The comeback
10.8 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 10.8 years, then back at Jiggy With The Piggy - Day 1 (2024-05-03).
- last seen 2013-07-05
- back 2024-05-03
Big Ox BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1482
peak 1482 · rated over 4 contests ⓘ
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
2013-05-24
latest 2025-10-24
Best ToY finish
#1637
Master 2013
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 71%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
604.10
last 3 Master vs avg 604.10 (+0.00)
Walk rate
25%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±19.27
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 160.28 · weakest Brisket (143.04)
Road miles
787
mi across 4 mapped stops · furthest 690 mi
Schedule strength
46%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1560)
Purse competed for
$39K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
604.10 / 720
3 Master contests · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
328.53 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 0 GCs
Master and Backyard overall scores sit on different scales (Master is out of 720, Backyard out of 360), so they're kept separate — averaging them together would be misleading.
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Storylines (1 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.
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.
Big Ox BBQ has 4 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 116 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.
#4015 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1482
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 6 contests to 4.
⚔ Head-to-head#4029 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1482
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 10 years after Big Ox BBQ did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-head#4010 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1483
No shared contest yet.
Level with Big Ox BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#4019 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1482
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#4040 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1482
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2022, 3 years before Big Ox BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#4025 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1482
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 4 years before Big Ox BBQ'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 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.8344 | 125.4972 | 152.51 | top 63% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 169.1430 | 151.4172 | 160.28 | top 48% |
| Pork | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.4172 | 137.1424 | 153.52 | top 81% |
| Brisket | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 148.5714 | 138.2516 | 143.04 | top 85% |
“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 state / province
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| NC | 2 | 0 | top 62% |
| IL | 2 | 0 | top 79% |
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 82% |
| Large (40+) | 3 | 0 | top 67% |
The story so far (18 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
12.4 yrs
2013-05-24 → 2025-10-24
Busiest season
2013
2 contests
Contests a season
1.3
across 3 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
NC
2 of 4 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
4
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
4 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 160.28 · weakest Brisket (143.04)
Walk rate
25%
a top-10 call in 1 of 4 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 4 contests
Master average
604.10
out of 720 · 3 contests · 0 GCs
Backyard average
328.53
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
184
67–146 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
787
4 mapped stops · furthest 690 mi
Schedule strength
1560
average field rating faced — tougher than 46% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$39,100
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
10.8 yrs
2013-07-05 → 2024-05-03
Power rating
1482
peak 1482 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2013
- First tracked contest Westmont Red, White & BBQ
- First call Westmont Red, White & BBQ
- Career-best overall score625.1430 Westmont Red, White & BBQ
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)169.1430 Westmont Red, White & BBQ
- Peak power rating (1492) Westmont Red, White & BBQ
- 2024
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score328.5260 Jiggy With The Piggy - Day 1
- 2025
- Most recent contest Eastern Carolina BBQ Throwdown
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +8.4 | Jiggy With The Piggy - Day 1 | 2024-05-03 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -9.2 | Firin' Up the Fox BBQ Contest | 2013-07-05 |
| -9.2 | Eastern Carolina BBQ Throwdown | 2025-10-24 |
| -7.7 | Westmont Red, White & BBQ | 2013-05-24 |
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% | top 93% | 80.4% | 80.4% |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 31% | 91.3% | 91.3% |
| 2013 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 79% | 86.8% | 85.7% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-24 | Eastern Carolina BBQ Throwdown 🏅 Rocky Mount, NC | 42 / 45 (578.5832) | 45 (125.4972) | 40 (151.4172) | 36 (163.4172) | 44 (138.2516) |
| 2024-05-03 | Jiggy With The Piggy - Day 1 🏅 Kannapolis, NC | 14 / 45 (328.5260) | 14 (166.8344) | 16 (161.6916) | — | — |
| 2013-07-05 | Firin' Up the Fox BBQ Contest St. Charles, IL | 28 / 34 (608.5708) | 12 (163.9998) | 18 (158.8572) | 34 (137.1424) | 22 (148.5714) |
| 2013-05-24 | Westmont Red, White & BBQ Westmont, IL | 53 / 70 (625.1430) | 59 (153.7144) | 10 (169.1430) | 44 (159.9998) | 64 (142.2858) |
Career map (orange GC · green top-10 · grey the rest — tap a pin)
Team of the Year standings (rank per category by season — year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 ↗ | Master | #1637 (134 pts) | #1349 (199 pts) | #1210 (244 pts) | #1743 (134 pts) | #1559 (149 pts) |