A tough matchup
4–0
behind in the head-to-head
Buckeye Blue Smoke BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings
Buckeye Blue Smoke BBQ has come out ahead in 4 of their 4 shared contests.
Squealing Reels BBQ
Squealing Reels BBQ is a competition barbecue team with 10 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2025 and 2026. Their best overall finish is 11th of 26 at the New Jersey KnoQ-out - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (DAY 2) (2026). They finished #179 in the 2026 Backyard Series Team of the Year standings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1503
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 4
Contests
10
in the data
First seen
Oct 24, 2025
latest Apr 18, 2026
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
0% of 10 contests
Avg finish
top 47%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
40%
contests with a top-10 call
Best single call
174.2744
Consistency
±6.26
spread of their Backyard overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 164.06 · weakest Pork Ribs (161.96)
Road miles
197
across 10 mapped stops · furthest 120 mi
Schedule strength
70%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1588)
Purse competed for
$26K
listed at 10 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 5 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
323.07 / 360
4 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here. Still inside their first twelve months: see what a first season usually looks like.
Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to Squealing Reels BBQ, each with one reason worth a look.
Squealing Reels BBQ has 4 rated contests, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 123 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#3,106 of the rated field
- Contests
- 10
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1505
1–1 in 2 shared contests (50% to Squealing Reels BBQ)
2 contests in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Squealing Reels BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head#3,100 of the rated field
- Contests
- 15
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 27%
- Peak
- 1505
0–2 in 2 shared contests (0% to Squealing Reels BBQ)
This is the highest they've ever been rated, 15 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Head-to-head#3,102 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1511
Their last contest in the data was back in 2023, 3 years before Squealing Reels BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#3,133 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1507
Fewer contests behind them than Squealing Reels BBQ has cooked, 5 to 10, which makes theirs the less settled rating of the two.
⚔ Compare careers#3,112 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1506
They were already cooking in 2017, 8 years before Squealing Reels BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Compare careers#3,130 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
Level with Squealing Reels BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careersBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 170.8228 | 154.7884 | 164.06 | top 54% |
| Pork Ribs | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 174.2744 | 157.6572 | 161.96 | top 53% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey KnoQ-out - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (DAY 2) | 2 | 11 | 0 | top 44% | Apr 18, 2026 |
| Red White & Que - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (Day 2) | 2 | 15 | 0 | top 49% | Oct 25, 2025 |
More numbers
Busiest season
2025
6 contests
Contests a season
5
across 2 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
NJ
7 of 10 contests · 2 states in all
Contests visited
2
2 of them more than once
Opponents faced
84
finished ahead 72 times, behind 100
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20264 milestones
- 10th tracked contest New Jersey KnoQ-out - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (DAY 2)
- Career-best overall score330.2056 New Jersey KnoQ-out - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (DAY 2)
- Peak power rating (1503) New Jersey KnoQ-out - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (DAY 2)
- Most recent contest New Jersey KnoQ-out - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (DAY 2)
20254 milestones
- First tracked contest Southern New England Barbecue Throwdown - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (ONE MEAT RIBS)
- First call Southern New England Barbecue Throwdown - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (ONE MEAT RIBS)
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)174.2744 Southern New England Barbecue Throwdown - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (ONE MEAT RIBS)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score326.8232 Red White & Que - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (Day 2)
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +1.4 | New Jersey KnoQ-out - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (DAY 2) | Apr 18, 2026 |
| +0.5 | Red White & Que - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (Day 2) | Oct 25, 2025 |
| +0.4 | New Jersey KnoQ-out - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (DAY 1) | Apr 17, 2026 |
| +0.3 | Red White & Que - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (Day 1) | Oct 24, 2025 |
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 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 44% | 91.7% | 90.5% |
| 2025 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33% | top 49% | 90.8% | 88.9% |