The comeback
2 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 2 years, then back at Smoke on the Plains Derby BBQ & Music Fest (2021-06-11).
- last seen 2019-06-07
- back 2021-06-11
Dem Boys BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1508
peak 1508 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
2019-06-07
latest 2021-06-11
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 5 contests
Avg finish
top 33%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
20%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 161.97 · weakest Pork Ribs (155.37)
Road miles
7
mi across 5 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$23K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
317.34 / 360
2 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Storylines (1 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.
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.
Dem Boys 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 113 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.
#2892 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1520
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#2877 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 3 years before Dem Boys BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2879 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1520
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2013, 6 years before Dem Boys BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#2875 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1518
No shared contest yet.
Level with Dem Boys BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2888 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1520
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2016, 5 years before Dem Boys BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2882 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1508
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2013, 8 years before Dem Boys 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 162.2628 | 161.6800 | 161.97 | top 31% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.3716 | 155.3716 | 155.37 | top 35% |
| Pork | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
| Brisket | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
“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.
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smoke on the Plains Derby BBQ & Music Fest | 2 | 10 | 0 | top 33% | 2021-06-11 |
The story so far (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
2 yrs
2019-06-07 → 2021-06-11
Busiest season
2021
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 5 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
KS
5 of 5 contests
Contests visited
1
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 161.97 · weakest Pork Ribs (155.37)
Walk rate
20%
a top-10 call in 1 of 5 contests
Overall top-10 rate
20%
1 of 5 contests
Backyard average
317.34
out of 360 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
81
55–40 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
7
5 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$22,900
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
2 yrs
2019-06-07 → 2021-06-11
Power rating
1508
peak 1508 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2015
- First tracked contest *Derby BBQ Festival
- 2019
- First call Smoke on the Plains Derby BBQ & Music Fest
- 2021
- First overall top-10 Smoke on the Plains Derby BBQ & Music Fest
- Career-best overall score317.6344 Smoke on the Plains Derby BBQ & Music Fest
- Career-best single call (Chicken)162.2628 Smoke on the Plains Derby BBQ & Music Fest
- Most recent contest Smoke on the Plains Derby BBQ & Music Fest
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)
Season by season
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0% | top 36% | 88.2% | 88.2% |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 31% | 88.1% | 88.1% |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-06-11 | Smoke on the Plains Derby BBQ & Music Fest 🏅 Derby, KS | 10 / 28 (317.6344) | 11 (162.2628) | 11 (155.3716) | — | — |
| 2019-06-07 | Smoke on the Plains Derby BBQ & Music Fest 🏅 Derby, KS | 12 / 39 (317.0516) | 9 (161.6800) | 12 (155.3716) | — | — |
| 2017-09-08 | *Derby BBQ Festival(JUDGES FULL) Derby, KS | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2016-09-09 | *Derby BBQ Festival Derby, KS | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2015-09-11 | *Derby BBQ Festival Derby, KS | — | — | — | — | — |