Announced themselves early
5th
at their very first contest
Finished 5 of 23 at their very first tracked contest, Big Knob BBQ & Brew Fest (2024-05-24).
- 2024-05-24
- 23-team field
J & T BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1514
peak 1514 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2024-05-24
latest 2026-05-22
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
1
2 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 25%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Top-10 streak
2
and counting
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 170.57 · weakest Pork Ribs (150.86)
Road miles
0
mi across 2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$7K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
321.43 / 360
2 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Storylines (1 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.
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.
J & T BBQ has 2 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 107 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.
#2688 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1513
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2681 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1514
No shared contest yet.
Level with J & T BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2692 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 14%
- Peak
- 1513
No shared contest yet.
Their rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 7 contests, alongside a 14% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-head#2666 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2023, 3 years before J & T BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2672 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1514
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2018, 6 years before J & T BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#2698 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1513
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 7 years before J & T 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 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 175.4400 | 165.7028 | 170.57 | top 10% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 154.2744 | 147.4516 | 150.86 | top 41% |
| Pork | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
| Brisket | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
“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 contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 29% |
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 22% |
The story so far (17 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
2 yrs
2024-05-24 → 2026-05-22
Busiest season
2026
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
PA
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 1 win · 2 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 170.57 · weakest Pork Ribs (150.86)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 2 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
100%
2 of 2 contests
Best top-10 run
2
straight contests — and still running
Backyard average
321.43
out of 360 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
46
34–14 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
0
2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$7,200
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
2 yrs
2024-05-24 → 2026-05-22
Power rating
1514
peak 1514 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2024
- First tracked contest Big Knob BBQ & Brew Fest
- First call Big Knob BBQ & Brew Fest
- First overall top-10 Big Knob BBQ & Brew Fest
- 2026
- First category win (Chicken) Big Knob BBQ & Cash Fest
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score329.7144 Big Knob BBQ & Cash Fest
- Career-best overall score329.7144 Big Knob BBQ & Cash Fest
- Career-best single call (Chicken)175.4400 Big Knob BBQ & Cash Fest
- Most recent contest Big Knob BBQ & Cash Fest
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 100% | top 29% | 91.6% | 91.6% |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 22% | 87% | 87% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-22 | Big Knob BBQ & Cash Fest 🏅 Rochester, PA | 4 / 14 (329.7144) | 1 (175.4400) | 6 (154.2744) | — | — |
| 2024-05-24 | Big Knob BBQ & Brew Fest 🏅 Rochester, PA | 5 / 23 (313.1544) | 3 (165.7028) | 9 (147.4516) | — | — |