High-water mark
663.2800
career-best overall
92.1% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 663.2800 at American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest — 92.1% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- Nov 5, 2025
Big Salinas Barbecue
Big Salinas Barbecue is a competition barbecue team with 6 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2023 and 2025. Their best overall finish is 280th of 401 at the American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest (2025).
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1484
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 3
Contests
6
in the data
First seen
Sep 27, 2023
latest Nov 5, 2025 · 2.1 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
0% of 6 contests
Avg finish
top 79%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±72.44
spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Brisket
avg 165.32 · weakest Chicken (118.84)
Road miles
10
across 6 mapped stops
Schedule strength
70%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1589)
Purse competed for
$226K
listed at 6 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 3 state-championship entries
Master avg
611.54 / 720
3 Master contests · 0 GCs
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Big Salinas Barbecue has 3 rated contests, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 145 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#3,961 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1504
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- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1484
Their last contest in the data was back in 2022, 3 years before Big Salinas Barbecue's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
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- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1484
They were already cooking in 2016, 7 years before Big Salinas Barbecue's first contest.
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- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1509
Level with Big Salinas Barbecue on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
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- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1484
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 6 years before Big Salinas Barbecue's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
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- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1484
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 6 years before Big Salinas Barbecue's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careersBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.8344 | 20 | 118.84 | top 70% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 173.1428 | 159.3600 | 165.30 | top 62% |
| Pork | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.6800 | 153.6800 | 162.08 | top 72% |
| Brisket | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.2860 | 162.2744 | 165.32 | top 57% |
“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.
Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest | 2 | 280 | 0 | top 69% | Nov 5, 2025 |
More numbers
Contests a season
2
across 3 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
KS
6 of 6 contests
Contests visited
2
1 of them more than once
Opponents faced
723
finished ahead 272 times, behind 1,056
Longest layoff
1.1 yrs
Sep 27, 2023 → Oct 30, 2024
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20252 milestones
- Career-best overall score663.2800 American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest
- Most recent contest American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Sides
20241 milestone
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score662.2516 American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest
20233 milestones
- First tracked contest American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)173.1428 American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest
- Peak power rating (1488) American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -12 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest | Sep 27, 2023 |
| -2.4 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest | Nov 5, 2025 |
| -1.6 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest | Oct 30, 2024 |
Scores over time (% of a perfect score — tap a meat to add it)
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 70% | 92.1% | 92.1% |
| 2024 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 67% | 92% | 92% |
| 2023 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 99% | 70.7% | 70.7% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 5, 2025 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Sides Kansas City, KS | — | — | — | — | — |
| Nov 5, 2025 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 280 / 401 (663.2800) | 184 (170.8344) | 352 (159.3600) | 199 (169.6800) | 284 (163.4056) |
| Oct 30, 2024 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Sides Kansas City, KS | — | — | — | — | — |
| Oct 30, 2024 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 299 / 444 (662.2516) | 294 (165.6800) | 340 (163.3944) | 326 (162.8912) | 142 (170.2860) |
| Sep 27, 2023 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Sides Kansas City, KS | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sep 27, 2023 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 481 / 487 (509.0972) | 483 (20) | 104 (173.1428) | 448 (153.6800) | 333 (162.2744) |