High-water mark
349.7144
career-best overall
97.1% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 349.7144 at Smoke on the Plains BBQ & Music Fest — 97.1% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- Jun 12, 2026
TEXOMA Q
TEXOMA Q is a competition barbecue team with 5 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2025 and 2026. Their best overall finish is 7th of 36 at the Smoke on the Plains BBQ & Music Fest (2026). They finished #230 in the 2026 Backyard Series Team of the Year standings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1522
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 2
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
Jun 13, 2025
latest Jun 12, 2026 · 1 year on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
40% of 5 contests
Best top-10 run
2
straight overall top-10s, still running
Avg finish
top 21%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
80%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 171.26 · weakest Chicken (169.70)
Road miles
177
across 5 mapped stops · furthest 59 mi
Purse competed for
$45K
listed at 5 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 3 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
343.11 / 360
2 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
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)
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to TEXOMA Q, each with one reason worth a look.
TEXOMA Q 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 94 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#2,448 of the rated field
- Contests
- 11
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 36%
- Peak
- 1526
1–0 in 1 shared contest (100% to TEXOMA Q)
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team TEXOMA Q has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head#2,453 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 80%
- Peak
- 1522
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#2,457 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 50%
- Peak
- 1522
Their last contest in the data was back in 2022, 4 years before TEXOMA Q's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#2,460 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1522
They were already cooking in 2017, 8 years before TEXOMA Q's first contest.
⚔ Compare careers#2,440 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1522
Level with TEXOMA Q on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#2,458 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1522
Their last contest in the data was back in 2014, 12 years before TEXOMA Q'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 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 174.8572 | 164.5372 | 169.70 | top 29% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 174.8572 | 168.5372 | 171.26 | top 42% |
“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.
More numbers
Busiest season
2026
3 contests
Contests a season
2.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
OK
3 of 5 contests · 2 states in all
Contests visited
2
a different one every time
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
4 entries · 0 wins · 4 calls
Opponents faced
82
finished ahead 84 times, behind 26
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20263 milestones
- Career-best overall score349.7144 Smoke on the Plains BBQ & Music Fest
- Career-best single call (Chicken)174.8572 Smoke on the Plains BBQ & Music Fest
- Most recent contest Cherokee Strip BBQ & Chili Cookoff
20254 milestones
- First tracked contest Smoke on the Plains BBQ & Music Fest
- First call Smoke on the Plains BBQ & Music Fest
- First overall top-10 Smoke on the Plains BBQ & Music Fest
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score336.5028 Smoke on the Plains BBQ & Music Fest
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 | 67% | top 19% | 97.1% | 97.1% |
| 2025 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 22% | 93.5% | 93.5% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 2026 | Cherokee Strip BBQ & Chili Cookoff 🏅 Ponca City, OK | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sep 18, 2026 | Cherokee Strip BBQ & Chili Cookoff (ONE MEAT RIBS) Ponca City, OK | — | — | 6 (168.5372) | — | — |
| Jun 12, 2026 | Smoke on the Plains BBQ & Music Fest 🏅 Derby, KS | 7 / 36 (349.7144) | 6 (174.8572) | 6 (174.8572) | — | — |
| Sep 19, 2025 | Cherokee Strip BBQ & Chili Cook-Off (ONE MEAT RIBS) Ponca City, OK | — | — | 5 (169.6800) | — | — |
| Jun 13, 2025 | Smoke on the Plains BBQ & Music Fest 🏅 Derby, KS | 8 / 36 (336.5028) | 15 (164.5372) | 5 (171.9656) | — | — |