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YOU NEED A BBQ

At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)

Power ranking

#872
of 6,413 rated · rankings

Rating

1619
peak 1654 · rated over 44 contests

Best runs

5
straight top-10s

Contests

47
in the data

First seen

2016-06-18
latest 2026-08-28

Best ToY finish

#229
Master 2023

Grand champs

0
2 reserve

Category wins

5
22 podiums

Overall top-10s

25
of 47 contests

Avg finish

top 35%
overall standings

Best overall

695.3368 / 720

Perfect 180s

1 🔥

Current form

680.60 ▲
last 5 Master vs avg 660.63 (+19.98)

Walk rate

81%
contests with a top-10 call

Top-10 streak

5
best run (overall)

Best single call

180.0000 🔥

Consistency

±21.96
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)

Strongest meat

Brisket
avg 167.03 · weakest Chicken (163.49)

Road miles

14,949
mi across 47 mapped stops · furthest 1286 mi

Schedule strength

24%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1533)

Purse competed for

$189K
listed at 11 contests — purses, not winnings

State championships

0 🏅
GCs in 8 state-championship entries

Master avg

660.63 / 720
44 Master contests · 0 GCs

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Storylines (13 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.

Perfect scores on the board

1 perfect 180s

1 perfect 180 in the data — every judge at the table handing back a nine, all in pork ribs.

  • Pork Ribs ×1

Happy hunting ground

Top 18% average finish here

Barbeque on the Bow Festival is their spot: an average finish in the top 18% across 2 visits.

  • 2 visits
  • best finish 3rd
  • average top 18%

They almost always walk

81% of contests with a top-10 call

A call in 38 of 47 contests

A top-10 category call in 81% of their 47 contests — they get to the stage more often than not.

The one to beat

one call ahead of them

SMELLAQUE has finished one call ahead of YOU NEED A BBQ 3 times — their closest competition in the data.

Their season

2023 their best year

2023 was the year it came together: 5 contests, 0 Grand Championships and 1 category win, at an average finish in the top 22%.

  • 5 contests
  • 4 overall top-10s
  • 1 category wins
  • average top 22%

A strong matchup

19–6 ahead in the head-to-head

Ahead in 76% of their meetings

They've finished ahead of MOTLEY QUE in 19 of their 25 shared contests.

Brisket nemesis

25 of 36 shared brisket entries lost

SMELLAQUE ahead 69% of the time

Even in their strongest meat, SMELLAQUE has out-cooked them in 25 of 36 shared brisket entries.

Built for the big stage

Top 26% average finish in large fields

Field size changes the story: they average a top 26% finish in large fields against top 37% in small ones.

  • Large (40+): top 26% (9)
  • Small (<20 teams): top 37% (7)

Looking over their shoulder

one call behind them

Homestead Smoke Shack has landed one call behind them 2 times.

A June team

Top 25% average finish in June

Something about June: average finish in the top 25% across 7 contests, versus top 35% the rest of the year.

  • 7 June contests
  • top 35% the rest of the year

The long haul

14,949 road miles between contests

Contest to contest, they've covered roughly 14,949 miles across 47 mapped stops — the longest single trip being 1,286 miles to American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Sides.

  • 47 mapped stops
  • furthest 1,286 mi

A standing appointment

5 years running at one contest

They've cooked Montana Pitmaster Classic every year from 2022 to 2026 — the contest they never miss.

  • 7 visits in all
  • best finish 4th

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.

FAIRWAY SMOKERS
#875 of the rated field
1618 ▼ 0 power rating
Contests
59
GCs
0
Top-10s
19%
Peak
1643
0–1 in 1 shared contest (0% to YOU NEED A BBQ)

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

  • rated over 58 contests
  • last seen 2026-08-14
⚔ Head-to-head
Wabash BBQ
#873 of the rated field
1619 ▼ 0 power rating
Contests
99
GCs
1
Top-10s
24%
Peak
1670
1–1 in 2 shared contests (50% to YOU NEED A BBQ)

They've been 1670 at their best, 52 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.

  • rated over 95 contests
  • last seen 2026-04-24
⚔ Head-to-head
CHIP ON OUR SHOULDER
#870 of the rated field
1619 ▲ 0 power rating
Contests
40
GCs
0
Top-10s
18%
Peak
1629
No shared contest yet.

Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 8 years before YOU NEED A BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.

  • rated over 40 contests
⚔ Head-to-head
Lucky Smoke
#871 of the rated field
1619 ▲ 0 power rating
Contests
35
GCs
0
Top-10s
29%
Peak
1619
No shared contest yet.

