The comeback
1.9 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 1.9 years, then back at Route 66 Smoke Out (2019-05-03).
- last seen 2017-06-16
- back 2019-05-03
Big Fern's BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1495
peak 1495 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2019-05-03
latest 2019-05-03
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 76%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 164.57 · weakest Pork Ribs (153.69)
Road miles
158
mi across 3 mapped stops · furthest 47 mi
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Master avg
638.17 / 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.
Big Fern's 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 125 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.
#3424 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1510
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#3406 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1495
No shared contest yet.
Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2019.
⚔ Head-to-head#3404 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
Level with Big Fern's BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3402 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1495
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#3415 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1495
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#3414 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1504
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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.5144 | 160.5144 | 160.51 | top 82% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 153.6916 | 153.6916 | 153.69 | top 85% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164.5716 | 164.5716 | 164.57 | top 58% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.3944 | 159.3944 | 159.39 | top 64% |
“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 (15 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0 yrs
2019-05-03 → 2019-05-03
Busiest season
2017
2 contests
Contests a season
1.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
IL
3 of 3 contests
Contests visited
1
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
1 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 164.57 · weakest Pork Ribs (153.69)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 3 contests
Master average
638.17
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
32
8–24 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
158
3 mapped stops · furthest 47 mi
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
1.9 yrs
2017-06-16 → 2019-05-03
Power rating
1495
peak 1495 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2017
- First tracked contest Up In smoke on the Square
- 2019
- Career-best overall score638.1720 Route 66 Smoke Out
- Career-best single call (Pork)164.5716 Route 66 Smoke Out
- Most recent contest Route 66 Smoke Out
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 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 76% | 88.6% | 88.6% |
| 2017 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-05-03 | Route 66 Smoke Out 🏅 Dwight, IL | 25 / 33 (638.1720) | 27 (160.5144) | 28 (153.6916) | 19 (164.5716) | 21 (159.3944) |
| 2017-06-16 | *Hog Capital Challenge(JUDGES FULL) Kewanee, IL | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2017-06-02 | Up In smoke on the Square Lincoln, IL | — | — | — | — | — |