The heartbreaker
2.2856
points from the title
Came within 2.2856 points of the Grand Championship at Rockin' BBQ Warsaw, Indiana (May 15, 2026).
Silver Creek Barbecue
Silver Creek Barbecue is a competition barbecue team with 6 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2023 and 2026. They have won 1 Grand Championship, at the Dowagiac BBQ Competition and Summer Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) (2023), and finished Reserve Grand Champion once. They finished #174 in the 2026 Backyard Series Team of the Year standings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1533
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 2
Contests
6
in the data
First seen
Jul 15, 2023
latest May 15, 2026 · 2.8 years on the trail
Grand champs
1
1 reserve · wins it all 17% of the time
Category wins
2
4 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
33% of 6 contests
Best top-10 run
2
straight overall top-10s, still running
Avg finish
top 6%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
67%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 174.68 · weakest Pork Ribs (168.56)
Road miles
107
across 6 mapped stops · furthest 54 mi
Purse competed for
$8,625
listed at 5 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 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.
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 | #174 (236 pts) | #122 (411 pts) | #197 (211 pts) | — | — |
| 2026 ↗ | Master | — | #652 (250 pts) | #816 (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) | — | — |
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to Silver Creek Barbecue, each with one reason worth a look.
Silver Creek Barbecue has 2 rated contests, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 83 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#2,145 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 50%
- Peak
- 1533
Careers of much the same size, 6 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#2,135 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 67%
- Peak
- 1533
They were already cooking in 2018, 5 years before Silver Creek Barbecue's first contest.
⚔ Compare careers#2,155 of the rated field
- Contests
- 8
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 13%
- Peak
- 1533
Level with Silver Creek Barbecue on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#2,156 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 67%
- Peak
- 1533
Their last contest in the data was back in 2023, 3 years before Silver Creek Barbecue's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#2,134 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1537
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 5 years before Silver Creek Barbecue's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#2,153 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1533
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.
⚔ Compare careersBy 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% |
“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 | 1 | top 6% |
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 6% |
More numbers
Busiest season
2026
3 contests
Contests a season
2
across 3 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
IN
5 of 6 contests · 2 states in all
Contests visited
2
a different one every time
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
5 entries · 1 win · 3 calls
First title
Jul 15, 2023
Dowagiac BBQ Competition and Summer Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
Opponents faced
58
finished ahead 57 times, behind 2
Longest layoff
2 yrs
May 17, 2024 → May 15, 2026
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20263 milestones
- 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
20239 milestones
- 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)
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 2026 | Rockin' BBQ Warsaw, Indiana 🏅 Warsaw, IN | 2 / 35 (343.9772) | 5 (171.4056) | 3 (172.5716) | — | — |
| May 15, 2026 | Rockin' BBQ Warsaw, Indiana (ONE MEAT CHICKEN) Warsaw, IN | — | 2 (177.7372) | — | — | — |
| May 15, 2026 | Rockin' BBQ Warsaw, Indiana (ONE MEAT RIBS) Warsaw, IN | — | — | 5 (174.8688) | — | — |
| May 17, 2024 | Rockin' BBQ Warsaw (ONE MEAT RIBS) 🏅 Warsaw, IN | — | — | 28 (163.3828) | — | — |
| Jul 15, 2023 | Dowagiac BBQ Competition and Summer Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Dowagiac, MI | 1 / 16 (350.9032) | 1 (174.8916) | 1 (176.0116) | — | — |
| May 19, 2023 | Rocking BBQ Warsaw (ONE MEAT RIBS) Warsaw, IN | — | — | 26 (155.9656) | — | — |