Beer City Barbecue

Beer City Barbecue is a competition barbecue team with 2 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record in 2021. They have won 1 Grand Championship, at the American Royal Backyard and Steak Contest (2021).

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At a glance (the record in numbers)

Rating

1508

Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 2

Contests

in the data

First seen

Mar 12, 2021

latest May 21, 2021

Grand champs

0 reserve

Overall top-10s

of 2 contests

Avg finish

top 43%

overall standings

Best overall

325.1316 / 360

Backyard · Twin States Barbecue Showdown (BACKYARD ONLY)

Best single call

165.7144

Chicken · Twin States Barbecue Showdown (BACKYARD ONLY)

Strongest meat

Chicken

avg 159.73 · weakest Pork Ribs (147.39)

Road miles

569

across 2 mapped stops · furthest 569 mi

Purse competed for

$11K

listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings

Backyard avg

307.12 / 360

2 Backyard contests · 0 GCs

This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.

Storylines (2 found in their record)

Each card leads with the number behind the story, straight from their results.

Against the odds

23-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings

The ratings favoured the top seed the other 77 times in 100

Their Grand Championship at American Royal Backyard and Steak Contest (Mar 12, 2021) came as the ratings underdog — roughly a 23-in-100 shot against the field's top-rated team, MEAT RUSHMORE BBQ.

Announced themselves early

1st at their very first contest

Finished 1 of 24 at their very first tracked contest, American Royal Backyard and Steak Contest (Mar 12, 2021).

Mar 12, 2021
24-team field

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
2021 ↗	Backyard	—	#152 (176 pts)	#194 (121 pts)	—	—

By meat

Category	Entries	Calls	Wins	Podiums	Best	Worst	Average	Avg finish
Chicken	2	0	0	0	165.7144	153.7372	159.73	top 74%
Pork Ribs	2	0	0	0	159.4172	135.3712	147.39	top 98%

“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

First title Mar 12, 2021 American Royal Backyard and Steak Contest

Opponents faced 48 finished ahead 30 times, behind 17

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

20218 milestones

Mar 12 First tracked contest American Royal Backyard and Steak Contest
Mar 12 First overall top-10 American Royal Backyard and Steak Contest
Mar 12 First overall podium American Royal Backyard and Steak Contest
Mar 12 First Grand Championship American Royal Backyard and Steak Contest
Mar 12 First overall past 90% of a perfect score178.3200 American Royal Backyard and Steak Contest
May 21 Career-best overall score325.1316 Twin States Barbecue Showdown (BACKYARD ONLY)
May 21 Career-best single call (Chicken)165.7144 Twin States Barbecue Showdown (BACKYARD ONLY)
May 21 Most recent contest Twin States Barbecue Showdown (BACKYARD ONLY)

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

Date	Event	Overall	Chicken	Ribs	Pork	Brisket
May 21, 2021	Twin States Barbecue Showdown (BACKYARD ONLY) Meridian, MS	18 / 22 (325.1316)	15 (165.7144)	22 (159.4172)	—	—
Mar 12, 2021	American Royal Backyard and Steak Contest Kansas City, MO	1 / 24 (178.3200)	19 (153.7372)	23 (135.3712)	—	—