High-water mark
664.5148
career-best overall
92.3% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 664.5148 at New Jersey State Barbecue Championship — 92.3% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2026-07-11
Lilhambones
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1501
peak 1501 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2026-07-11
latest 2026-07-11
Best ToY finish
#927
Master 2026
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 52%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 169.68 · weakest Chicken (161.14)
Road miles
32
mi across 2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$17K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Master avg
664.51 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Still inside their first twelve months: see what a first season usually looks like.
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.
Lilhambones 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 102 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.
#3167 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 5 years before Lilhambones's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3158 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1510
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3154 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2013, 13 years before Lilhambones's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3178 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
Level with Lilhambones on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3150 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1519
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2015, 11 years before Lilhambones's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3164 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1501
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2014, 12 years before Lilhambones's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.1432 | 161.1432 | 161.14 | top 69% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.6916 | 165.6916 | 165.69 | top 48% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.6800 | 169.6800 | 169.68 | top 34% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.0000 | 168.0000 | 168.00 | top 39% |
“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
0 yrs
2026-07-11 → 2026-07-11
Busiest season
2026
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
NJ
2 of 2 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 169.68 · weakest Chicken (161.14)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 2 contests
Master average
664.51
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
61
30–31 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
32
2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$16,700
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
7.3 yrs
2019-03-08 → 2026-07-11
Power rating
1501
peak 1501 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2019
- First tracked contest Mid Atlantic BBQ Expo
- 2026
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score664.5148 New Jersey State Barbecue Championship
- Career-best overall score664.5148 New Jersey State Barbecue Championship
- Career-best single call (Pork)169.6800 New Jersey State Barbecue Championship
- Most recent contest New Jersey State Barbecue 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 52% | 92.3% | 92.3% |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-11 | New Jersey State Barbecue Championship 🏅 North Wildwood, NJ | 32 / 62 (664.5148) | 43 (161.1432) | 30 (165.6916) | 21 (169.6800) | 24 (168.0000) |
| 2019-03-08 | Mid Atlantic BBQ Expo Atlantic City, NJ | — | — | — | — | — |
Career map (orange GC · green top-10 · grey the rest — tap a pin)
Team of the Year standings (rank per category by season — year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 ↗ | Master | #927 (60 pts) | #1010 (60 pts) | #1051 (60 pts) | #920 (80 pts) | #937 (65 pts) |