RUNNING STYLE BBQ - GA

RUNNING STYLE BBQ - GA is a competition barbecue team with 27 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2019 and 2026. They have won 3 Grand Championships, most recently at the Atlanta BBQ Store Classic (2023), and finished Reserve Grand Champion 5 times. They are ranked #505 of 6,491 teams in the KCBS power rankings. Also listed in KCBS results as “RUNNING STYLE BBQ” and “RUNNING STYLE-BBQ”.

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At a glance (the record in numbers)

Power ranking

#505

of 6,491 rated · rankings

Rating

1675

peak 1686 · rated over 23 contests

Contests

in the data

First seen

May 31, 2019

latest May 29, 2026 · 7 years on the trail

Best ToY finish

#60

Backyard 2024 · every season

Grand champs

5 reserve · wins it all 11% of the time

Category wins

25 podiums

Overall top-10s

70% of 27 contests

Best top-10 run

straight overall top-10s

Avg finish

top 19%

overall standings

Best overall

681.0284 / 720

Master · Honeybee BBQ Competition

Perfect 180s

2 🔥

Current form

345.23 ▲

last 5 Backyard vs avg 344.41 (+0.81)

Walk rate

81%

contests with a top-10 call

Best single call

180 🔥

Pork Ribs · Sip & Swine BBQ Festival

Consistency

±5.90

spread of their Backyard overall scores (lower = steadier)

Strongest meat

Chicken

avg 174.02 · weakest Brisket (166.80)

Road miles

1,800

across 27 mapped stops · furthest 191 mi

Schedule strength

52%

of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1567)

Purse competed for

$234K

listed at 23 contests — purses, not winnings

State championships

3 🏅

won from 21 state-championship entries

Master avg

679.86 / 720

2 Master contests · 0 GCs

Backyard avg

344.41 / 360

14 Backyard contests · 1 GC

Backyard (3-meat) avg

515.36 / 540

7 Backyard (3-meat) contests · 2 GCs

These overall scores sit on different scales (Master out of 720, Backyard out of 360, Backyard (3-meat) out of 540), so they're kept separate — averaging them together would be misleading.

This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.

Storylines (21 found in their record)

Each card leads with the number behind the story, straight from their results.

The heartbreaker

0.5944 points from the title

Came within 0.5944 points of the Grand Championship at BBQ Boogie & Blues (Apr 28, 2023).

Among the elite

#505 of 6,491 rated teams

In the top 8% of every rated team in the data

A power rating of 1675 puts them #505 of 6,491 rated teams — the top 8% of the field.

rating 1675
peak 1686
23 rated contests

Perfect scores on the board

2 perfect 180s

2 perfect 180s in the data — every judge at the table handing back a nine, across 2 different meats.

Chicken ×1
Pork Ribs ×1

Giant slayer

60 teams beaten in one weekend

Took the Grand Championship over a 60-team field at Atlanta BBQ Store Classic.

Nov 17, 2023

Signature meat

26% chicken entries won

6 wins from 23 entries

When chicken is on the table, watch out — they've won it in 26% of their entries (6 of 23).

best 180.0000
average 174.02
19 calls

Happy hunting ground

2× Grand Championships here

Pigs & Peaches BBQ Festival is their spot: 2 Grand Championships in 4 visits.

4 visits
best finish 1st
average top 10%

Multi-meat days

2 contests with 2+ category wins

They've won two or more meats on the same day 2 times — the best of them 2 category wins at Sip & Swine BBQ Festival (Mar 7, 2025).

Pork Ribs 1st
Pork 1st

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They almost always walk

81% of contests with a top-10 call

A call in 22 of 27 contests

A top-10 category call in 81% of their 27 contests — they get to the stage more often than not.

High-water mark

681.0284 career-best overall

94.6% of a perfect 720

Their best day on record: 681.0284 at Honeybee BBQ Competition — 94.6% of a perfect 720.

Master
May 29, 2026

State champions

3 state championships won

They've taken 3 state championships from 21 entries at contests carrying the title.

21 state-championship entries

The one to beat

2× one call ahead of them

3D BBQ has finished one call ahead of RUNNING STYLE BBQ - GA 2 times — their closest competition in the data.

