The comeback
8.2 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 8.2 years, then back at Speed & Feed BBQ Festival at Darlington Raceway (2026-05-15).
- last seen 2018-03-23
- back 2026-05-15
Pit Commanders
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1492
peak 1492 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
7
in the data
First seen
2026-05-15
latest 2026-05-15
Best ToY finish
#925
Master 2026
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 7 contests
Avg finish
top 88%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 164.03 · weakest Chicken (158.25)
Road miles
829
mi across 7 mapped stops · furthest 671 mi
Purse competed for
$10K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Master avg
644.55 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Still inside their first twelve months: see what a first season usually looks like.
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.
Pit Commanders 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 129 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.
#3538 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1492
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 7, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#3551 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2020, 6 years before Pit Commanders's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3522 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2014, 12 years before Pit Commanders's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3537 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
Level with Pit Commanders on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3527 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1492
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 9 years before Pit Commanders's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3542 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1510
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 9 years before Pit Commanders'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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.2512 | 158.2512 | 158.25 | top 96% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164.0344 | 164.0344 | 164.03 | top 85% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.2628 | 162.2628 | 162.26 | top 81% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.0000 | 160.0000 | 160.00 | top 88% |
“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 (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0 yrs
2026-05-15 → 2026-05-15
Busiest season
2017
2 contests
Contests a season
1.2
across 6 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
LA
5 of 7 contests · 3 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
1
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
1 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 164.03 · weakest Chicken (158.25)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 7 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 7 contests
Master average
644.55
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
25
3–22 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
829
7 mapped stops · furthest 671 mi
Purse competed for
$10,000
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
8.2 yrs
2018-03-23 → 2026-05-15
Power rating
1492
peak 1492 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2014
- First tracked contest Hammond BBQ
- 2026
- Career-best overall score644.5484 Speed & Feed BBQ Festival at Darlington Raceway
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)164.0344 Speed & Feed BBQ Festival at Darlington Raceway
- Most recent contest Speed & Feed BBQ Festival at Darlington Raceway
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 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 88% | 89.5% | 89.5% |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2017 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-15 | Speed & Feed BBQ Festival at Darlington Raceway 🏅 Darlington, SC | 23 / 26 (644.5484) | 25 (158.2512) | 22 (164.0344) | 21 (162.2628) | 23 (160.0000) |
| 2018-03-23 | Hammond BBQ Hammond, LA | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2017-04-28 | Hog Wild BBQ Cookoff and Family Festival Brookhaven, MS | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2017-03-24 | Hammond BBQ Hammond, LA | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2016-03-25 | Hamond BBQ Hammond, LA | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2015-03-27 | Smokin Blues & BBQ Hammond, LA | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2014-03-21 | Hammond BBQ Hammond, LA | — | — | — | — | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 ↗ | Master | #925 (61 pts) | #1248 (51 pts) | #1032 (66 pts) | #937 (71 pts) | #947 (61 pts) |