPEN CONTEST
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)165.1316 40th American Royal World Series of Barbecue- OPEN CONTEST
- First overall top-10 Cookin on the Kaw BBQ Contest(JUDGES FULL)
- Most recent contest Cookin on the Kaw BBQ Contest(JUDGES FULL)
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0% | top 10% | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-10-11 | Cookin on the Kaw BBQ Contest(JUDGES FULL) 🏅 DeSoto, KS | 5 / 51 (175.4056) | 51 (149.1200) | 50 (146.8228) | 48 (150.7772) | 41 (157.0972) |
| 2019-09-12 | 40th American Royal World Series of Barbecue- OPEN CONTEST 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 44 / 468 (502.2284) | 417 (154.2740) | 245 (165.1316) | 300 (162.2628) | 255 (162.2632) |