Their season

2023 2 Grand Championships

2023 was the year it came together: 6 contests, 2 Grand Championships and 3 category wins, at an average finish in the top 17%.

6 contests
5 overall top-10s
3 category wins
average top 17%

A tough matchup

5–1 behind in the head-to-head

Electro-Que-ted ahead in 83% of their meetings

Electro-Que-ted has come out ahead in 5 of their 6 shared contests.

The drought

10 contests since the last title

Their last Grand Championship came at Atlanta BBQ Store Classic on Nov 17, 2023 — 10 contests and 2.9 years ago.

last GC Nov 17, 2023
2.9 years ago

A strong matchup

16–1 ahead in the head-to-head

Ahead in 94% of their meetings

They've finished ahead of Stewbabys BBQ in 16 of their 17 shared contests.

The comeback

1.7 yrs off the trail, then back

Off the trail for 1.7 years, then back at Pigs & Peaches BBQ Festival (Aug 20, 2021).

last seen Nov 22, 2019
back Aug 20, 2021

Always the bridesmaid

5 reserve championships

Runner-up for the whole thing 5 times against 3 Grand Championships — close enough to touch it, over and over.

3 Grand Championships
27 contests

Looking over their shoulder

3× one call behind them

BAD ROOSTER BBQ has landed one call behind them 3 times.

A March team

Top 10% average finish in March

Something about March: average finish in the top 10% across 3 contests, versus top 19% the rest of the year.

3 March contests
top 19% the rest of the year

The metronome

±1.71% swing around their own average

Their overall lands within ±1.71% of a perfect score of their own average — whatever the field, you know roughly what they'll turn in.

averages 95.5% of a perfect score
27 contests

A standing appointment

4 years running at one contest

They've cooked Pigs & Peaches BBQ Festival every year from 2021 to 2024 — the contest they never miss.

4 visits in all
best finish 1st

Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)

Year	Series	Overall	Chicken	Ribs	Pork	Brisket
2026 ↗	Backyard	#132 (351 pts)	#109 (486 pts)	#168 (266 pts)	—	—
2026 ↗	Master	#962 (99 pts)	#1050 (94 pts)	#1077 (109 pts)	#994 (99 pts)	#971 (109 pts)
2025 ↗	Backyard	#118 (468 pts)	#143 (413 pts)	#114 (568 pts)	—	—
2025 ↗	Master	#1001 (101 pts)	#649 (276 pts)	#1181 (96 pts)	#1074 (96 pts)	#1164 (66 pts)
2024 ↗	Backyard	#60 (861 pts)	#73 (791 pts)	#83 (746 pts)	—	—
2023 ↗	Backyard	—	#43 (1,043 pts)	#63 (928 pts)	—	—
2023 ↗	Master	—	—	#1036 (143 pts)	—	—

Overall rank by season

Teams like this (closest power rating)

The teams rated closest to RUNNING STYLE BBQ - GA, each with one reason worth a look.

All Smoked Up BBQ

#507 of the rated field

1675 power rating

Contests: 41
GCs: 3
Top-10s: 51%
Peak: 1675

This is the highest they've ever been rated, 39 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.

rated over 39 contests
last seen Oct 10, 2026
on a 5-contest top-10 run

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ALL FORKED UP FOR Q

#506 of the rated field

1675 power rating

Contests: 163
GCs: 5
Top-10s: 25%
Peak: 1787

163 contests to 27: their number has had years to settle where RUNNING STYLE BBQ - GA's is still finding its level.

rated over 147 contests
last seen Sep 30, 2026

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Sweet Cheeks BBQ

#501 of the rated field

1677 ▲ 1 power rating

Contests: 25
GCs: 7
Top-10s: 80%
Peak: 1677

0–1 in 1 shared contest (0% to RUNNING STYLE BBQ - GA)

One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team RUNNING STYLE BBQ - GA has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.

rated over 24 contests
last seen May 14, 2021

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Shmack Q

#515 of the rated field

1674 ▼ 1 power rating

Contests: 64
GCs: 6
Top-10s: 66%
Peak: 1759

1–0 in 1 shared contest (100% to RUNNING STYLE BBQ - GA)

Their rating is built on 6 Grand Championships in 64 contests, alongside a 66% overall top-10 rate.

rated over 53 contests
last seen Aug 28, 2026

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The Yellow Rose Texas BBQ Company

