- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1491
5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Pappa Joe's Backyard BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headStill inside their first twelve months: see what a first season usually looks like.
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.
Pappa Joe's Backyard BBQ has 1 rated contest — 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 145 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.
5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Pappa Joe's Backyard BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2026.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Pappa Joe's Backyard BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Pappa Joe's Backyard BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2022, 4 years before Pappa Joe's Backyard BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2021, 5 years before Pappa Joe's Backyard BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.4400 | 167.4400 | 167.44 | top 66% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.8456 | 166.8456 | 166.85 | top 83% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 149.0972 | 149.0972 | 149.10 | top 100% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 143.9544 | 143.9544 | 143.95 | top 100% |
“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.
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 97% | 87.1% | 87.1% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-17 | The Downtown Grand Master BBQ Showdown 🏅 Las Vegas, NV | 28 / 29 (627.3372) | 19 (167.4400) | 24 (166.8456) | 29 (149.0972) | 29 (143.9544) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 ↗ | Master | #1195 (54 pts) | #955 (84 pts) | #1234 (59 pts) | #1196 (54 pts) | #1190 (54 pts) |