Barbeque on the Bow Festival
The health card: 4 editions on record from 2023 to 2026, in Calgary, AB. The public page for this contest →
Latest field
Field trend
Teams who come back
Not been back
Teams who started here
Field, edition by edition
| Year | Date | Teams | Winner | Purse |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Sep 4, 2026 | 33 | Prairie Smoke & Spice BBQ | — |
| 2025 | Aug 30, 2025 | 38 | SmellaQue | — |
| 2024 | Aug 31, 2024 | 35 | Colorado Bulldawg BBQ | — |
| 2023 | Sep 2, 2023 | 40 | Meat Sweats BBQ | — |
Who came back
Of the teams at one edition, how many were on the board at the next — and how many were brand new to your contest.
| Edition | Returned | Of | Return rate | New faces |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 23 | 43 | 53% | 10 |
| 2025 | 23 | 35 | 66% | 20 |
| 2024 | 23 | 54 | 43% | 12 |
The teams who stopped coming
Teams who have cooked this contest before, were not at the most recent edition, and have competed somewhere in the last eighteen months — so they are still active, they just are not here. Sorted by how many times they used to come, which is the order worth working down.
| Team | Times cooked here | Last time here | Last contest anywhere |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOME COOKIN' BBQ | 3 | 2025-08-30 | 2026-05-30 |
| Homestead Smoke Shack | 3 | 2025-08-30 | 2026-06-19 |
| Mark's Meats and Treats | 3 | 2025-08-30 | 2026-05-30 |
| Murfy's BBQ Co. | 3 | 2025-08-30 | 2026-05-23 |
| SMELLAQUE | 3 | 2025-08-30 | 2026-10-09 |
| Just Katie | 3 | 2025-08-30 | 2025-08-30 |
| MEAT SWEATS BBQ AB | 3 | 2025-08-30 | 2025-08-30 |
| Just Smoke It! BBQ | 3 | 2025-08-30 | 2025-08-30 |
| Rack Addicts BBQ Team | 2 | 2025-08-30 | 2026-05-30 |
| YOU NEED A BBQ | 2 | 2025-08-30 | 2026-09-11 |
| Northern Lights Barbecue Company | 2 | 2025-08-30 | 2025-08-30 |
| TiMMins Smoke Show BBQ Team | 2 | 2025-08-30 | 2025-08-30 |
| Notorious P.I.G. | 2 | 2024-08-31 | 2026-05-29 |
| Rollin Smoke BBQ | 2 | 2024-08-31 | 2026-10-16 |
| Brisket Butts | 2 | 2024-08-31 | 2026-09-11 |
| Hawt Hawgs BBQ | 1 | 2025-08-30 | 2025-09-27 |
| Phantom Smoke & BBQ | 1 | 2025-08-30 | 2026-09-30 |
| Fergolicious BBQ | 1 | 2025-08-30 | 2026-10-15 |
| Hunny & Hooch BBQ | 1 | 2025-08-30 | 2026-07-25 |
| 10 or Bust | 1 | 2025-08-30 | 2025-08-30 |
| 4KFarms-Greengate | 1 | 2025-08-30 | 2025-08-30 |
| Chop it like its hot | 1 | 2025-08-30 | 2025-08-30 |
| The Little LebowsQ | 1 | 2025-08-30 | 2025-08-30 |
| ARROWHEAD NORTH BBQ | 1 | 2024-08-31 | 2025-07-26 |
| Ribs For Her Pleasure | 1 | 2023-09-02 | 2026-09-25 |
Check your date
Team home regions are inferred from team names and where they cook, and a team is “still active” if it has appeared on any results board in the last eighteen months. Everything here comes from the public listings and results at kcbs.us; contests that never published results are invisible to it, so read low numbers as “not on file” before reading them as “did not happen”.