High-water mark
673.6000
career-best overall
93.6% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 673.6000 at ND BBQ Championship — 93.6% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- May 1, 2026
Still Can't Win BBQ
Still Can't Win BBQ is a competition barbecue team with 5 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2024 and 2026. Their best overall finish is 34th of 71 at the ND BBQ Championship (2026). They finished #1020 in the 2026 Master Series Team of the Year standings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1493
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 3
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
Sep 27, 2024
latest May 1, 2026 · 1.6 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
0% of 5 contests
Avg finish
top 69%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±17.12
spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 166.26 · weakest Brisket (154.24)
Road miles
0
across 5 mapped stops
Schedule strength
65%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1582)
Purse competed for
$30K
listed at 4 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 3 state-championship entries
Master avg
650.73 / 720
3 Master contests · 0 GCs
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 ↗ | Master | #1020 (60 pts) | #937 (115 pts) | #810 (175 pts) | #930 (105 pts) | #1051 (60 pts) |
| 2025 ↗ | Master | #1148 (60 pts) | #1221 (60 pts) | #921 (154 pts) | #1190 (60 pts) | #1190 (60 pts) |
| 2024 ↗ | Master | #1182 (60 pts) | #1242 (60 pts) | #1317 (60 pts) | #1231 (60 pts) | #1204 (60 pts) |
Overall rank by season
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to Still Can't Win BBQ, each with one reason worth a look.
Still Can't Win BBQ has 3 rated contests, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 139 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#3,519 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1519
1–1 in 2 shared contests (50% to Still Can't Win BBQ)
2 contests in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Still Can't Win BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head#3,510 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1493
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#3,508 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1503
Their last contest in the data was back in 2023, 3 years before Still Can't Win BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#3,498 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1504
They were already cooking in 2014, 10 years before Still Can't Win BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Compare careers#3,486 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1505
Level with Still Can't Win BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#3,502 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1513
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 9 years before Still Can't Win BBQ'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 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 173.1084 | 153.6340 | 163.77 | top 60% |
| Pork Ribs | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.1316 | 161.1084 | 165.47 | top 51% |
| Pork | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 173.1200 | 158.8000 | 166.26 | top 53% |
| Brisket | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.2400 | 146.2288 | 154.24 | top 83% |
“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.
Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ND BBQ Championship | 3 | 34 | 0 | top 69% | May 1, 2026 |
More numbers
Busiest season
2026
2 contests
Contests a season
1.7
across 3 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
ND
5 of 5 contests
Contests visited
1
1 of them more than once
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
5 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Opponents faced
91
finished ahead 56 times, behind 105
Longest layoff
1 yrs
Sep 27, 2024 → Oct 3, 2025
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20264 milestones
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score673.6000 ND BBQ Championship
- Career-best overall score673.6000 ND BBQ Championship
- Career-best single call (Pork)173.1200 ND BBQ Championship
- Most recent contest ND BBQ Championship
20242 milestones
- First tracked contest ND BBQ Championship
- Peak power rating (1496) ND BBQ Championship
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +5 | ND BBQ Championship | May 1, 2026 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -8 | ND BBQ Championship | Oct 3, 2025 |
| -4.1 | ND BBQ Championship | Sep 27, 2024 |
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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 48% | 93.6% | 93.6% |
| 2025 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 87% | 87.8% | 87.8% |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 72% | 89.7% | 89.7% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 2026 | ND BBQ Championship 🏅 Fargo, ND | 34 / 71 (673.6000) | 14 (173.1084) | 28 (169.1316) | 16 (173.1200) | 58 (158.2400) |
| May 1, 2026 | ND BBQ Championship (ONE MEAT RIBS) Fargo, ND | — | — | 14 (166.8572) | — | — |
| Oct 3, 2025 | ND BBQ Championship 🏅 Fargo, ND | 40 / 46 (632.4000) | 45 (153.6340) | 26 (165.6800) | 27 (166.8572) | 43 (146.2288) |
| Oct 3, 2025 | ND BBQ Championship (ONE MEAT RIBS) Fargo, ND | — | — | 16 (161.1084) | — | — |
| Sep 27, 2024 | ND BBQ Championship 🏅 Fargo, ND | 34 / 47 (646.1828) | 29 (164.5600) | 26 (164.5828) | 37 (158.8000) | 35 (158.2400) |