High-water mark
678.2172
career-best overall
94.2% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 678.2172 at The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ — 94.2% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2015-05-01
BAMA BIG GUNS BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1515
peak 1515 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2013-05-03
latest 2015-05-01
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 30%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
67%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 171.81 · weakest Brisket (161.99)
Road miles
18
mi across 3 mapped stops
Master avg
672.82 / 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.
The comeback
2 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 2 years, then back at The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ (2015-05-01).
- last seen 2013-05-03
- back 2015-05-01
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.
BAMA BIG GUNS 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 95 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.
#2648 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1515
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#2653 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1519
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 10 years after BAMA BIG GUNS BBQ did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-head#2658 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1514
No shared contest yet.
Level with BAMA BIG GUNS BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2666 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#2646 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1518
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#2665 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1521
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 173.1428 | 163.9428 | 167.78 | top 53% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 176.0116 | 166.8572 | 171.81 | top 29% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 172.5712 | 169.1428 | 170.86 | top 30% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.1200 | 154.8570 | 161.99 | top 52% |
“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 (14 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
2 yrs
2013-05-03 → 2015-05-01
Busiest season
2015
2 contests
Contests a season
1.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
AL
3 of 3 contests
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
3 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 171.81 · weakest Brisket (161.99)
Walk rate
67%
a top-10 call in 2 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 3 contests
Master average
672.82
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
94
87–36 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
18
3 mapped stops
Longest layoff
2 yrs
2013-05-03 → 2015-05-01
Power rating
1515
peak 1515 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2013
- First tracked contest The Whistle Stop Festival & Rocket City BBQ
- First call The Whistle Stop Festival & Rocket City BBQ
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score667.4282 The Whistle Stop Festival & Rocket City BBQ
- 2015
- Career-best overall score678.2172 The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)176.0116 The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ
- Most recent contest I Grill Because I CARE (Competitor's Series)
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 27% | 94.2% | 94.2% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 34% | 92.7% | 92.7% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-07-31 | I Grill Because I CARE (Competitor's Series) New Hope, AL | — | 24 (166.2400) | 15 (172.5484) | — | — |
| 2015-05-01 | The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ Huntsville, AL | 17 / 63 (678.2172) | 42 (163.9428) | 3 (176.0116) | 28 (169.1428) | 19 (169.1200) |
| 2013-05-03 | The Whistle Stop Festival & Rocket City BBQ Huntsville, AL | 21 / 62 (667.4282) | 10 (173.1428) | 22 (166.8572) | 10 (172.5712) | 46 (154.8570) |