Riding a hot streak
5
straight overall top-10s
Currently on a 5-contest overall top-10 run.
- career best 5
Sibo Smokers
Sibo Smokers is a competition barbecue team with 7 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2025 and 2026. Their best overall finish is 3rd of 16 at the Camino del Fuego 2026 (2026). They are ranked #3152 of 6,491 teams in the KCBS power rankings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1502
peak 1502 · rated over 6 contests
Contests
7
in the data
First seen
Jun 27, 2025
latest Sep 18, 2026 · 1.2 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
2
4 podiums
Overall top-10s
5
71% of 7 contests
Best top-10 run
5
straight overall top-10s, still running
Avg finish
top 56%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
1 🔥
Walk rate
71%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±27.27
spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 168.17 · weakest Brisket (160.43)
Road miles
425
across 7 mapped stops · furthest 117 mi
Schedule strength
12%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1517)
Master avg
668.61 / 720
5 Master contests · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
319.34 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 0 GCs
These overall scores sit on different scales (Master out of 720, Backyard out of 360), 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.
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 ↗ | Master | #317 (633 pts) | #344 (642 pts) | #336 (708 pts) | #278 (768 pts) | #436 (458 pts) |
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to Sibo Smokers, each with one reason worth a look.
118 rated teams sit within a point of this rating, so a place on this list means the numbers match — no more than that.
#3,166 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1508
2–1 in 3 shared contests (67% to Sibo Smokers)
These two have cooked 3 of the same contests — Sibo Smokers ahead 2–1 — so there's a record behind this pairing and not just a matching number.
⚔ Head-to-head#3,150 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 67%
- Peak
- 1502
Careers of much the same size, 6 contests to 7, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#3,170 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 8 years before Sibo Smokers's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#3,164 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
They were already cooking in 2013, 12 years before Sibo Smokers's first contest.
⚔ Compare careers#3,154 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1506
Level with Sibo Smokers on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#3,158 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1518
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 7, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careersFamiliar foes (most-met opponents in overall standings — one meeting per contest)
| Opponent | Meetings | Ahead | Behind | Win rate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 88 BBQ | 6 | 2 | 4 | 33% | ⚔ compare |
| Fire Family BBQ PTY | 5 | 2 | 3 | 40% | ⚔ compare |
| HUMO Parrillada | 5 | 2 | 3 | 40% | ⚔ compare |
| Justice BBQ | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
By meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 7 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 180 🔥 | 157.6572 | 166.91 | top 60% |
| Pork Ribs | 6 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 176.5600 | 150.8000 | 166.94 | top 54% |
| Pork | 6 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 178.8572 | 155.3828 | 168.17 | top 51% |
| Brisket | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 168.5256 | 147.9656 | 160.43 | top 65% |
“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) | 5 | 0 | top 62% |
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 29% |
By state / province (where the contests were held)
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| SJ | 2 | 0 | top 68% |
| CR | 1 | 0 | top 19% |
Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2026 | 2 | 7 | 0 | top 68% | Jun 26, 2026 |
More numbers
Busiest season
2026
5 contests
Contests a season
3.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
CR
2 of 7 contests · 2 states in all
Contests visited
5
1 of them more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
7 entries · 0 wins · 2 calls
Opponents faced
53
finished ahead 55 times, behind 46
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20267 milestones
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score650.7776 Chiriqui Grill Fest Internacional
- First category win (Pork) Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2026
- First overall podium Camino del Fuego 2026
- First perfect 180 (Chicken) Camino del Fuego 2026
- Career-best overall score703.3944 Camino del Fuego 2026
- Peak power rating (1502) Camino del Fuego 2026
- Most recent contest Camino del Fuego 2026
20253 milestones
- First tracked contest Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2025
- First call BBQ Fest Palmares (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall top-10 BBQ Fest Palmares (BACKYARD ONLY)
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +13.8 | Camino del Fuego 2026 | Sep 18, 2026 |
| +9.8 | Chiriqui Grill Fest Internacional | Jan 24, 2026 |
| +7.2 | Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2026 | Jun 26, 2026 |
| +1.7 | ECP BBQ Challenge | Jul 24, 2026 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -15.5 | Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2025 | Jun 27, 2025 |
| -15.2 | BBQ Fest Palmares (BACKYARD ONLY) | Nov 15, 2025 |
Scores over time (% of a perfect score — 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 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 80% | top 34% | 97.7% | 94.4% |
| 2025 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 50% | top 100% | 88.7% | 87.8% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 2026 | Camino del Fuego 2026 San Rafael, Alajuela, Costa Rica | 3 / 16 (703.3944) | 2 (180) | 6 (176.0116) | 1 (178.8572) | 10 (168.5256) |
| Sep 18, 2026 | Camino del Fuego 2026 (ONE MEAT CHICKEN) San Rafael, Alajuela, Costa Rica | — | 12 (163.4056) | — | — | — |
| Jul 24, 2026 | ECP BBQ Challenge San Jose | 9 / 17 (682.1712) | 15 (166.8228) | 4 (176.5600) | 11 (170.8228) | 9 (167.9656) |
| Jun 26, 2026 | Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2026 Perez Zeldon, SJ | 7 / 19 (681.0972) | 11 (168.5372) | 13 (169.1200) | 1 (176.5600) | 8 (166.8800) |
| Jan 24, 2026 | Chiriqui Grill Fest Internacional Chiriqui | 9 / 31 (650.7776) | 18 (157.6572) | 2 (174.8688) | 12 (167.4172) | 21 (150.8344) |
| Nov 15, 2025 | BBQ Fest Palmares (BACKYARD ONLY) Palmares | 8 / 8 (319.3372) | 4 (168.5372) | 8 (150.8000) | 8 (155.3828) | — |
| Jun 27, 2025 | Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2025 Perez Zeldon, SJ | 16 / 16 (625.6000) | 11 (163.4172) | 14 (154.2516) | 15 (159.9656) | 16 (147.9656) |