Happy hunting ground
Top 16%
average finish here
Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) is their spot: an average finish in the top 16% across 2 visits.
- 2 visits
- best finish 11th
- average top 16%
Phat Jacks
Phat Jacks is a competition barbecue team with 5 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2013 and 2016. Their best overall finish is 5th of 32 at the Septemberfest BBQ & Ribeye Steak Cookoff Challenge (2013).
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1560
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 41 invitational or side-series contest not counted
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
Aug 31, 2013
latest Oct 21, 2016 · 3.1 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
1
2 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
20% of 5 contests
Avg finish
top 18%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
60%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±8.51
spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 172.69 · weakest Chicken (169.35)
Road miles
689
across 5 mapped stops · furthest 524 mi
Schedule strength
72%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1591)
Master avg
682.35 / 720
5 Master contests · 0 GCs
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to Phat Jacks, each with one reason worth a look.
Phat Jacks has 4 rated contests, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 53 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#1,567 of the rated field
- Contests
- 13
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1560
1–0 in 1 shared contest (100% to Phat Jacks)
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Phat Jacks has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head#1,561 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1561
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#1,557 of the rated field
- Contests
- 11
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 45%
- Peak
- 1561
Their rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 11 contests, alongside a 45% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Compare careers#1,559 of the rated field
- Contests
- 11
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 27%
- Peak
- 1561
This is the highest they've ever been rated, 9 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Compare careers#1,560 of the rated field
- Contests
- 9
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 56%
- Peak
- 1561
Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2013.
⚔ Compare careers#1,565 of the rated field
- Contests
- 10
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 30%
- Peak
- 1562
Level with Phat Jacks on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careersFamiliar foes (most-met opponents in overall standings — one meeting per contest)
| Opponent | Meetings | Ahead | Behind | Win rate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SPITFIRE | 5 | 5 | 0 | 100% | ⚔ compare |
By meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 171.9772 | 166.2628 | 169.35 | top 35% |
| Pork Ribs | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 178.2972 | 164.5600 | 170.84 | top 26% |
| Pork | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 175.4400 | 169.7028 | 172.69 | top 14% |
| Brisket | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 178.8572 | 157.7144 | 169.47 | top 34% |
“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.
By field size and state
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 16% |
| Large (40+) | 4 | 0 | top 18% |
Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) | 2 | 11 | 0 | top 16% | Oct 21, 2016 |
More numbers
Busiest season
2013
3 contests
Contests a season
1.7
across 3 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
TN
2 of 5 contests · 3 states in all
Contests visited
4
1 of them more than once
Opponents faced
708
finished ahead 810 times, behind 115
Longest layoff
2.1 yrs
Oct 3, 2013 → Oct 23, 2015
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20162 milestones
- Peak power rating (1560) Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY)
- Most recent contest Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY)
20137 milestones
- First tracked contest Septemberfest BBQ & Ribeye Steak Cookoff Challenge
- First call Septemberfest BBQ & Ribeye Steak Cookoff Challenge
- First category win (Pork Ribs) Septemberfest BBQ & Ribeye Steak Cookoff Challenge
- First overall top-10 Septemberfest BBQ & Ribeye Steak Cookoff Challenge
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score690.7772 Septemberfest BBQ & Ribeye Steak Cookoff Challenge
- Career-best overall score690.7772 Septemberfest BBQ & Ribeye Steak Cookoff Challenge
- Career-best single call (Brisket)178.8572 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +17.1 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) | Oct 23, 2015 |
| +15.5 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open | Oct 3, 2013 |
| +14.5 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) | Oct 21, 2016 |
| +13.3 | Septemberfest BBQ & Ribeye Steak Cookoff Challenge | Aug 31, 2013 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 20% | 95.6% | 95.6% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 12% | 95.2% | 95.2% |
| 2013 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 67% | top 19% | 95.9% | 94.4% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 21, 2016 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) Lynchburg, TN | 19 / 96 (688.5144) | 29 (171.9772) | 55 (168.5256) | 6 (175.4400) | 27 (172.5716) |
| Oct 23, 2015 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) Lynchburg, TN | 11 / 93 (685.1540) | 38 (169.1428) | 15 (173.1428) | 23 (170.8800) | 16 (171.9884) |
| Oct 3, 2013 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 17 / 535 (680.5256) | 125 (167.4056) | 164 (164.5600) | 72 (169.7028) | 3 (178.8572) |
| Oct 3, 2013 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Invitational unrated Kansas City, MO | 68 / 174 (666.8000) | 86 (166.2628) | 42 (169.6800) | 22 (173.1428) | 133 (157.7144) |
| Aug 31, 2013 | Septemberfest BBQ & Ribeye Steak Cookoff Challenge Omaha, NE | 5 / 32 (690.7772) | 10 (171.9772) | 1 (178.2972) | 4 (174.2628) | 16 (166.2400) |
An unrated contest — an invitational, or a Competitor or Kosher Series board — is in the record but doesn’t move the power rating.