Careers of much the same size, 35 contests to 47, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.

  • rated over 34 contests
  • last seen 2024-08-16
⚔ Head-to-head
Pigtamer BBQ
#877 of the rated field
1618 ▼ 0 power rating
Contests
67
GCs
2
Top-10s
25%
Peak
1646
No shared contest yet.

Their rating is built on 2 Grand Championships in 67 contests, alongside a 25% overall top-10 rate.

  • rated over 65 contests
  • last seen 2023-07-14
⚔ Head-to-head
PIG NEWTON
#874 of the rated field
1618 ▼ 0 power rating
Contests
94
GCs
0
Top-10s
17%
Peak
1657
No shared contest yet.

Level with YOU NEED A BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.

  • rated over 94 contests
  • last seen 2026-06-05
⚔ Head-to-head

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

OpponentMeetingsAheadBehindWin rate
SMELLAQUE 36 5 31 14% ⚔ compare
Kreiser Barbecue 27 15 11 56% ⚔ compare
MOTLEY QUE 25 19 6 76% ⚔ compare
Hogparts School of Smokecraft and Brew'ery 23 14 9 61% ⚔ compare
ARROWHEAD NORTH BBQ 23 5 18 22% ⚔ compare
ROCKY MOUNTAIN SMOKERS 22 13 9 59% ⚔ compare
Rack Addicts BBQ Team 19 18 1 95% ⚔ compare
Fire BBQ 19 15 4 79% ⚔ compare
BBQ TEAM NAIT 18 8 10 44% ⚔ compare
GRIZZLY PAW SMOKERS 16 14 2 88% ⚔ compare
PRAIRIE SMOKE & SPICE BBQ 16 0 16 0% ⚔ compare
SMOKAPALOOZA 15 14 1 93% ⚔ compare
THE DEVIL MADE ME Q IT 15 12 3 80% ⚔ compare
ROKER Q 14 12 2 86% ⚔ compare
FROZEN TOQUE BBQ 14 9 5 64% ⚔ compare

By meat

CategoryEntriesCallsWinsPodiumsBestWorstAverageAvg finish
Chicken 45 14 0 2 176.5944 134.2400 163.49 top 51%
Pork Ribs 45 24 3 6 180.0000 🔥 151.3712 165.75 top 41%
Pork 44 16 0 4 178.8572 141.0740 164.50 top 44%
Brisket 44 30 2 10 177.1428 150.7884 167.03 top 28%

“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

WhereContestsGCsAvg finish
AB210top 37%
MT70top 33%
CA30top 39%
KS20top 52%
BC10top 56%
ID10top 53%
SK10top 11%

By contest size

FieldContestsGCsAvg finish
Small (<20 teams)70top 37%
Medium (20–39)280top 37%
Large (40+)90top 26%

Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)

ContestVisitsBestGCsAvg finishLast visit
Montana Pitmaster Classic 7 4 0 top 33% 2026-08-28
Porkapalooza BBQ Festival 4 4 0 top 21% 2019-06-15
Embers and Ice Pitmaster Championship 3 8 0 top 44% 2026-05-23
The Didsbury Double (Didsbury Lions BBQ) (Day 2) 2 5 0 top 36% 2026-07-25
Barbeque on the Bow Festival 2 3 0 top 18% 2025-08-30
Didsbury Lions BBQ 2 3 0 top 48% 2025-07-26
Porkapalooza BBQ Festival 2 7 0 top 35% 2022-05-28
Battle River BBQ Showdown 2 5 0 top 30% 2019-08-10
BBQ on the Bow 2 7 0 top 21% 2018-09-01
Those Were The Days BBQ Showdown 2 2 0 top 29% 2017-08-12

The story so far (19 numbers that describe this team)

On the trail 10.2 yrs 2016-06-18 → 2026-08-28
Busiest season 2025 7 contests
Contests a season 4.3 across 11 seasons in the data
Cooks most in AB 23 of 47 contests · 7 states/provinces in all
Contests visited 26 10 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat Chicken 45 entries · 0 wins · 14 calls
Strongest meat Brisket averages 167.03 · weakest Chicken (163.49)
Walk rate 81% a top-10 call in 38 of 47 contests
Overall top-10 rate 53% 25 of 47 contests
Best top-10 run 5 straight contests
Master average 660.63 out of 720 · 44 contests · 0 GCs
Perfect 180s 1 every judge at the table handing back a nine
Opponents faced 871 1,249–522 across every shared overall standing
Road miles 14,949 47 mapped stops · furthest 1,286 mi
Schedule strength 1533 average field rating faced — tougher than 24% of rated contests
Purse competed for $188,585 listed at 11 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships 0 from 8 state-championship entries
Longest layoff 1.1 yrs 2019-08-31 → 2020-09-26
Power rating 1619 peak 1654 · #872 of 6,413 rated