#502 of the rated field

1676 ▲ 1 power rating

Contests: 100
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 24%
Peak: 1676

2–0 in 2 shared contests (100% to RUNNING STYLE BBQ - GA)

Level with RUNNING STYLE BBQ - GA on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.

rated over 94 contests
last seen Aug 1, 2025

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Big Johns BBQ Company

#508 of the rated field

1675 ▼ 1 power rating

Contests: 26
GCs: 2
Top-10s: 58%
Peak: 1676

This is the highest they've ever been rated, 24 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.

rated over 24 contests
last seen Oct 9, 2026

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Familiar foes (most-met opponents in overall standings — one meeting per contest)

Opponent	Meetings	Ahead	Behind	Win rate
SMOKIN' SWEETMEATS	19	14	4	74%	⚔ compare
Stewbabys BBQ	17	16	1	94%	⚔ compare
COOL HAND QUE	17	14	2	82%	⚔ compare
MAYA JANE BBQ CO.	17	13	3	76%	⚔ compare
Peckerwood Country Club	16	15	1	94%	⚔ compare
Blue Smoke Q	16	13	3	81%	⚔ compare
ZIPS BBQ	16	12	4	75%	⚔ compare
Quenut BBQ	15	14	1	93%	⚔ compare
BAD ROOSTER BBQ	15	8	7	53%	⚔ compare
Wiggle Butts BBQ	14	14	0	100%	⚔ compare
Wine Me, Dine Me and Swine Me	14	14	0	100%	⚔ compare
CHOOCHOO BBQ	14	12	2	86%	⚔ compare
HOLD YOUR HORSES BBQ	14	12	2	86%	⚔ compare
CLAUDE'S Q	12	12	0	100%	⚔ compare
ROLLIN KOLBZ	12	11	1	92%	⚔ compare

By meat

Category	Entries	Calls	Wins	Podiums	Best	Worst	Average	Avg finish
Chicken	23	19	6	12	180 🔥	165.0972	174.02	top 16%
Pork Ribs	24	18	4	8	180 🔥	165.0972	171.29	top 21%
Pork	16	11	1	5	178.8572	158.2400	170.33	top 22%
Brisket	2	0	0	0	170.8112	162.7884	166.80	top 74%

“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 field size and state

By contest size

Field	Contests	GCs	Avg finish
Small (<20 teams)	1	0	top 74%
Medium (20–39)	13	2	top 19%
Large (40+)	9	1	top 13%

By state / province (where the contests were held)

Where	Contests	GCs	Avg finish
GA	19	3	top 16%
AL	4	0	top 32%

Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)

Contest	Visits	Best	GCs	Avg finish	Last visit
Pigs & Peaches BBQ Festival	4	1	2	top 10%	Aug 16, 2024
Atlanta BBQ Store Classic	4	1	1	top 11%	Nov 14, 2025
Sip & Swine BBQ Festival	3	4	0	top 10%	Mar 6, 2026
Honeybee BBQ Competition	2	14	0	top 66%	May 29, 2026
BBQ, Boogie & Blues	2	2	0	top 6%	Apr 26, 2024

More numbers

Busiest season 2023 6 contests · 2 GCs

Contests a season 3 across 9 seasons in the data

Most contests held in GA 23 of 27 contests · 2 states in all

Contests visited 13 5 of them more than once

Most-entered meat Pork Ribs 24 entries · 4 wins · 18 calls

First title Aug 20, 2021 Pigs & Peaches BBQ Festival

Opponents faced 543 finished ahead 1,146 times, behind 223

Longest layoff 1.7 yrs Nov 22, 2019 → Aug 20, 2021

Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)

20263 milestones

Mar 6 Peak power rating (1686) Sip & Swine BBQ Festival
May 29 Career-best overall score681.0284 Honeybee BBQ Competition
May 29 Most recent contest Honeybee BBQ Competition

20252 milestones

Mar 7 10th category win Sip & Swine BBQ Festival
Nov 14 25th tracked contest Atlanta BBQ Store Classic

20232 milestones

Aug 18 First perfect 180 (Chicken) Pigs & Peaches BBQ Festival
Nov 17 Biggest field won (60 teams) Atlanta BBQ Store Classic

