#3573 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1491
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headThomas Family BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1491
peak 1491 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2025-06-21
latest 2025-06-21
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 92%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 161.71 · weakest Pork Ribs (144.54)
Road miles
0
mi across 2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$23K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Master avg
609.60 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
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.
Thomas Family BBQ has 1 rated contest — 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 142 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.
#3556 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1512
No shared contest yet.
Level with Thomas Family BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3574 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 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3559 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 4 years before Thomas Family BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3590 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1491
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2015, 10 years before Thomas Family BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3561 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1492
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 8 years before Thomas Family 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.7144 | 161.7144 | 161.71 | top 92% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 149.7144 | 139.3716 | 144.54 | top 94% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 147.4172 | 147.4172 | 147.42 | top 96% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.0972 | 161.0972 | 161.10 | top 77% |
“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
0 yrs
2025-06-21 → 2025-06-21
Busiest season
2025
2 contests
Cooks most in
DC
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
1
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
2 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 161.71 · weakest Pork Ribs (144.54)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 2 contests
Master average
609.60
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
25
2–23 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
0
2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$22,750
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Power rating
1491
peak 1491 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2025
- First tracked contest Giant National Capital Barbecue Battle (ONE MEAT RIBS)
- Career-best overall score609.6004 Giant National Capital Barbecue Battle
- Career-best single call (Chicken)161.7144 Giant National Capital Barbecue Battle
- Most recent contest Giant National Capital Barbecue Battle
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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 92% | 84.7% | 84.7% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-06-21 | Giant National Capital Barbecue Battle 🏅 Washington, DC | 24 / 26 (609.6004) | 24 (161.7144) | 25 (139.3716) | 25 (147.4172) | 20 (161.0972) |
| 2025-06-21 | Giant National Capital Barbecue Battle (ONE MEAT RIBS) Washington, DC | — | — | 22 (149.7144) | — | — |