High-water mark
684.5256
career-best overall
95.1% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 684.5256 at GLBBQA Spring Fling — 95.1% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- Apr 19, 2024
MC Barbeque
MC Barbeque is a competition barbecue team with 9 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2022 and 2025. Their best overall finish is 6th of 16 at the Dowagiac BBQ Competition and Summer Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) (2023). They are ranked #4497 of 6,476 teams in the KCBS power rankings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1473
peak 1473 · rated over 7 contests
Contests
9
in the data
First seen
Aug 5, 2022
latest Sep 19, 2025 · 3.1 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
1
3 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
11% of 9 contests
Avg finish
top 71%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
657.50 ▲
last 5 Master vs avg 655.90 (+1.60)
Walk rate
56%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±13.70
spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 168.34 · weakest Pork Ribs (160.38)
Road miles
550
across 9 mapped stops · furthest 178 mi
Schedule strength
51%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1565)
Purse competed for
$36K
listed at 9 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 6 state-championship entries
Master avg
655.90 / 720
6 Master contests · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
330.21 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 0 GCs
These overall scores sit on different scales (Master out of 720, Backyard out of 360), so they're kept separate — averaging them together would be misleading.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 ↗ | Master | #1089 (83 pts) | #706 (243 pts) | #1251 (78 pts) | #1054 (103 pts) | #1098 (88 pts) |
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to MC Barbeque, each with one reason worth a look.
156 rated teams sit within a point of this rating, so a place on this list means the numbers match — no more than that.
#4,509 of the rated field
- Contests
- 8
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 13%
- Peak
- 1473
This is the highest they've ever been rated, 8 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Compare careers#4,493 of the rated field
- Contests
- 8
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 13%
- Peak
- 1473
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 4 years before MC Barbeque's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#4,499 of the rated field
- Contests
- 8
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1473
Careers of much the same size, 8 contests to 9, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#4,486 of the rated field
- Contests
- 8
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1501
They were already cooking in 2017, 5 years before MC Barbeque's first contest.
⚔ Compare careers#4,477 of the rated field
- Contests
- 8
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 25%
- Peak
- 1473
Level with MC Barbeque on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#4,475 of the rated field
- Contests
- 8
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1504
They've been 1504 at their best, 31 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Compare careersFamiliar foes (most-met opponents in overall standings — one meeting per contest)
| Opponent | Meetings | Ahead | Behind | Win rate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mac Attack BBQ | 6 | 1 | 5 | 17% | ⚔ compare |
| Q-JITSU | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| DAT'S BBQ | 5 | 3 | 2 | 60% | ⚔ compare |
| iBQ'n | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| FIREHOUSE SMOKE | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
By meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 8 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 177.7372 | 161.6688 | 168.34 | top 50% |
| Pork Ribs | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 170.8800 | 142.7772 | 160.38 | top 72% |
| Pork | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 173.7028 | 157.0628 | 164.07 | top 68% |
| Brisket | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 176.5600 | 159.3944 | 164.92 | top 63% |
“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) | 2 | 0 | top 66% |
| Medium (20–39) | 3 | 0 | top 85% |
| Large (40+) | 2 | 0 | top 57% |
Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| September Fest | 2 | 17 | 0 | top 91% | Sep 19, 2025 |
More numbers
Busiest season
2023
3 contests
Contests a season
2.3
across 4 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
MI
6 of 9 contests · 3 states in all
Contests visited
6
1 of them more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
8 entries · 1 win · 4 calls
Opponents faced
162
finished ahead 76 times, behind 172
Longest layoff
1 yrs
Sep 13, 2024 → Sep 19, 2025
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20251 milestone
- Most recent contest September Fest
20241 milestone
- Career-best overall score684.5256 GLBBQA Spring Fling
20233 milestones
- First overall top-10 Dowagiac BBQ Competition and Summer Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First category win (Chicken) Rockin' BBQ Take 2 (ONE MEAT CHICKEN)
- Career-best single call (Chicken)177.7372 Rockin' BBQ Take 2 (ONE MEAT CHICKEN)
20224 milestones
- First tracked contest All American BBQ Throwdown - One Meat Ribs
- Peak power rating (1495) All American BBQ Throwdown
- First call Best of the Midwest BBQ
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score649.0512 Best of the Midwest BBQ
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +8.2 | GLBBQA Spring Fling | Apr 19, 2024 |
| +5.8 | Dowagiac BBQ Competition and Summer Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) | Jul 15, 2023 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -10.2 | September Fest | Sep 13, 2024 |
| -9.2 | September Fest | Sep 19, 2025 |
| -9.1 | Rockin' BBQ Take 2 | Aug 25, 2023 |
| -7.8 | Best of the Midwest BBQ | Oct 14, 2022 |
| -4.8 | All American BBQ Throwdown | Aug 5, 2022 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 88% | 89.6% | 89.6% |
| 2024 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 66% | 95.1% | 92.6% |
| 2023 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 67% | top 64% | 91.7% | 91.7% |
| 2022 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33% | top 76% | 90.1% | 90.1% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 19, 2025 | September Fest 🏅 Coldwater, MI | 23 / 26 (644.9256) | 20 (163.3944) | 24 (158.8000) | 25 (157.0628) | 18 (165.6684) |
| Sep 13, 2024 | September Fest 🏅 Coldwater, MI | 17 / 18 (648.4800) | 2 (176.5716) | 18 (150.8344) | 13 (161.6684) | 16 (159.4056) |
| Apr 19, 2024 | GLBBQA Spring Fling 🏅 Charlotte, MI | 23 / 62 (684.5256) | 51 (163.3828) | 22 (170.8800) | 18 (173.7028) | 2 (176.5600) |
| Aug 25, 2023 | Rockin' BBQ Take 2 🏅 Warsaw, IN | 21 / 23 (660.5032) | 18 (166.8572) | 19 (168.5716) | 22 (161.0972) | 19 (163.9772) |
| Aug 25, 2023 | Rockin' BBQ Take 2 (ONE MEAT CHICKEN) Warsaw, IN | — | 1 (177.7372) | — | — | — |
| Jul 15, 2023 | Dowagiac BBQ Competition and Summer Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Dowagiac, MI | 6 / 16 (330.2056) | 7 (163.9428) | 6 (166.2628) | — | — |
| Oct 14, 2022 | Best of the Midwest BBQ 🏅 Union Grove, WI | 27 / 36 (649.0512) | 7 (173.1428) | 35 (142.7772) | 15 (168.6056) | 20 (164.5256) |
| Aug 5, 2022 | All American BBQ Throwdown 🏅 Westland, MI | 38 / 50 (647.9092) | 41 (161.6688) | 30 (164.5604) | 37 (162.2856) | 38 (159.3944) |
| Aug 5, 2022 | All American BBQ Throwdown - One Meat Ribs Westland, MI | — | — | — | — | — |