20221 milestone

Nov 17 10th tracked contest Atlanta BBQ Store Classic (One Meat Ribs)

20213 milestones

Aug 20 First Grand Championship Pigs & Peaches BBQ Festival
Aug 20 First state championship Pigs & Peaches BBQ Festival
Aug 20 First multi-meat day Pigs & Peaches BBQ Festival

20196 milestones

May 31 First call Smokin' Bike Fest
May 31 First category win (Chicken) Smokin' Bike Fest
May 31 First overall top-10 Smokin' Bike Fest
May 31 First overall podium Smokin' Bike Fest
May 31 First Reserve Championship Smokin' Bike Fest
May 31 First overall past 90% of a perfect score353.1200 Smokin' Bike Fest

20161 milestone

Aug 26 First tracked contest Pigs and Peaches BBQ Festival (GBC Qualifier)

Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)

📈 Biggest rating jumps

Swing	Contest	Date
+15.4	Pigs & Peaches BBQ Festival	Aug 20, 2021
+15.1	Smokin' Bike Fest	May 31, 2019
+14.3	Atlanta BBQ Store Classic	Nov 17, 2023
+13.5	Hawgin On Lanier	Aug 2, 2019
+13.3	Atlanta BBQ Store Classic	Nov 18, 2022

📉 Toughest weekends

Swing	Contest	Date
-10.8	Honeybee BBQ Competition	May 29, 2026
-10.2	Honeybee BBQ Competition	May 30, 2025

Scores over time (% of a perfect score, averaged over 5 contests — tap a meat to add it)

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	2	0	1	0	50%	top 44%	97%	95.8%
2025	4	0	3	3	100%	top 24%	98.1%	95.9%
2024	4	0	3	0	100%	top 18%	95.4%	94.4%
2023	6	2	5	3	83%	top 17%	98.3%	96.3%
2022	3	0	2	1	100%	top 5%	95.3%	95%
2021	2	1	2	2	100%	top 7%	97.7%	95.5%
2019	3	0	3	2	100%	top 18%	98.1%	95%
2017	1	0	0	0	0%	—	—	—
2016	2	0	0	0	0%	—	—	—

Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)

