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
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1525
peak 1525 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2025-03-07
latest 2026-03-06
Best ToY finish
#220
Backyard 2026
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 18%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Top-10 streak
2
and counting
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 176.85 · weakest Chicken (168.26)
Road miles
0
mi across 2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$24K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
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.
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.
High-water mark
345.1316
career-best overall
95.9% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 345.1316 at Sip & Swine BBQ Festival — 95.9% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2025-03-07
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.
Apalachee High School Bar-B-Cats 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 75 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.
#2325 of the rated field
- Contests
- 13
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 23%
- Peak
- 1551
1–1 in 2 shared contests (50% to Apalachee High School Bar-B-Cats)
2 contests in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Apalachee High School Bar-B-Cats has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head#2317 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1531
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2322 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1525
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 5 years before Apalachee High School Bar-B-Cats's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2321 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1526
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2013, 12 years before Apalachee High School Bar-B-Cats's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#2316 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1526
No shared contest yet.
Level with Apalachee High School Bar-B-Cats on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2330 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1530
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2016, 10 years before Apalachee High School Bar-B-Cats'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 | 169.1316 | 167.3828 | 168.26 | top 34% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 177.7028 | 176.0000 | 176.85 | top 9% |
| Pork | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 177.7028 | 167.3944 | 172.55 | top 13% |
| Brisket | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
“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.
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sip & Swine BBQ Festival | 2 | 6 | 0 | top 18% | 2026-03-06 |
The story so far (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1 yrs
2025-03-07 → 2026-03-06
Busiest season
2026
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
GA
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
1
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 176.85 · weakest Chicken (168.26)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 2 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
100%
2 of 2 contests
Best top-10 run
2
straight contests — and still running
Backyard average
345.11
out of 360 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
110
118–28 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
0
2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$24,200
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Power rating
1525
peak 1525 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2025
- 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
- 2026
- Career-best single call (Pork)177.7028 Sip & Swine BBQ Festival
- Most recent contest Sip & Swine BBQ Festival
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)
Team of the Year rank by season
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 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 23% | 95.9% | 95.9% |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 13% | 95.9% | 95.9% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-06 | Sip & Swine BBQ Festival 🏅 Lawrenceville, GA | 10 / 44 (345.0856) | 18 (167.3828) | 4 (177.7028) | 3 (177.7028) | — |
| 2025-03-07 | Sip & Swine BBQ Festival 🏅 Lawrenceville, GA | 6 / 45 (345.1316) | 12 (169.1316) | 4 (176.0000) | 9 (167.3944) | — |
Career map (orange GC · green top-10 · grey the rest — tap a pin)
Team of the Year standings (rank per category by season — year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 ↗ | Backyard | #220 (133 pts) | #278 (93 pts) | #185 (208 pts) | — | — |
| 2025 ↗ | Backyard | #240 (168 pts) | #302 (118 pts) | #233 (203 pts) | — | — |