The comeback
2.3 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 2.3 years, then back at SMOKE IN SCHLIEREN (2018-10-20).
- last seen 2016-06-17
- back 2018-10-20
A&A BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1472
peak 1472 · rated over 3 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2016-04-30
latest 2018-10-20
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 85%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
604.54
last 3 Master vs avg 604.54 (+0.00)
Walk rate
33%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±23.83
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 160.02 · weakest Brisket (142.45)
Road miles
9,668
mi across 3 mapped stops · furthest 4828 mi
Schedule strength
25%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1534)
Master avg
604.54 / 720
3 Master contests · 0 GCs
Storylines (2 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.
The long haul
9,668
road miles between contests
Contest to contest, they've covered roughly 9,668 miles across 3 mapped stops — the longest single trip being 4,828 miles to Custer County Community Table/Miles City Cowtown Cook-off.
- 3 mapped stops
- furthest 4,828 mi
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&A 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 134 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.
#4502 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1472
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#4525 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1472
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 7 years after A&A BBQ did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-head#4529 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1472
No shared contest yet.
Level with A&A BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#4514 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1472
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#4501 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
They've been 1504 at their best, 32 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-head#4533 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1472
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 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 169.7600 | 150.3084 | 160.02 | top 66% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 164.6400 | 137.1548 | 148.98 | top 74% |
| Pork | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.2628 | 146.2284 | 153.09 | top 82% |
| Brisket | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 147.9656 | 134.2632 | 142.45 | top 87% |
“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
2.5 yrs
2016-04-30 → 2018-10-20
Busiest season
2016
2 contests
Contests a season
1.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
MT
1 of 3 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
3
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
3 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 160.02 · weakest Brisket (142.45)
Walk rate
33%
a top-10 call in 1 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 3 contests
Master average
604.54
out of 720 · 3 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
57
9–54 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
9,668
3 mapped stops · furthest 4,828 mi
Schedule strength
1534
average field rating faced — tougher than 25% of rated contests
Longest layoff
2.3 yrs
2016-06-17 → 2018-10-20
Power rating
1472
peak 1472 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2016
- First tracked contest Smoke By the River
- First call Smoke By the River
- Career-best overall score634.2856 Smoke By the River
- Career-best single call (Chicken)169.7600 Smoke By the River
- Peak power rating (1496) Smoke By the River
- 2018
- Most recent contest SMOKE IN SCHLIEREN
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -12.7 | Custer County Community Table/Miles City Cowtown Cook-off | 2016-06-17 |
| -11.7 | SMOKE IN SCHLIEREN | 2018-10-20 |
| -3.6 | Smoke By the River | 2016-04-30 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 95% | 80% | 80% |
| 2016 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 81% | 88.1% | 85.9% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-10-20 | SMOKE IN SCHLIEREN Goldschlagiplatz, 5735 | 19 / 20 (575.9432) | 20 (150.3084) | 18 (145.1432) | 18 (146.2284) | 18 (134.2632) |
| 2016-06-17 | Custer County Community Table/Miles City Cowtown Cook-off Miles City, MT | 25 / 26 (603.3832) | 19 (160.0000) | 24 (137.1548) | 21 (158.2628) | 24 (147.9656) |
| 2016-04-30 | Smoke By the River Brugg, CH | 13 / 20 (634.2856) | 5 (169.7600) | 8 (164.6400) | 15 (154.7656) | 16 (145.1200) |