The one to beat
2×
one call ahead of them
SOUTHSIDE BBQ has finished one call ahead of Q Time BBQ 2 times — their closest competition in the data.
Q Time BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1488
peak 1488 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2017-07-28
latest 2018-07-27
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 89%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 169.68 · weakest Brisket (150.77)
Road miles
0
mi across 2 mapped stops
Master avg
639.77 / 720
2 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.
Looking over their shoulder
2×
one call behind them
Deep South East has landed one call behind them 2 times.
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.
Q Time BBQ has 2 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 139 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.
#3758 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1488
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3748 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 80%
- Peak
- 1488
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 8 years after Q Time BBQ did, first appearing in 2025.
⚔ Head-to-head#3776 of the rated field
- Contests
- 9
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1509
No shared contest yet.
Level with Q Time BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3740 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3764 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1503
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3772 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1501
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.6800 | 169.6800 | 169.68 | top 48% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.5028 | 160.5028 | 160.50 | top 96% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.8228 | 158.8228 | 158.82 | top 78% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 150.7656 | 150.7656 | 150.77 | top 96% |
“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.
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| *Cotton Pickin BBQ Cook-off | 2 | 24 | 0 | top 89% | 2018-07-27 |
The story so far (13 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1 yrs
2017-07-28 → 2018-07-27
Busiest season
2018
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
AL
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
1
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 169.68 · weakest Brisket (150.77)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 2 contests
Master average
639.77
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
26
6–46 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
0
2 mapped stops
Power rating
1488
peak 1488 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2017
- First tracked contest *Cotton Pickin BBQ Cook-off
- 2018
- Career-best overall score639.7712 *Cotton Pickin BBQ Cook-off
- Career-best single call (Chicken)169.6800 *Cotton Pickin BBQ Cook-off
- Most recent contest *Cotton Pickin BBQ Cook-off
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 89% | 88.9% | 88.9% |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 89% | 88.9% | 88.9% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-07-27 | *Cotton Pickin BBQ Cook-off Hartselle, AL | 24 / 27 (639.7712) | 13 (169.6800) | 26 (160.5028) | 21 (158.8228) | 26 (150.7656) |
| 2017-07-28 | *Cotton Pickin BBQ Cook-off Hartselle, AL | 24 / 27 (639.7712) | 13 (169.6800) | 26 (160.5028) | 21 (158.8228) | 26 (150.7656) |