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

  1. 2016
  2. First tracked contest Porkapalooza BBQ Festival
  3. First call Those Were The Days BBQ Showdown
  4. First overall top-10 Those Were The Days BBQ Showdown
  5. First overall past 90% of a perfect score655.4284 BBQ on the Bow
  6. 2017
  7. First overall podium Those Were The Days BBQ Showdown
  8. First Reserve Championship Those Were The Days BBQ Showdown
  9. 2018
  10. 10th tracked contest Porkapalooza BBQ Festival
  11. First category win (Pork Ribs) *Montana Pitmaster Classic
  12. 2022
  13. 25th tracked contest Barbeque on the Bow
  14. 2023
  15. First perfect 180 (Pork Ribs) Montana Pitmaster Classic
  16. Peak power rating (1654) Barbeque on the Bow Festival
  17. 2025
  18. Career-best overall score695.3368 American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest
  19. 2026
  20. Most recent contest Montana Pitmaster Classic

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

📈 Biggest rating jumps

SwingContestDate
+14.1Those Were The Days BBQ Showdown2017-08-12
+12.2Porkapalooza BBQ Festival2018-06-16
+11.6American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest2025-11-05
+10.6Barbeque on the Bow2022-09-03
+10.5Porkapalooza BBQ Festival2017-06-10

📉 Toughest weekends

SwingContestDate
-14.7Smoke in the Spring2024-04-05
-12.3Didsbury Lions BBQ2025-07-26
-11.5Heritage Heat Western Smokin BBQ2019-05-25
-10.3Embers and Ice Pitmaster Championship2025-05-24
-5.2Embers and Ice Pitmaster Championship (formerly Porkapalooza BBQ Festival)2023-09-16

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)

Team of the Year rank by season

Season by season

SeasonContestsGCsTop-10sCategory winsWalk rateAvg finishBest overall (% of perfect)Avg overall (% of perfect)
20266031 83% top 37% 95.8% 94%
20257000 43% top 46% 96.6% 93%
20244010 75% top 57% 94.7% 93.2%
20235041 100% top 22% 95.8% 95.2%
20224031 75% top 23% 94.4% 93.6%
20211000 100% top 52% 87.6% 87.6%
20201010 0% top 43% 87.2% 87.2%
20195041 100% top 33% 93.4% 89.6%
20186051 100% top 25% 94.2% 91.3%
20175020 100% top 30% 90.2% 88.5%
20163020 67% top 39% 91% 88.6%

