#3712 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headYoung Gun BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1489
peak 1489 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2025-10-03
latest 2026-06-05
Best ToY finish
#927
Master 2026
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 80%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Brisket
avg 165.96 · weakest Chicken (160.81)
Road miles
32
mi across 2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$15K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
651.23 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs
Still inside their first twelve months: see what a first season usually looks like.
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.
Young Gun BBQ 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 147 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.
#3730 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2025.
⚔ Head-to-head#3698 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1500
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2023, 3 years before Young Gun BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3697 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1489
No shared contest yet.
Level with Young Gun BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3726 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1489
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 5 years before Young Gun BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3733 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1511
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 8 years before Young Gun BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.6688 | 159.9544 | 160.81 | top 84% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.9660 | 162.8000 | 163.38 | top 83% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.9428 | 158.2172 | 161.08 | top 88% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.3828 | 164.5372 | 165.96 | top 69% |
“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.
The story so far (15 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0.7 yrs
2025-10-03 → 2026-06-05
Busiest season
2026
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
KS
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Brisket
averages 165.96 · weakest Chicken (160.81)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 2 contests
Master average
651.23
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
45
10–39 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
32
2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$15,400
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Power rating
1489
peak 1489 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2025
- First tracked contest Meat Inferno
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score648.3892 Meat Inferno
- 2026
- Career-best overall score654.0800 McLouth BBQ Blowout 35th Annual
- Career-best single call (Brisket)167.3828 McLouth BBQ Blowout 35th Annual
- Most recent contest McLouth BBQ Blowout 35th Annual
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
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 80% | 90.8% | 90.8% |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 81% | 90.1% | 90.1% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-05 | McLouth BBQ Blowout 35th Annual 🏅 McLouth, KS | 24 / 30 (654.0800) | 29 (159.9544) | 27 (162.8000) | 24 (163.9428) | 17 (167.3828) |
| 2025-10-03 | Meat Inferno 🏅 Edgerton, KS | 17 / 21 (648.3892) | 15 (161.6688) | 16 (163.9660) | 20 (158.2172) | 17 (164.5372) |
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)
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 ↗ | Master | #927 (60 pts) | #1233 (55 pts) | #1265 (55 pts) | #970 (60 pts) | #879 (95 pts) |
| 2025 ↗ | Master | #1050 (86 pts) | #1084 (96 pts) | #1199 (91 pts) | #1143 (71 pts) | #1085 (86 pts) |