#3666 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1504
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-headYou Ain't Kidding BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1490
peak 1490 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
2023-09-15
latest 2023-09-16
Best ToY finish
#1177
Master 2023
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 91%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
25%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 165.95 · weakest Pork (159.98)
Road miles
0
mi across 4 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$7K
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Master avg
641.03 / 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.
You Ain't Kidding 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 163 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.
#3651 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2017, 6 years before You Ain't Kidding BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3654 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1503
No shared contest yet.
Level with You Ain't Kidding BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3661 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 4 years before You Ain't Kidding BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3641 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1490
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 4 years before You Ain't Kidding BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3639 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1490
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 5 years before You Ain't Kidding 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2284 | 165.6800 | 165.95 | top 83% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 167.9772 | 156.5832 | 163.55 | top 76% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164.0000 | 155.9544 | 159.98 | top 91% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.8116 | 162.8116 | 162.81 | top 72% |
“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 (15 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0 yrs
2023-09-15 → 2023-09-16
Busiest season
2023
3 contests
Contests a season
2
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
IL
4 of 4 contests
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
4 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 165.95 · weakest Pork (159.98)
Walk rate
25%
a top-10 call in 1 of 4 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 4 contests
Master average
641.03
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
27
3–30 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
0
4 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$6,500
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Power rating
1490
peak 1490 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2022
- First tracked contest Saluting with Smoke Single Meat Rib Burn (ONE MEAT RIBS)
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)167.9772 Saluting with Smoke Single Meat Rib Burn (ONE MEAT RIBS)
- 2023
- First call Saluting with Smoke (COMPETITOR'S SERIES)
- Career-best overall score664.4568 Saluting with Smoke (COMPETITOR'S SERIES)
- Most recent contest Saluting with Smoke - Honor Q Reboot
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33% | top 91% | 89% | 89% |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-09-16 | Saluting with Smoke - Honor Q Reboot 🏅 Yorkville, IL | 18 / 18 (641.0292) | 17 (165.6800) | 17 (156.5832) | 18 (155.9544) | 13 (162.8116) |
| 2023-09-15 | Saluting with Smoke (COMPETITOR'S SERIES) unrated Yorkville, IL | 14 / 17 (664.4568) | 12 (166.2284) | 10 (165.6800) | 14 (164.0000) | — |
| 2023-09-15 | Saluting with Smoke Single Meat - Rib Burn (ONE MEAT RIBS) Yorkville, IL | — | — | 19 (163.9428) | — | — |
| 2022-11-04 | Saluting with Smoke Single Meat Rib Burn (ONE MEAT RIBS) Yorkville, IL | — | — | 16 (167.9772) | — | — |
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 | #1177 (78 pts) | #1228 (83 pts) | #759 (254 pts) | #1222 (78 pts) | #1137 (103 pts) |