Date	Event	Overall	Chicken	Ribs	Pork	Brisket
May 29, 2026	Honeybee BBQ Competition 🏅 Lafayette, GA	14 / 19 (681.0284)	15 (168.5140)	12 (169.7260)	14 (171.9772)	12 (170.8112)
Mar 6, 2026	Sip & Swine BBQ Festival 🏅 Lawrenceville, GA	6 / 44 (349.1432)	2 (176.5716)	9 (172.5716)	—	—
Nov 14, 2025	Atlanta BBQ Store Classic 🏅 Cumming, GA	5 / 56 (349.6916)	3 (177.7144)	11 (171.9772)	—	—
Aug 15, 2025	Pigs & Peaches 🏅 Kennesaw, GA	5 / 27 (338.2400)	4 (170.2628)	6 (167.9772)	4 (170.2856)	—
May 30, 2025	Honeybee BBQ Competition 🏅 Lafayette, GA	15 / 26 (678.6968)	1 (178.8572)	16 (168.5256)	16 (168.5256)	22 (162.7884)
Mar 7, 2025	Sip & Swine BBQ Festival 🏅 Lawrenceville, GA	4 / 45 (353.1200)	7 (173.1200)	1 (180)	1 (178.8572)	—
Nov 15, 2024	Atlanta BBQ Store Classic 🏅 Cuming, GA	17 / 58 (335.9316)	24 (165.0972)	10 (170.8344)	7 (174.2744)	—
Aug 16, 2024	Pigs & Peaches BBQ Festival 🏅 Kennesaw, GA	7 / 26 (339.3828)	9 (168.5484)	6 (170.8344)	2 (174.2744)	—
Apr 26, 2024	BBQ, Boogie & Blues 🏅 Calhoun, GA	2 / 34 (341.1084)	4 (169.6912)	3 (171.4172)	2 (169.6684)	—
Mar 1, 2024	Sip & Swine BBQ Festival 🏅 Lawrenceville, GA	5 / 59 (343.3828)	2 (176.5600)	15 (166.8228)	15 (167.3828)	—
Nov 17, 2023	Atlanta BBQ Store Classic 🏅 Cumming, GA	1 / 60 (353.7028)	4 (177.1428)	2 (176.5600)	4 (175.4056)	—
Oct 5, 2023	Poosa Q 🏅 Montgomery, AL	23 / 73 (338.8000)	24 (170.2628)	28 (168.5372)	—	—
Aug 18, 2023	Pigs & Peaches BBQ Festival 🏅 Kennesaw, GA	1 / 27 (526.2516)	1 (180)	5 (173.1316)	2 (173.1200)	—
Jun 9, 2023	Reelin N Smokin Backyard BBQ Competition (BACKYARD ONLY) Huntsville, AL	9 / 26 (342.7884)	14 (167.3828)	1 (175.4056)	—	—
Apr 28, 2023	BBQ Boogie & Blues 🏅 Calhoun, GA	2 / 32 (525.0972)	2 (178.8572)	1 (176.5600)	6 (169.6800)	—
Apr 7, 2023	Smoke on the Falls 🏅 Gadsden, AL	10 / 39 (342.8116)	5 (175.4172)	21 (167.3944)	—	—
Nov 18, 2022	Atlanta BBQ Store Classic 🏅 Cumming, GA	2 / 57 (514.8000)	2 (178.8800)	8 (166.2400)	8 (169.6800)	—
Nov 17, 2022	Atlanta BBQ Store Classic (One Meat Ribs) Cumming, GA	—	—	9 (173.1200)	—	—
Aug 19, 2022	Pigs & Peaches BBQ Festival 🏅 Kennesaw, GA	2 / 30 (510.7772)	1 (175.4056)	2 (166.8344)	4 (168.5372)	—
Nov 19, 2021	GBC Throwdown 🏅 Cumming, GA	3 / 28 (504.4800)	2 (170.8344)	4 (170.2744)	12 (163.3712)	—
Aug 20, 2021	Pigs & Peaches BBQ Festival 🏅 Kennesaw, GA	1 / 26 (527.3944)	1 (178.8572)	1 (176.5600)	3 (171.9772)	—
Nov 22, 2019	Mission Q (Backyard Only) Tuscumbia, AL	7 / 20 (340.5256)	5 (171.4056)	6 (169.1200)	—	—
Aug 2, 2019	Hawgin On Lanier 🏅 Gainesville, GA	5 / 45 (498.7544)	1 (175.4172)	4 (165.0972)	17 (158.2400)	—
May 31, 2019	Smokin' Bike Fest 🏅 Peachtree City, GA	2 / 31 (353.1200)	1 (177.7144)	2 (175.4056)	—	—
Nov 17, 2017	Que'n In Cumming (DAY 1) Cumming, GA	—	—	—	—	—
Nov 18, 2016	Que'n in Cumming (Day 1) Cumming, GA	—	—	—	—	—
Aug 26, 2016	Pigs and Peaches BBQ Festival (GBC Qualifier) Kennesaw, GA	—	—	—	—	—

RUNNING STYLE BBQ - GA

At a glance (the record in numbers)

Power ranking

Rating

Contests

First seen

Best ToY finish

Grand champs

Category wins

Overall top-10s

Best top-10 run

Avg finish

Best overall

Perfect 180s

Current form

Walk rate

Best single call

Consistency

Strongest meat

Road miles

Schedule strength

Purse competed for

State championships

Master avg

Backyard avg

Backyard (3-meat) avg

Storylines (21 found in their record)

The heartbreaker

Among the elite

Perfect scores on the board

Giant slayer

Signature meat

Happy hunting ground

Multi-meat days

They almost always walk

High-water mark

State champions

The one to beat

Their season

A tough matchup

The drought

A strong matchup

The comeback

Always the bridesmaid

Looking over their shoulder

A March team

The metronome

A standing appointment

Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)

Overall rank by season

Teams like this (closest power rating)

Familiar foes (most-met opponents in overall standings — one meeting per contest)

By meat

By field size and state

By contest size

By state / province (where the contests were held)

Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)

More numbers

Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)

Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)

📈 Biggest rating jumps

📉 Toughest weekends

Scores over time (% of a perfect score, averaged over 5 contests — tap a meat to add it)

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

Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)

Career map (orange GC · green top-10 · grey the rest — tap a pin)