The heartbreaker
2.2856
points from the title
Came within 2.2856 points of the Grand Championship at Rockin' BBQ Warsaw, Indiana (2026-05-15).
Silver Creek Barbecue
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1533
peak 1533 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
6
in the data
First seen
2023-07-15
latest 2026-05-15
Best ToY finish
#161
Backyard 2026
Grand champs
1
1 reserve
Category wins
2
4 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
of 6 contests
Avg finish
top 6%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
67%
contests with a top-10 call
Top-10 streak
2
and counting
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 174.68 · weakest Pork Ribs (168.56)
Road miles
107
mi across 6 mapped stops · furthest 54 mi
Purse competed for
$9K
listed at 5 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
347.44 / 360
2 Backyard contests · 1 GC
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Storylines (5 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.
A multi-meat day
1
contests with 2+ category wins
They've won two or more meats on the same day 1 time — the best of them 2 category wins at Dowagiac BBQ Competition and Summer Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) (2023-07-15).
- Chicken 1st
- Pork Ribs 1st
High-water mark
350.9032
career-best overall
97.5% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 350.9032 at Dowagiac BBQ Competition and Summer Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) — 97.5% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2023-07-15
The weak link
−6.1
points behind their best meat
Pork Ribs is where the weekend gets away from them — it averages 6.12 points below their chicken, and turns into a call 60% of the time against 100%.
- Pork Ribs avg 168.56
- Chicken avg 174.68
- 3 calls in 5 entries
The comeback
2 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 2 years, then back at Rockin' BBQ Warsaw, Indiana (ONE MEAT RIBS) (2026-05-15).
- last seen 2024-05-17
- back 2026-05-15
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.
Silver Creek Barbecue has 2 rated contests — 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 80 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.
#2124 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 50%
- Peak
- 1533
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 6 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#2108 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1533
No shared contest yet.
Their rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 5 contests, alongside a 60% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-head#2116 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1533
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2015, 11 years before Silver Creek Barbecue's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2103 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 67%
- Peak
- 1534
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2018, 5 years before Silver Creek Barbecue's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#2133 of the rated field
- Contests
- 8
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 13%
- Peak
- 1533
No shared contest yet.
Level with Silver Creek Barbecue on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2135 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 67%
- Peak
- 1533
No shared contest yet.
3 straight overall top-10s says this rating is a moving target.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 177.7372 | 171.4056 | 174.68 | top 10% |
| Pork Ribs | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 176.0116 | 155.9656 | 168.56 | top 41% |
| Pork | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
| Brisket | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
“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 state / province
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| IN | 1 | 0 | top 6% |
| MI | 1 | 1 | top 6% |
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 1 | top 6% |
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 6% |
The story so far (19 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
2.8 yrs
2023-07-15 → 2026-05-15
Busiest season
2026
3 contests
Contests a season
2
across 3 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
IN
5 of 6 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
5 entries · 1 win · 3 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 174.68 · weakest Pork Ribs (168.56)
Walk rate
67%
a top-10 call in 4 of 6 contests
Overall top-10 rate
33%
2 of 6 contests
Wins it all
17%
1 Grand Championship · 1 reserve
First title
2023-07-15
Dowagiac BBQ Competition and Summer Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
Best top-10 run
2
straight contests — and still running
Backyard average
347.44
out of 360 · 2 contests · 1 GC
Opponents faced
58
57–2 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
107
6 mapped stops · furthest 54 mi
Purse competed for
$8,625
listed at 5 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
2 yrs
2024-05-17 → 2026-05-15
Power rating
1533
peak 1533 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2023
- First tracked contest Rocking BBQ Warsaw (ONE MEAT RIBS)
- First call Dowagiac BBQ Competition and Summer Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First category win (Chicken) Dowagiac BBQ Competition and Summer Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall top-10 Dowagiac BBQ Competition and Summer Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall podium Dowagiac BBQ Competition and Summer Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First Grand Championship Dowagiac BBQ Competition and Summer Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First multi-meat day Dowagiac BBQ Competition and Summer Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score350.9032 Dowagiac BBQ Competition and Summer Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best overall score350.9032 Dowagiac BBQ Competition and Summer Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- 2026
- First Reserve Championship Rockin' BBQ Warsaw, Indiana
- Career-best single call (Chicken)177.7372 Rockin' BBQ Warsaw, Indiana (ONE MEAT CHICKEN)
- Most recent contest Rockin' BBQ Warsaw, Indiana (ONE MEAT CHICKEN)
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 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 6% | 95.5% | 95.5% |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2023 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 50% | top 6% | 97.5% | 97.5% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-15 | Rockin' BBQ Warsaw, Indiana (ONE MEAT CHICKEN) Warsaw, IN | — | 2 (177.7372) | — | — | — |
| 2026-05-15 | Rockin' BBQ Warsaw, Indiana 🏅 Warsaw, IN | 2 / 35 (343.9772) | 5 (171.4056) | 3 (172.5716) | — | — |
| 2026-05-15 | Rockin' BBQ Warsaw, Indiana (ONE MEAT RIBS) Warsaw, IN | — | — | 5 (174.8688) | — | — |
| 2024-05-17 | Rockin' BBQ Warsaw (ONE MEAT RIBS) 🏅 Warsaw, IN | — | — | 28 (163.3828) | — | — |
| 2023-07-15 | Dowagiac BBQ Competition and Summer Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Dowagiac, MI | 1 / 16 (350.9032) | 1 (174.8916) | 1 (176.0116) | — | — |
| 2023-05-19 | Rocking BBQ Warsaw (ONE MEAT RIBS) Warsaw, IN | — | — | 26 (155.9656) | — | — |
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 ↗ | Backyard | #161 (236 pts) | #113 (411 pts) | #183 (211 pts) | — | — |
| 2026 ↗ | Master | — | #592 (250 pts) | #731 (184 pts) | — | — |
| 2024 ↗ | Backyard | — | — | #423 (57 pts) | — | — |
| 2024 ↗ | Master | — | — | #1583 (57 pts) | — | — |
| 2023 ↗ | Backyard | — | #177 (266 pts) | #176 (266 pts) | — | — |
| 2023 ↗ | Master | — | — | #1721 (54 pts) | — | — |