High-water mark
674.1140
career-best overall
93.6% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 674.1140 at 5th Annual Hudson's Bay Heritage Days BBQ Cookoff — 93.6% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2022-08-20
Pit 71
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1484
peak 1484 · rated over 4 contests ⓘ
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
2022-08-20
latest 2025-07-19
Best ToY finish
#1067
Master 2023
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
1
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 67%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
657.57
last 4 Master vs avg 657.57 (-0.00)
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±16.83
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 170.40 · weakest Pork (159.52)
Road miles
621
mi across 4 mapped stops · furthest 258 mi
Schedule strength
14%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1520)
Purse competed for
$60K
listed at 4 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 4 state-championship entries
Master avg
657.57 / 720
4 Master contests · 0 GCs
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.
A tough matchup
4–0
behind in the head-to-head
RJs Smokehouse ahead in 100% of their meetings
RJs Smokehouse has come out ahead in 4 of their 4 shared contests.
The comeback
1.9 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 1.9 years, then back at Sutherlin Throwdown (2025-07-19).
- last seen 2023-08-19
- back 2025-07-19
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.
Pit 71 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 143 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.
#3954 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1504
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#3946 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1484
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2022, 3 years before Pit 71's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3935 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1484
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2016, 6 years before Pit 71's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3932 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1509
No shared contest yet.
Level with Pit 71 on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3923 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1485
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2020, 5 years before Pit 71's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3944 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1484
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 6 years before Pit 71'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 | 170.8228 | 157.0628 | 164.52 | top 69% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 178.8572 | 159.9428 | 170.40 | top 50% |
| Pork | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.1200 | 153.6684 | 159.52 | top 83% |
| Brisket | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.2628 | 154.2972 | 163.13 | top 57% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OR | 2 | 0 | top 80% |
| WA | 2 | 0 | top 54% |
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 89% |
| Medium (20–39) | 3 | 0 | top 60% |
The story so far (17 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
2.9 yrs
2022-08-20 → 2025-07-19
Busiest season
2022
2 contests
Contests a season
1.3
across 3 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
OR
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 170.40 · weakest Pork (159.52)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 2 of 4 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 4 contests
Master average
657.57
out of 720 · 4 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
72
39–70 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
621
4 mapped stops · furthest 258 mi
Schedule strength
1520
average field rating faced — tougher than 14% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$60,000
listed at 4 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 4 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
1.9 yrs
2023-08-19 → 2025-07-19
Power rating
1484
peak 1484 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2022
- First tracked contest 5th Annual Hudson's Bay Heritage Days BBQ Cookoff
- First call 5th Annual Hudson's Bay Heritage Days BBQ Cookoff
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score674.1140 5th Annual Hudson's Bay Heritage Days BBQ Cookoff
- Career-best overall score674.1140 5th Annual Hudson's Bay Heritage Days BBQ Cookoff
- Peak power rating (1497) 5th Annual Hudson's Bay Heritage Days BBQ Cookoff
- 2023
- First category win (Pork Ribs) DuPont-Hudson's Bay BBQ Competition
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)178.8572 DuPont-Hudson's Bay BBQ Competition
- 2025
- Most recent contest Sutherlin Throwdown
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +3.3 | DuPont-Hudson's Bay BBQ Competition | 2023-08-19 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -11.5 | Hermiston Fall Fest, BBQ, Brews, & More | 2022-10-07 |
| -4.8 | Sutherlin Throwdown | 2025-07-19 |
| -2.8 | 5th Annual Hudson's Bay Heritage Days BBQ Cookoff | 2022-08-20 |
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)
Team of the Year rank by season
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 71% | 91.4% | 91.4% |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 100% | top 47% | 92.8% | 92.8% |
| 2022 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 76% | 93.6% | 90.6% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-07-19 | Sutherlin Throwdown 🏅 Sutherlin, OR | 25 / 35 (658.1256) | 25 (167.9656) | 29 (165.0972) | 32 (154.8000) | 12 (170.2628) |
| 2023-08-19 | DuPont-Hudson's Bay BBQ Competition 🏅 DuPont, WA | 14 / 30 (667.9088) | 27 (157.0628) | 1 (178.8572) | 17 (169.1200) | 15 (162.8688) |
| 2022-10-07 | Hermiston Fall Fest, BBQ, Brews, & More 🏅 Hermiston, OR | 17 / 19 (630.1368) | 13 (162.2284) | 18 (159.9428) | 17 (153.6684) | 15 (154.2972) |
| 2022-08-20 | 5th Annual Hudson's Bay Heritage Days BBQ Cookoff 🏅 DuPont, WA | 18 / 29 (674.1140) | 13 (170.8228) | 5 (177.7028) | 27 (160.5028) | 19 (165.0856) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 ↗ | Master | #1067 (110 pts) | #1617 (55 pts) | #704 (280 pts) | #1159 (95 pts) | #1128 (105 pts) |
| 2022 ↗ | Master | #1216 (84 pts) | #1178 (104 pts) | #1334 (79 pts) | #1264 (84 pts) | #1202 (94 pts) |