State champions
1
state championship won
They've taken 1 state championship from 3 entries at contests carrying the title.
- 3 state-championship entries
Big Betty BBQ
Big Betty BBQ is a competition barbecue team with 4 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2019 and 2025. They have won 1 Grand Championship, at the Hartford Rib Off (2019). They finished #1804 in the 2019 Master Series Team of the Year standings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1497
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 3
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
Jun 14, 2019
latest Jul 12, 2025 · 6.1 years on the trail
Grand champs
1
0 reserve · wins it all 25% of the time
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
25% of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 57%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
25%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±16.57
spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 162.08 · weakest Brisket (151.97)
Road miles
16
across 4 mapped stops
Schedule strength
24%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1533)
Purse competed for
$19K
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
1 🏅
won from 3 state-championship entries
Master avg
628.46 / 720
3 Master contests · 0 GCs
Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 ↗ | Master | #1804 (82 pts) | #1913 (82 pts) | #1988 (67 pts) | #1541 (127 pts) | #2494 (57 pts) |
By meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.5600 | 153.7028 | 161.27 | top 73% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.6800 | 141.6572 | 153.09 | top 72% |
| Pork | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 163.4172 | 161.1200 | 162.08 | top 67% |
| Brisket | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.1660 | 145.6684 | 151.97 | top 86% |
“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.
Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Connecticut Barbecue Challenge | 2 | 22 | 0 | top 83% | Jul 12, 2025 |
More numbers
Busiest season
2024
2 contests
Contests a season
1.3
across 3 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
CT
4 of 4 contests
Contests visited
2
1 of them more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
4 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
First title
Jun 14, 2019
Hartford Rib Off
Opponents faced
63
finished ahead 35 times, behind 48
Longest layoff
5.1 yrs
Jun 14, 2019 → Jul 12, 2024
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20251 milestone
- Most recent contest Connecticut Barbecue Challenge
20242 milestones
- Career-best overall score649.0060 Connecticut Barbecue Challenge
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)169.6800 Connecticut Barbecue Challenge
20198 milestones
- First tracked contest Hartford Rib Off
- First call Hartford Rib Off
- First overall top-10 Hartford Rib Off
- First overall podium Hartford Rib Off
- First Grand Championship Hartford Rib Off
- First state championship Hartford Rib Off
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score331.4172 Hartford Rib Off
- Peak power rating (1516) Hartford Rib Off
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +15.9 | Hartford Rib Off | Jun 14, 2019 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -13.1 | Connecticut Barbecue Challenge | Jul 12, 2025 |
| -6.2 | Connecticut Barbecue Challenge | Jul 12, 2024 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 93% | 87.2% | 87.2% |
| 2024 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 73% | 90.1% | 90.1% |
| 2019 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 4% | 92.1% | 92.1% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 12, 2025 | Connecticut Barbecue Challenge 🏅 Somers, CT | 28 / 30 (627.9320) | 25 (161.6916) | 28 (141.6572) | 24 (163.4172) | 23 (161.1660) |
| Jul 12, 2024 | Connecticut Barbecue Challenge 🏅 Somers, CT | 22 / 30 (649.0060) | 18 (168.5600) | 12 (169.6800) | 25 (161.6916) | 28 (149.0744) |
| Jul 12, 2024 | Connecticut Barbecue Challenge (ONE MEAT CHICKEN) Somers, CT | — | 15 (161.1316) | — | — | — |
| Jun 14, 2019 | Hartford Rib Off 🏅 Hartford, CT | 1 / 27 (331.4172) | 19 (153.7028) | 22 (147.9428) | 10 (161.1200) | 24 (145.6684) |