The comeback
3 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 3 years, then back at Pigmaster's BBQ Challenge (2025-09-19).
- last seen 2022-09-09
- back 2025-09-19
B&L BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1481
peak 1481 · rated over 3 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2022-06-16
latest 2025-09-19
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 81%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
643.10
last 3 Master vs avg 643.10 (+0.00)
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±8.31
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 167.60 · weakest Brisket (154.62)
Road miles
1,604
mi across 3 mapped stops · furthest 1365 mi
Schedule strength
69%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1587)
Purse competed for
$28K
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 3 state-championship entries
Master avg
643.10 / 720
3 Master contests · 0 GCs
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.
B&L BBQ has 3 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 125 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.
#4072 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1503
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#4067 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1501
No shared contest yet.
Level with B&L BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#4077 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1481
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2013, 9 years before B&L BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#4061 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1481
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#4065 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#4058 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1501
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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.9428 | 156.5828 | 161.12 | top 85% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.9428 | 154.2400 | 159.77 | top 78% |
| Pork | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171.9656 | 159.4056 | 167.60 | top 49% |
| Brisket | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 156.0112 | 153.6228 | 154.62 | top 83% |
“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 (17 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
3.3 yrs
2022-06-16 → 2025-09-19
Busiest season
2022
2 contests
Contests a season
1.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
NC
1 of 3 contests · 3 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
3
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
3 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 167.60 · weakest Brisket (154.62)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 3 contests
Master average
643.10
out of 720 · 3 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
108
21–87 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
1,604
3 mapped stops · furthest 1,365 mi
Schedule strength
1587
average field rating faced — tougher than 69% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$28,380
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 3 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
3 yrs
2022-09-09 → 2025-09-19
Power rating
1481
peak 1481 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2022
- First tracked contest Frisco BBQ Challenge
- Peak power rating (1496) Frisco BBQ Challenge
- 2025
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score653.4740 Pigmaster's BBQ Challenge
- Career-best overall score653.4740 Pigmaster's BBQ Challenge
- Career-best single call (Pork)171.9656 Pigmaster's BBQ Challenge
- Most recent contest Pigmaster's BBQ Challenge
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -8.6 | Pigmaster's BBQ Challenge | 2025-09-19 |
| -6.5 | Puckaway Pigfest | 2022-09-09 |
| -3.7 | Frisco BBQ Challenge | 2022-06-16 |
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 92% | 90.8% | 90.8% |
| 2022 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 76% | 89.3% | 88.6% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-19 | Pigmaster's BBQ Challenge 🏅 Rutherford College, NC | 33 / 36 (653.4740) | 33 (163.9428) | 27 (163.9428) | 16 (171.9656) | 34 (153.6228) |
| 2022-09-09 | Puckaway Pigfest 🏅 Montello, WI | 31 / 38 (642.7088) | 27 (162.8344) | 35 (154.2400) | 12 (171.4172) | 34 (154.2172) |
| 2022-06-16 | Frisco BBQ Challenge 🏅 Frisco, CO | 26 / 37 (633.1312) | 34 (156.5828) | 25 (161.1316) | 26 (159.4056) | 24 (156.0112) |