#3246 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1508
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headSidetrack BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1498
peak 1508 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2023-10-06
latest 2026-03-27
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 58%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 169.71 · weakest Brisket (153.67)
Road miles
242
mi across 2 mapped stops · furthest 242 mi
Purse competed for
$13K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
661.55 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
482.81 / 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.
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.
Sidetrack 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 126 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.
#3261 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1499
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2022, 4 years before Sidetrack BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3245 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2017, 6 years before Sidetrack BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3285 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
Level with Sidetrack BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3288 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1509
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 9 years before Sidetrack BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3287 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1518
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 9 years before Sidetrack 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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 175.4172 | 164.0000 | 169.71 | top 29% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 172.0000 | 166.2284 | 169.11 | top 48% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2400 | 146.8116 | 156.53 | top 69% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 153.6684 | 153.6684 | 153.67 | top 92% |
“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.
The story so far (17 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
2.5 yrs
2023-10-06 → 2026-03-27
Busiest season
2026
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
MO
1 of 2 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 2 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 169.71 · weakest Brisket (153.67)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 2 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
50%
1 of 2 contests
Master average
661.55
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Backyard average
482.81
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
76
26–51 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
242
2 mapped stops · furthest 242 mi
Purse competed for
$13,100
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
2.5 yrs
2023-10-06 → 2026-03-27
Power rating
1498
peak 1508 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2023
- First tracked contest Smokin' for Garrett
- First call Smokin' for Garrett
- First overall top-10 Smokin' for Garrett
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score482.8116 Smokin' for Garrett
- 2026
- Career-best overall score661.5540 Kickin' It Route 66 Barbecue Challenge
- Career-best single call (Chicken)175.4172 Kickin' It Route 66 Barbecue Challenge
- Most recent contest Kickin' It Route 66 Barbecue Challenge
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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 88% | 91.9% | 91.9% |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 27% | 134.1% | 134.1% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-27 | Kickin' It Route 66 Barbecue Challenge 🏅 St. Robert, MO | 23 / 26 (661.5540) | 8 (175.4172) | 22 (166.2284) | 25 (166.2400) | 24 (153.6684) |
| 2023-10-06 | Smokin' for Garrett 🏅 Mt. Carmel, IL | 7 / 26 (482.8116) | 7 (164.0000) | 3 (172.0000) | 11 (146.8116) | — |