The one to beat
2×
one call ahead of them
OUR BARK IS BETTER THAN YOUR BITE has finished one call ahead of Garage Beers BBQ 2 times — their closest competition in the data.
Garage Beers BBQ
Garage Beers BBQ is a competition barbecue team with 12 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2023 and 2026. Their best overall finish is 14th of 40 at the BBQ Gives Back (Day 1) (2026). They finished #285 in the 2026 Backyard Series Team of the Year standings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1479
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 4
Contests
12
in the data
First seen
Mar 24, 2023
latest Mar 27, 2026 · 3 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
0% of 12 contests
Avg finish
top 78%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
17%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±8.70
spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 165.18 · weakest Pork (155.55)
Road miles
0
across 12 mapped stops
Schedule strength
81%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1605)
Purse competed for
$24K
listed at 4 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 6 state-championship entries
Master avg
646.51 / 720
3 Master contests · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
332.53 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 0 GCs
These overall scores sit on different scales (Master 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.
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 ↗ | Backyard | #285 (104 pts) | #168 (266 pts) | #225 (175 pts) | — | — |
| 2026 ↗ | Master | — | #906 (122 pts) | #1143 (81 pts) | — | — |
| 2025 ↗ | Master | #1148 (60 pts) | #927 (129 pts) | #911 (156 pts) | #1190 (60 pts) | #1190 (60 pts) |
| 2024 ↗ | Master | #1182 (60 pts) | #862 (162 pts) | #1014 (121 pts) | #1231 (60 pts) | #1204 (60 pts) |
| 2023 ↗ | Master | #1255 (60 pts) | #977 (133 pts) | #883 (193 pts) | #1287 (60 pts) | #1296 (60 pts) |
Overall rank by season
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to Garage Beers BBQ, each with one reason worth a look.
Garage Beers 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 134 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#4,227 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1511
They've been 1511 at their best, 33 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Compare careers#4,234 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
Fewer contests behind them than Garage Beers BBQ has cooked, 5 to 12, which makes theirs the less settled rating of the two.
⚔ Compare careers#4,235 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1502
Level with Garage Beers BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#4,240 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1478
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 8 years before Garage Beers BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#4,211 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1479
They were already cooking in 2014, 9 years before Garage Beers BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Compare careers#4,218 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1479
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 9 years before Garage Beers 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 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 170.8460 | 155.9660 | 165.18 | top 67% |
| Pork Ribs | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 170.2744 | 160.5828 | 164.41 | top 67% |
| Pork | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.3828 | 150.2172 | 155.55 | top 92% |
| Brisket | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.3944 | 160.5144 | 164.92 | top 67% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BBQ Gives Back (Day 1) | 4 | 14 | 0 | top 78% | Mar 27, 2026 |
More numbers
Contests a season
3
across 4 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
VA
12 of 12 contests
Contests visited
1
1 of them more than once
Opponents faced
141
finished ahead 48 times, behind 234
Longest layoff
1 yrs
Mar 21, 2025 → Mar 27, 2026
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20263 milestones
- 10th tracked contest BBQ Gives Back (ONE MEAT RIBS)
- Career-best single call (Chicken)170.8460 BBQ Gives Back (Day 1)
- Most recent contest BBQ Gives Back (Day 1)
20241 milestone
- Career-best overall score655.3144 BBQ Gives Back (Day 1) (Masters and Backyard)
20234 milestones
- First tracked contest BBQ Gives Back (One Meat Ribs)
- First call BBQ Gives Back (One Meat Ribs)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score649.5548 BBQ Gives Back (Day 1) (Masters and Backyard)
- Peak power rating (1490) BBQ Gives Back (Day 1) (Masters and Backyard)
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +7.8 | BBQ Gives Back (Day 1) | Mar 27, 2026 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -10.4 | BBQ Gives Back (Day 1) (Masters and Backyard) | Mar 21, 2025 |
| -9.9 | BBQ Gives Back (Day 1) (Masters and Backyard) | Mar 24, 2023 |
| -9.1 | BBQ Gives Back (Day 1) (Masters and Backyard) | Mar 22, 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 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33% | top 35% | 92.4% | 92.4% |
| 2025 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 98% | 88.1% | 88.1% |
| 2024 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 87% | 91% | 91% |
| 2023 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33% | top 91% | 90.2% | 90.2% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 2026 | BBQ Gives Back (Day 1) 🏅 Urbanna, VA | 14 / 40 (332.5260) | 8 (170.8460) | 16 (161.6800) | — | — |
| Mar 27, 2026 | BBQ Gives Back (ONE MEAT CHICKEN) Urbanna, VA | — | 11 (170.8344) | — | — | — |
| Mar 27, 2026 | BBQ Gives Back (ONE MEAT RIBS) Urbanna, VA | — | — | 19 (165.1200) | — | — |
| Mar 21, 2025 | BBQ Gives Back (Day 1) (Masters and Backyard) 🏅 Urbanna, VA | 44 / 45 (634.6748) | 43 (155.9660) | 34 (167.9772) | 45 (150.2172) | 40 (160.5144) |
| Mar 21, 2025 | BBQ Gives Back (ONE MEAT CHICKEN) Urbanna, VA | — | 21 (161.6688) | — | — | — |
| Mar 21, 2025 | BBQ Gives Back (ONE MEAT RIBS) Urbanna, VA | — | — | 15 (160.5828) | — | — |
| Mar 22, 2024 | BBQ Gives Back (Day 1) (Masters and Backyard) 🏅 Urbanna, VA | 39 / 45 (655.3144) | 39 (163.3944) | 37 (161.6800) | 36 (163.3828) | 28 (166.8572) |
| Mar 22, 2024 | BBQ Gives Back (One Meat Chicken) 🏅 Urbanna, VA | — | 15 (167.3828) | — | — | — |
| Mar 22, 2024 | BBQ Gives Back (One Meat Ribs) 🏅 Urbanna, VA | — | — | 23 (162.8344) | — | — |
| Mar 24, 2023 | BBQ Gives Back (Day 1) (Masters and Backyard) 🏅 Urbanna, VA | 48 / 53 (649.5548) | 45 (163.9772) | 41 (165.1204) | 51 (153.0628) | 27 (167.3944) |
| Mar 24, 2023 | BBQ Gives Back (One Meat Chicken) Urbanna, VA | — | 22 (167.3828) | — | — | — |
| Mar 24, 2023 | BBQ Gives Back (One Meat Ribs) Urbanna, VA | — | — | 10 (170.2744) | — | — |