Happy hunting ground
Top 18%
average finish here
Sip & Swine BBQ Festival is their spot: an average finish in the top 18% across 2 visits.
- 2 visits
- best finish 6th
- average top 18%
Apalachee High School Bar-B-Cats
Apalachee High School Bar-B-Cats is a competition barbecue team with 2 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2025 and 2026. Their best overall finish is 6th of 45 at the Sip & Swine BBQ Festival (2025). They finished #240 in the 2025 Backyard Series Team of the Year standings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1525
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 2
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
Mar 7, 2025
latest Mar 6, 2026 · 1 year on the trail
Overall top-10s
2
of 2 contests
Best top-10 run
2
straight overall top-10s, still running
Avg finish
top 18%
overall standings
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 176.85 · weakest Pork (167.39)
Road miles
0
across 2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$24K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
Backyard avg
345.11 / 360
2 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
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)
By meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.1316 | 167.3828 | 168.26 | top 34% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 177.7028 | 176 | 176.85 | top 9% |
| Pork | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 167.3944 | 167.3944 | 167.39 | top 20% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sip & Swine BBQ Festival | 2 | 6 | 0 | top 18% | Mar 6, 2026 |
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20262 milestones
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)177.7028 Sip & Swine BBQ Festival
- Most recent contest Sip & Swine BBQ Festival
20255 milestones
- First tracked contest Sip & Swine BBQ Festival
- First call Sip & Swine BBQ Festival
- First overall top-10 Sip & Swine BBQ Festival
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score345.1316 Sip & Swine BBQ Festival
- Career-best overall score345.1316 Sip & Swine BBQ Festival
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 6, 2026 | Sip & Swine BBQ Festival 🏅 Lawrenceville, GA | 10 / 44 (345.0856) | 18 (167.3828) | 4 (177.7028) | — | — |
| Mar 7, 2025 | Sip & Swine BBQ Festival 🏅 Lawrenceville, GA | 6 / 45 (345.1316) | 12 (169.1316) | 4 (176) | 9 (167.3944) | — |