The comeback
2 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 2 years, then back at Smoke on the Plains BBQ & Music Fest (Jun 7, 2024).
- last seen Jun 25, 2022
- back Jun 7, 2024
Jackson
Jackson is a competition barbecue team with 5 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2021 and 2025.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
Sep 17, 2021
latest May 31, 2025 · 3.7 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
0% of 5 contests
Avg finish
—
overall standings
Best overall
—
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Road miles
6,059
across 5 mapped stops · furthest 1,508 mi
Purse competed for
$41K
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 3 state-championship entries
By meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|
“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.
More numbers
Busiest season
2022
2 contests
Contests a season
1.3
across 4 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
KS
2 of 5 contests · 4 states and provinces in all
Longest layoff
2 yrs
Jun 25, 2022 → Jun 7, 2024
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20251 milestone
- Most recent contest Small Town Smoke Down
20211 milestone
- First tracked contest Rhythm & Ribs - One Meat Chicken Contest
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% | — | — | — |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2022 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 2025 | Small Town Smoke Down Bassano, AB | — | — | — | — | — |
| Jun 7, 2024 | Smoke on the Plains BBQ & Music Fest 🏅 Derby, KS | — | — | — | — | — |
| Jun 25, 2022 | Second Annual Central Maine BBQ Cookoff 🏅 Skowhegan, ME | — | — | — | — | — |
| Jan 14, 2022 | Slab-O-Rama Barbeque Challenge 🏅 Bullhead City, AZ | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sep 17, 2021 | Rhythm & Ribs - One Meat Chicken Contest Wichita, KS | — | — | — | — | — |