The comeback
7 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 7 years, then back at BBQ Expo Master's Challenge (2026-04-11).
- last seen 2019-04-26
- back 2026-04-11
FRANKIE'S BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1475
peak 1475 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
2019-04-26
latest 2026-04-11
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 99%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 159.39 · weakest Brisket (141.77)
Road miles
4,390
mi across 4 mapped stops · furthest 4345 mi
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Master avg
596.56 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
295.44 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 0 GCs
Master and Backyard overall scores sit on different scales (Master is out of 720, Backyard out of 360), so they're kept separate — averaging them together would be misleading.
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Storylines (2 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.
The long haul
4,390
road miles between contests
Contest to contest, they've covered roughly 4,390 miles across 4 mapped stops — the longest single trip being 4,345 miles to BBQ Expo Master's Challenge.
- 4 mapped stops
- furthest 4,345 mi
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.
FRANKIE'S 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 154 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.
#4402 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1474
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#4386 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1475
No shared contest yet.
Level with FRANKIE'S BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#4379 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1475
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#4394 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1475
No shared contest yet.
Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2019.
⚔ Head-to-head#4387 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 29%
- Peak
- 1475
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2023, 3 years before FRANKIE'S BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#4388 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1475
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2023, 3 years before FRANKIE'S 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.9772 | 158.8112 | 159.39 | top 95% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 149.1656 | 145.7028 | 147.43 | top 97% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 149.1084 | 146.2744 | 147.69 | top 92% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 141.7716 | 141.7716 | 141.77 | top 93% |
“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.
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 100% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 98% |
The story so far (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
7 yrs
2019-04-26 → 2026-04-11
Busiest season
2026
2 contests
Contests a season
1.3
across 3 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
VA
2 of 4 contests
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 159.39 · weakest Brisket (141.77)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 4 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 4 contests
Master average
596.56
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Backyard average
295.44
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
111
8–102 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
4,390
4 mapped stops · furthest 4,345 mi
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
7 yrs
2019-04-26 → 2026-04-11
Power rating
1475
peak 1475 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2018
- First tracked contest Pickin N Pullin BBQ competition
- 2026
- Career-best overall score596.5600 BBQ Expo Master's Challenge
- Career-best single call (Chicken)159.9772 BBQ Expo Master's Challenge
- Most recent contest The War of Barbeque (ONE MEAT CHICKEN)
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 98% | 82.9% | 82.9% |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 100% | 82.1% | 82.1% |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-20 | The War of Barbeque (ONE MEAT CHICKEN) Peschiera del Garda, 37019 | — | 23 (158.8112) | — | — | — |
| 2026-04-11 | BBQ Expo Master's Challenge PARMA, 43126 | 41 / 42 (596.5600) | 38 (159.9772) | 42 (145.7028) | 42 (149.1084) | 39 (141.7716) |
| 2019-04-26 | Pickin N Pullin BBQ competition 🏅 Lanexa, VA | 32 / 32 (295.4400) | — | 30 (149.1656) | 27 (146.2744) | — |
| 2018-04-27 | Pickin N Pullin BBQ competition Lenexa, VA | — | — | — | — | — |