High-water mark
331.9660
career-best overall
92.2% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 331.9660 at Foley BBQ & Blues Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY) — 92.2% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2026-03-13
A and J Catering
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1503
peak 1503 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
1
in the data
First seen
2026-03-13
latest 2026-03-13
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 1 contests
Avg finish
top 47%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 166.82 · weakest Pork (149.07)
Purse competed for
$3K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
Backyard avg
331.97 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here. 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.
A and J Catering 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 104 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.
#3103 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where A and J Catering's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head#3091 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1511
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2023, 3 years before A and J Catering's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3096 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1515
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2017, 9 years before A and J Catering's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3101 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
Level with A and J Catering on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3097 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1503
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 9 years before A and J Catering's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3118 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 9 years before A and J Catering'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 | 165.1432 | 165.1432 | 165.14 | top 47% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.8228 | 166.8228 | 166.82 | top 40% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 149.0744 | 149.0744 | 149.07 | top 90% |
| Brisket | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
“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 (12 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0 yrs
2026-03-13 → 2026-03-13
Busiest season
2026
1 contest
Cooks most in
AL
1 of 1 contests
Contests visited
1
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
1 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 166.82 · weakest Pork (149.07)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 1 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 1 contests
Backyard average
331.97
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
29
16–13 across every shared overall standing
Purse competed for
$3,450
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
Power rating
1503
peak 1503 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2026
- First tracked contest Foley BBQ & Blues Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score331.9660 Foley BBQ & Blues Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best overall score331.9660 Foley BBQ & Blues Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)166.8228 Foley BBQ & Blues Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY)
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 47% | 92.2% | 92.2% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-13 | Foley BBQ & Blues Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY) Foley, AL | 14 / 30 (331.9660) | 14 (165.1432) | 12 (166.8228) | 27 (149.0744) | — |