Perfect scores on the board
1
perfect 180s
1 perfect 180 in the data — every judge at the table handing back a nine, all in pork ribs.
- Pork Ribs ×1
Big Family BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1526
peak 1526 · rated over 3 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2025-03-28
latest 2026-04-10
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
1
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 27%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
1 🔥
Current form
680.17
last 3 Master vs avg 680.17 (+0.00)
Walk rate
67%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±5.56
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 171.60 · weakest Chicken (168.55)
Road miles
232
mi across 3 mapped stops · furthest 77 mi
Schedule strength
26%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1535)
Purse competed for
$80K
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 3 state-championship entries
Master avg
680.17 / 720
3 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.
High-water mark
687.9656
career-best overall
95.6% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 687.9656 at Cedar Fest BBQ Cookoff — 95.6% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2025-03-28
Announced themselves early
5th
at their very first contest
Finished 5 of 48 at their very first tracked contest, Cedar Fest BBQ Cookoff (2025-03-28).
- 2025-03-28
- 48-team field
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 Family BBQ has 3 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 71 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.
#2317 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1531
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#2302 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 29%
- Peak
- 1529
No shared contest yet.
Level with Big Family BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2311 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1526
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2016, 10 years before Big Family BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2316 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1526
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 6 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#2304 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1526
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2019, 6 years before Big Family BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#2312 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 50%
- Peak
- 1526
No shared contest yet.
3 straight overall top-10s says this rating is a moving target.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.8572 | 166.8228 | 168.55 | top 38% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 180.0000 🔥 | 166.8228 | 171.60 | top 35% |
| Pork | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 175.4400 | 165.7144 | 169.16 | top 38% |
| Brisket | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 175.4400 | 165.7028 | 170.86 | top 25% |
“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 (17 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1 yrs
2025-03-28 → 2026-04-10
Busiest season
2025
2 contests
Contests a season
1.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
TX
3 of 3 contests
Contests visited
3
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
3 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 171.60 · weakest Chicken (168.55)
Walk rate
67%
a top-10 call in 2 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
33%
1 of 3 contests
Master average
680.17
out of 720 · 3 contests · 0 GCs
Perfect 180s
1
every judge at the table handing back a nine
Opponents faced
154
132–46 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
232
3 mapped stops · furthest 77 mi
Schedule strength
1535
average field rating faced — tougher than 26% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$80,000
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 3 state-championship entries
Power rating
1526
peak 1526 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2025
- First tracked contest Cedar Fest BBQ Cookoff
- First call Cedar Fest BBQ Cookoff
- First category win (Pork Ribs) Cedar Fest BBQ Cookoff
- First overall top-10 Cedar Fest BBQ Cookoff
- First perfect 180 (Pork Ribs) Cedar Fest BBQ Cookoff
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score687.9656 Cedar Fest BBQ Cookoff
- Career-best overall score687.9656 Cedar Fest BBQ Cookoff
- 2026
- Peak power rating (1526) Cedar Fest BBQ Cook Off
- Most recent contest Cedar Fest BBQ Cook Off
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +14.9 | Cedar Fest BBQ Cookoff | 2025-03-28 |
| +7.6 | Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff | 2025-09-12 |
| +3.4 | Cedar Fest BBQ Cook Off | 2026-04-10 |
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 | 100% | top 41% | 94% | 94% |
| 2025 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 50% | top 20% | 95.6% | 94.7% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-10 | Cedar Fest BBQ Cook Off 🏅 Cedar Park, TX | 17 / 41 (677.1088) | 19 (167.9772) | 20 (167.9772) | 22 (165.7144) | 10 (175.4400) |
| 2025-09-12 | Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff 🏅 Waller, TX | 27 / 92 (675.4284) | 19 (170.8572) | 51 (166.8228) | 49 (166.3200) | 11 (171.4284) |
| 2025-03-28 | Cedar Fest BBQ Cookoff 🏅 Cedar Park, TX | 5 / 48 (687.9656) | 22 (166.8228) | 1 (180.0000) | 4 (175.4400) | 19 (165.7028) |