The comeback
1.9 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 1.9 years, then back at Silicon Valley BBQ Championship (2017-06-23).
- last seen 2015-07-24
- back 2017-06-23
T & A BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1489
peak 1489 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
2015-07-24
latest 2019-06-21
Grand champs
0
1 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 93%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
25%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 167.39 · weakest Pork Ribs (146.79)
Road miles
1,561
mi across 4 mapped stops · furthest 1561 mi
Purse competed for
$25K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Master avg
619.76 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
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.
T & A 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 156 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.
#3666 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#3654 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1503
No shared contest yet.
Level with T & A BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3698 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1500
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#3697 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1489
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#3661 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#3683 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1489
No shared contest yet.
Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2015.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 171.9656 | 162.8112 | 167.39 | top 78% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 146.7888 | 146.7888 | 146.79 | top 94% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.8228 | 158.8228 | 158.82 | top 70% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 151.3372 | 151.3372 | 151.34 | top 83% |
“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
3.9 yrs
2015-07-24 → 2019-06-21
Busiest season
2019
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 4 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
CA
3 of 4 contests · 2 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 167.39 · weakest Pork Ribs (146.79)
Walk rate
25%
a top-10 call in 1 of 4 contests
Overall top-10 rate
25%
1 of 4 contests
Master average
619.76
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
118
66–51 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
1,561
4 mapped stops · furthest 1,561 mi
Purse competed for
$25,000
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
1.9 yrs
2015-07-24 → 2017-06-23
Power rating
1489
peak 1489 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2015
- First tracked contest Up in Smoke BBQ Bash
- Career-best overall score619.7600 Up in Smoke BBQ Bash
- 2019
- First call Silicon Valley BBQ Championship
- First overall top-10 Silicon Valley BBQ Championship
- First overall podium Silicon Valley BBQ Championship
- First Reserve Championship Silicon Valley BBQ Championship
- Career-best single call (Chicken)171.9656 Silicon Valley BBQ Championship
- Most recent contest Silicon Valley BBQ Championship
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 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | — | — | — |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 93% | 86.1% | 86.1% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-06-21 | Silicon Valley BBQ Championship 🏅 unrated Santa Clara, CA | 2 (329.6796) | 3 (171.9656) | — | — | — |
| 2018-06-22 | Silicon Valley BBQ Championship Santa Clara, CA | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2017-06-23 | Silicon Valley BBQ Championship Santa Clara, CA | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2015-07-24 | Up in Smoke BBQ Bash Mason City, IA | 50 / 54 (619.7600) | 42 (162.8112) | 51 (146.7888) | 38 (158.8228) | 45 (151.3372) |