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BBQ Fest Palmares (BACKYARD ONLY)

2025-11-15 – 2025-11-16 · Palmares, 20701 · COSTA RICA · 📍 Redondel de Palmares

Reps: ERNESTO URIBE, NATASHA LOEW

Grand Champion: 88 BBQ Team (350.3316) · 8 teams

Reserve Champion: 🥈 Los Pinos

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350.3316 · Backyard Series — Overall
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343.9884 · Backyard Series — Overall
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339.4060 · Backyard Series — Overall

The contest at a glance (read off the scored boards)

How the field scored

Overall totals, every team on the board — tall stacks are where the pack sat.

How the meats cooked

Every board on one scale — the bar runs last score to first, the dot is the median.

  • Backyard Series — Chicken 178.86
  • Backyard Series — Pork Ribs 175.46
  • Ancillary — Pork 174.86
150.80 178.86

Entries

8
3 judged meats

Top score

350.3316

Winning margin

6.3432
GC over RC

Field average

335.12
319.34350.33
median 337.99 · last place to winner

Perfect 180s

0

Tightest race

Pork
3.9772 pts across the top 5

Field spread

30.9944
winner to last place

Most consistent

avg finish 2.00 across 3 meats

Double threats

5
teams with 2+ top-5 calls

Widest winning margin

Chicken
won by 3.9772 pts — DrumQ BBQ C.R.

How hot was the win?

Top 50%
beats 50% of 713 Backyard Series wins in the data

Form held

Strong
ρ = -0.83 between pre-contest rating and finish

Field strength

1500
avg power rating going in

Top-rated in the field

rated 1520 pre-contest

Storylines (2 found in this contest's numbers)

Everything below is read straight out of the results — the number on each card is the one that made it a story.

Photo finishes

Tie closest of 5 calls decided inside half a point

Ancillary — Pork places 1–2: Los Pinos and 88 BBQ tied on 174.8572 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Ancillary — Pork places 6–7: DrumQ BBQ C.R. and Smoke & Bark BBQ Team tied on 168.0000 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Backyard Series — Pork Ribs places 1–2: Los Pinos edged 88 BBQ by 0.0112.

  • Ancillary — Pork 1–2 · tie
  • Ancillary — Pork 6–7 · tie
  • Backyard Series — Pork Ribs 1–2 · 0.0112
  • Backyard Series — Chicken 4–5 · 0.0116

A double category winner

2 category wins in a day

Los Pinos won Pork Ribs, Pork — a double.

  • Pork Ribs 1st
  • Pork 1st

Score curves (score by finishing position — steep cliffs mean a spread field, flat lines a knife fight)

Category showdown (top / average / median score per meat)

Biggest rating movers (power-rating points won and lost at this contest)

Did form hold? (pre-contest rating vs overall finish — ratings called it if the dots climb to the right)

What a call cost (the score it took to finish 1st, 5th and 10th)

Category1st5th10th
Backyard Series — Chicken178.8572168.5256
Backyard Series — Pork Ribs175.4628165.1200
Ancillary — Pork174.8572170.8800

Official results on kcbs.us ↗

Backyard Series

Overall

8 entries · top 350.3316 · median 337.9886

#TeamScore
1 88 BBQ 350.3316
2 Los Pinos 343.9884
3 DrumQ BBQ C.R. 339.4060
4 HUMO Parrillada 338.8000
5 Mustang Smoked BBQ 337.1772
6 Smoke & Bark BBQ Team 329.1428
7 Los Maes BBQ Team 322.8000
8 Sibo Smokers 319.3372

Chicken

8 entries · top 178.8572 · median 168.5314

#TeamScore
1 DrumQ BBQ C.R. 178.8572
2 88 BBQ 174.8800
3 Mustang Smoked BBQ 168.5828
4 Sibo Smokers 168.5372
5 Los Pinos 168.5256
6 HUMO Parrillada 167.9772
7 Smoke & Bark BBQ Team 165.7028
8 Los Maes BBQ Team 157.6800

Pork Ribs

8 entries · top 175.4628 · median 166.8572

#TeamScore
1 Los Pinos 175.4628
2 88 BBQ 175.4516
3 HUMO Parrillada 170.8228
4 Mustang Smoked BBQ 168.5944
5 Los Maes BBQ Team 165.1200
6 Smoke & Bark BBQ Team 163.4400
7 DrumQ BBQ C.R. 160.5488
8 Sibo Smokers 150.8000

Ancillary

Pork

8 entries · top 174.8572 · median 171.4400

#TeamScore
1 Los Pinos 174.8572
2 88 BBQ 174.8572
3 Mustang Smoked BBQ 174.2628
4 Los Maes BBQ Team 172.0000
5 HUMO Parrillada 170.8800
6 DrumQ BBQ C.R. 168.0000
7 Smoke & Bark BBQ Team 168.0000
8 Sibo Smokers 155.3828

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