Big Ash BBQ
Big Ash BBQ is a competition barbecue team with 2 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2021 and 2025. Their best overall finish is 17th of 40 at the Boss of the Sauce BBQ Festival (2021). They finished #1481 in the 2025 Master Series Team of the Year standings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1490
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 2
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
Apr 9, 2021
latest Mar 21, 2025 · 3.9 years on the trail
Avg finish
top 69%
overall standings
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 162.23 · weakest Brisket (151.99)
Road miles
72
across 2 mapped stops · furthest 72 mi
Purse competed for
$35K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
Master avg
632.95 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
299.84 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 0 GCs
These overall scores sit on different scales (Master out of 720, Backyard out of 360), so they're kept separate — averaging them together would be misleading.
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 ↗ | Master | #1481 (51 pts) | #1515 (51 pts) | #1572 (51 pts) | #1440 (56 pts) | #1487 (51 pts) |
By meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.7884 | 151.3600 | 157.07 | top 67% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.9428 | 148.4800 | 152.21 | top 71% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.2284 | 162.2284 | 162.23 | top 92% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 151.9888 | 151.9888 | 151.99 | top 96% |
“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
Opponents faced
81
finished ahead 29 times, behind 56
Longest layoff
4 yrs
Apr 9, 2021 → Mar 21, 2025
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20253 milestones
- Career-best overall score632.9484 Okefenokee Smoke (formerly Swamptown Showdown)
- Career-best single call (Chicken)162.7884 Okefenokee Smoke (formerly Swamptown Showdown)
- Most recent contest Okefenokee Smoke (formerly Swamptown Showdown)
20211 milestone
- First tracked contest Boss of the Sauce BBQ Festival
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 21, 2025 | Okefenokee Smoke (formerly Swamptown Showdown) 🏅 Waycross, GA | 25 / 26 (632.9484) | 25 (162.7884) | 25 (155.9428) | 24 (162.2284) | 25 (151.9888) |
| Apr 9, 2021 | Boss of the Sauce BBQ Festival 🏅 Jacksonville, FL | 17 / 40 (299.8400) | 15 (151.3600) | 18 (148.4800) | — | — |