High-water mark
678.2060
career-best overall
94.2% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 678.2060 at Jimbo's Annual BBQ Competition — 94.2% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2023-04-07
Neat BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1487
peak 1487 · rated over 4 contests ⓘ
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
2022-04-08
latest 2025-03-28
Best ToY finish
#848
Master 2023
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 62%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
658.30
last 4 Master vs avg 658.30 (+0.00)
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±13.77
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 169.12 · weakest Pork (161.98)
Road miles
3,515
mi across 4 mapped stops · furthest 1172 mi
Schedule strength
40%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1553)
Purse competed for
$35K
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 4 state-championship entries
Master avg
658.30 / 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.
The comeback
2 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 2 years, then back at Cedar Fest BBQ Cookoff (2025-03-28).
- last seen 2023-04-07
- back 2025-03-28
The long haul
3,515
road miles between contests
Contest to contest, they've covered roughly 3,515 miles across 4 mapped stops — the longest single trip being 1,172 miles to Cedar Fest BBQ Cookoff.
- 4 mapped stops
- furthest 1,172 mi
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.
Neat BBQ 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 146 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.
#3821 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1486
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#3806 of the rated field
- Contests
- 9
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1487
No shared contest yet.
Their rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 9 contests, alongside a 33% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-head#3809 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1487
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2020, 5 years before Neat BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3820 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1486
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2013, 9 years before Neat BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3828 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1486
No shared contest yet.
Level with Neat BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3817 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 7 years before Neat 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 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.3944 | 158.2516 | 164.26 | top 61% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 177.1772 | 165.0856 | 169.12 | top 48% |
| Pork | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 174.2972 | 154.8000 | 161.98 | top 66% |
| Brisket | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.5372 | 157.6340 | 162.95 | top 56% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TX | 2 | 0 | top 58% |
| NC | 2 | 0 | top 66% |
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 2 | 0 | top 66% |
| Large (40+) | 2 | 0 | top 58% |
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cedar Fest BBQ Cookoff | 2 | 27 | 0 | top 58% | 2025-03-28 |
| Jimbo's Annual BBQ Competition | 2 | 17 | 0 | top 66% | 2023-04-07 |
The story so far (17 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
3 yrs
2022-04-08 → 2025-03-28
Busiest season
2023
2 contests
Contests a season
1.3
across 3 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
TX
2 of 4 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
2
2 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
4 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 169.12 · weakest Pork (161.98)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 2 of 4 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 4 contests
Master average
658.30
out of 720 · 4 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
163
66–138 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
3,515
4 mapped stops · furthest 1,172 mi
Schedule strength
1553
average field rating faced — tougher than 40% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$34,500
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 4 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
2 yrs
2023-04-07 → 2025-03-28
Power rating
1487
peak 1487 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2022
- First tracked contest Jimbo's Annual BBQ Competition
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score658.1140 Jimbo's Annual BBQ Competition
- 2023
- First call Cedar Fest BBQ Cookoff
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)177.1772 Cedar Fest BBQ Cookoff
- Peak power rating (1495) Cedar Fest BBQ Cookoff
- Career-best overall score678.2060 Jimbo's Annual BBQ Competition
- 2025
- Most recent contest Cedar Fest BBQ Cookoff
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +2.9 | Cedar Fest BBQ Cookoff | 2023-03-31 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -8.3 | Jimbo's Annual BBQ Competition | 2022-04-08 |
| -4.4 | Jimbo's Annual BBQ Competition | 2023-04-07 |
| -3.7 | Cedar Fest BBQ Cookoff | 2025-03-28 |
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 69% | 88.8% | 88.8% |
| 2023 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 54% | 94.2% | 92.8% |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 72% | 91.4% | 91.4% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-03-28 | Cedar Fest BBQ Cookoff 🏅 Cedar Park, TX | 33 / 48 (639.2796) | 33 (158.2516) | 23 (166.2284) | 37 (157.1656) | 30 (157.6340) |
| 2023-04-07 | Jimbo's Annual BBQ Competition 🏅 Stem, NC | 17 / 28 (678.2060) | 19 (167.3944) | 19 (167.9772) | 7 (174.2972) | 17 (168.5372) |
| 2023-03-31 | Cedar Fest BBQ Cookoff 🏅 Cedar Park, TX | 27 / 57 (657.6112) | 30 (165.6684) | 5 (177.1772) | 47 (154.8000) | 33 (159.9656) |
| 2022-04-08 | Jimbo's Annual BBQ Competition 🏅 Stem, NC | 26 / 36 (658.1140) | 20 (165.7144) | 24 (165.0856) | 29 (161.6456) | 16 (165.6684) |
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 | #848 (153 pts) | #951 (143 pts) | #733 (268 pts) | #726 (218 pts) | #907 (153 pts) |
| 2022 ↗ | Master | #1309 (60 pts) | #1246 (85 pts) | #1387 (65 pts) | #1348 (60 pts) | #1164 (105 pts) |