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

DateEventOverallChickenRibsPorkBrisket
2026-08-28 Montana Pitmaster Classic 🏅 Bozeman, MT 16 / 39 (689.6572) 27 (165.6800) 28 (168.5600) 3 (178.8572) 7 (176.5600)
2026-07-25 The Didsbury Double (Didsbury Lions BBQ) (Day 2) Didsbury, AB 5 / 18 (673.0172) 16 (161.6572) 2 (174.8572) 12 (162.7884) 1 (173.7144)
2026-07-24 The Didsbury Double (Didsbury Lions BBQ) (Day 1) Didsbury, AB 8 / 18 (665.0740) 15 (166.2628) 11 (163.3828) 7 (165.7256) 7 (169.7028)
2026-05-23 Embers and Ice Pitmaster Championship Calmar, AB 8 / 23 (679.9316) 6 (170.8344) 8 (169.1200) 15 (162.8344) 3 (177.1428)
2026-05-23 Embers and Ice Pitmaster Championship (ONE MEAT CHICKEN) Calmar, AB 6 (170.2744)
2026-05-23 Embers and Ice Pitmaster Championship (ONE MEAT RIBS) Calmar, AB 13 (165.1200)
2025-11-05 American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Sides Kansas City, KS
2025-11-05 American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest 🏅 Kansas City, KS 47 / 401 (695.3368) 91 (174.2628) 145 (171.9656) 102 (174.2628) 61 (174.8456)
2025-09-27 Smoke in the Valley Edmonton, AB 14 / 23 (661.0516) 23 (158.7884) 6 (170.8572) 12 (166.2516) 13 (165.1544)
2025-08-30 Barbeque on the Bow Festival Calgary, AB 11 / 38 (674.8572) 27 (165.7028) 6 (172.0000) 19 (168.5600) 9 (168.5944)
2025-08-22 Montana Pitmaster Classic 🏅 Bozeman, MT 14 / 38 (687.9772) 7 (176.5944) 26 (166.8456) 27 (168.5372) 9 (176.0000)
2025-07-26 Didsbury Lions BBQ Didsbury, AB 25 / 32 (651.8396) 20 (166.2628) 28 (161.0968) 25 (161.6572) 18 (162.8228)
2025-05-24 Embers and Ice Pitmaster Championship Calmar, AB 21 / 34 (646.6744) 20 (161.6800) 17 (161.6572) 24 (158.8116) 16 (164.5256)
2024-08-23 Montana Pitmaster Classic 🏅 Bozeman, MT 18 / 39 (681.6456) 17 (169.7028) 30 (163.4172) 8 (174.2628) 8 (174.2628)
2024-06-01 Columbia Valley Smoke Show Invermere, BC 5 / 9 (681.0972) 6 (163.9772) 4 (171.4172) 5 (169.7028) 2 (176.0000)
2024-05-25 Embers and Ice Pitmaster Championship Calmar, AB 14 / 39 (675.9200) 26 (164.5372) 18 (165.1428) 14 (170.8344) 6 (175.4056)
2024-04-05 Smoke in the Spring 🏅 Osage City, KS 89 / 97 (644.9712) 90 (157.1084) 84 (162.2628) 85 (162.8000) 78 (162.8000)
2023-09-16 Embers and Ice Pitmaster Championship (formerly Porkapalooza BBQ Festival) Sherwood Park, Edmonton, AB 15 / 29 (673.6916) 10 (170.2856) 19 (163.9888) 16 (164.5372) 5 (174.8800)
2023-09-02 Barbeque on the Bow Festival Calgary, AB 3 / 40 (689.0968) 22 (166.8112) 5 (174.8572) 12 (172.5828) 4 (174.8456)
2023-08-25 Montana Pitmaster Classic 🏅 Bozeman, MT 7 / 44 (689.6576) 32 (163.9660) 1 (180.0000) 6 (173.7144) 7 (171.9772)
2023-08-05 Didsbury Lions BBQ Didsbury, AB 3 / 17 (683.3368) 4 (172.5484) 5 (170.2744) 8 (165.1084) 2 (175.4056)
2023-06-03 Small Town Smoke Down Bassano, AB 4 / 23 (689.6804) 13 (169.1316) 11 (169.1316) 4 (176.0000) 5 (175.4172)
2022-09-03 Barbeque on the Bow Calgary, AB 2 / 36 (679.3368) 5 (172.5484) 6 (170.2628) 13 (167.9884) 6 (168.5372)
2022-08-26 Montana Pitmaster Classic 🏅 Bozeman, MT 19 / 37 (671.2680) 12 (171.9772) 27 (163.3596) 20 (167.4056) 17 (168.5256)
2022-06-03 Small Town Smoke Down Bassano Alberta Bassano, AB 5 / 31 (674.9144) 26 (155.3828) 1 (177.1544) 3 (176.0572) 12 (166.3200)
2022-05-28 Porkapalooza BBQ Festival SHERWOOD PARK, AB 7 / 39 (670.7772) 14 (165.0972) 5 (169.7028) 2 (177.7028) 22 (158.2744)
2021-08-14 Porkapalooza BBQ Festival SHERWOOD PARK, AB 13 / 25 (630.8228) 13 (157.7144) 14 (157.7028) 15 (157.1200) 10 (158.2856)
2020-09-26 BBQ on the Bow Didsbury, AB 9 / 21 (627.9084) 12 (155.4056) 11 (155.4516) 12 (161.1084) 11 (155.9428)
2019-08-31 BBQ on the Bow Calgary, T3B 0H7 4 / 37 (166.2972) 15 (160.5600) 10 (162.8456) 19 (158.8456) 1 (171.4056)
2019-08-23 Montana Pitmaster Classic 🏅 Bozeman, MT 7 / 29 (666.7316) 14 (163.9544) 6 (168.5372) 10 (159.9428) 2 (174.2972)
2019-08-10 Battle River BBQ Showdown Camrose, AB 8 / 20 (631.3028) 4 (162.2628) 8 (162.8228) 18 (141.0744) 3 (165.1428)
2019-06-15 Porkapalooza BBQ Festival Edmonton, T6E 5K1 5 / 44 (672.6400) 2 (172.0572) 9 (168.0000) 14 (163.9656) 9 (168.6172)
2019-05-25 Heritage Heat Western Smokin BBQ Mountain View, AB 17 / 22 (608.9708) 17 (153.7256) 7 (163.3828) 21 (141.0740) 15 (150.7884)
2018-09-01 BBQ on the Bow Calgary, T2W3J6 7 / 43 (649.7600) 16 (162.8800) 4 (165.7028) 14 (158.8572) 10 (162.3200)
2018-08-24 *Montana Pitmaster Classic Bozeman, MT 4 / 26 (678.2744) 6 (166.8228) 1 (178.8572) 5 (170.2744) 11 (162.3200)
2018-08-18 *Battle River BBQ Showdown Camrose, AB 5 / 25 (647.9428) 12 (161.1428) 5 (162.2856) 3 (169.1316) 10 (155.3828)
2018-07-13 *The Great Northwest Barbecue & Beer Festival Coeur d' Alene, ID 10 / 19 (667.9196) 13 (162.2168) 2 (176.5944) 13 (161.7028) 11 (167.4056)
2018-06-16 Porkapalooza BBQ Festival Edmonton, T6E 5K1 4 / 51 (656.6052) 3 (168.6628) 3 (168.5828) 18 (157.6912) 11 (161.6684)
2018-05-12 Smokin Q at Lynwood Ranch Aldersyde, T1A5H8 11 / 30 (644.4568) 23 (156.0000) 23 (154.7884) 4 (169.7028) 7 (163.9656)
2017-09-02 BBQ on the Bow Calgary, T2W3J6 11 / 42 (635.3828) 30 (151.4400) 8 (163.4288) 27 (153.6568) 2 (166.8572)
2017-08-12 Those Were The Days BBQ Showdown North Battleford, SK 2 / 18 (649.6684) 4 (166.2856) 6 (162.2628) 7 (162.2744) 4 (158.8456)
2017-07-07 *BBQ on the Elbow at the Calgary Stampede Calgary, T2 W 3J6 14 / 23 (618.2628) 23 (134.2400) 11 (160.0000) 5 (164.0000) 6 (160.0228)
2017-06-10 Porkapalooza BBQ Festival Edmonton, T6E 5K1 7 / 39 (647.9312) 18 (158.2400) 9 (162.8340) 8 (161.1544) 3 (165.7028)
2017-05-13 Smokin Q at Lynnwood Ranch Okotoks, AB 12 / 34 (634.8000) 27 (150.8572) 20 (156.0000) 11 (161.6684) 2 (166.2744)
2016-09-03 BBQ on the Bow Calgary, Alberta, CA 8 / 35 (655.4284) 7 (166.8572) 19 (157.1656) 15 (162.2628) 6 (169.1428)
2016-08-06 Those Were The Days BBQ Showdown North Battleford, Saskatchewan, CA 8 / 17 (635.4632) 7 (162.2744) 17 (153.7488) 12 (158.8572) 5 (160.5828)
2016-06-18 Porkapalooza BBQ Festival Edmonton, CA 20 / 42 (622.7652) 15 (162.2628) 32 (151.3712) 19 (156.5940) 20 (152.5372)

