The heartbreaker
0.6172
points from the title
Came within 0.6172 points of the Grand Championship at Smoke in the Spring (2021-04-09).
Jackson Davis
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1519
peak 1519 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2021-04-09
latest 2021-04-09
Grand champs
0
1 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 2%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Road miles
74
mi across 3 mapped stops · furthest 46 mi
Purse competed for
$1K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Storylines (3 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 comeback
2.5 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 2.5 years, then back at American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Kids Que (2023-09-27).
- last seen 2021-04-09
- back 2023-09-27
Announced themselves early
2nd
at their very first contest
Finished 2 of 105 at their very first tracked contest, Smoke in the Spring (2021-04-09).
- 2021-04-09
- 105-team field
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.
Jackson Davis 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 84 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.
#2518 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1519
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#2523 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1526
No shared contest yet.
Level with Jackson Davis on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2514 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1519
No shared contest yet.
Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2021.
⚔ Head-to-head#2524 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1519
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#2526 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1519
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 3 years before Jackson Davis's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2529 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1532
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 3 years before Jackson Davis'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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
| Pork Ribs | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
| Pork | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
| 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 (13 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0 yrs
2021-04-09 → 2021-04-09
Busiest season
2025
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 3 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
KS
3 of 3 contests
Contests visited
1
0 of them cooked more than once
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
33%
1 of 3 contests
Opponents faced
130
127–2 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
74
3 mapped stops · furthest 46 mi
Purse competed for
$1,180
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
2.5 yrs
2021-04-09 → 2023-09-27
Power rating
1519
peak 1519 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2021
- First tracked contest Smoke in the Spring
- First overall top-10 Smoke in the Spring
- First overall podium Smoke in the Spring
- First Reserve Championship Smoke in the Spring
- Career-best overall score177.1428 Smoke in the Spring
- 2025
- Most recent contest American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Kids Que
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0% | top 2% | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-05 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Kids Que Kansas City, KS | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2023-09-27 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Kids Que Kansas City, KS | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2021-04-09 | Smoke in the Spring 🏅 Osage City, KS | 2 / 105 (177.1428) | — | — | — | — |