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)

YearSeriesOverallChickenRibsPorkBrisket
2026 ↗ Master #296 (554 pts) #320 (562 pts) #303 (662 pts) #290 (589 pts) #203 (804 pts)
2025 ↗ Master #385 (544 pts) #452 (509 pts) #404 (614 pts) #456 (444 pts) #353 (654 pts)
2024 ↗ Master #456 (429 pts) #537 (369 pts) #557 (399 pts) #433 (489 pts) #362 (624 pts)
2023 ↗ Master #229 (919 pts) #402 (564 pts) #295 (839 pts) #294 (734 pts) #216 (969 pts)
2022 ↗ Master #330 (696 pts) #466 (481 pts) #364 (701 pts) #346 (696 pts) #481 (471 pts)
2021 ↗ Master #1029 (110 pts) #1087 (110 pts) #1144 (105 pts) #1113 (100 pts) #934 (125 pts)
2019 ↗ Master #435 (746 pts) #446 (761 pts) #466 (741 pts) #692 (481 pts) #316 (1001 pts)
2018 ↗ Master #339 (995 pts) #460 (790 pts) #246 (1205 pts) #384 (920 pts) #467 (785 pts)
2017 ↗ Master #491 (765 pts) #846 (465 pts) #610 (660 pts) #606 (665 pts) #337 (1110 pts)

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