Smoke & Bark BBQ Team
Smoke & Bark BBQ Team 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 8 at the BBQ Fest Palmares (BACKYARD ONLY) (2025). They finished #991 in the 2026 Master Series Team of the Year standings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
Contests
First seen
Overall top-10s
Avg finish
Walk rate
Strongest meat
Road miles
Master avg
Backyard avg
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. Still inside their first twelve months: see what a first season usually looks like.
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 ↗ | Master | #991 (88 pts) | #1007 (108 pts) | #1132 (88 pts) | #1000 (98 pts) | #1007 (98 pts) |
By meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 165.7028 | 164.5256 | 165.11 | top 77% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 163.4400 | 158.8688 | 161.15 | top 82% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 168 | 161.6800 | 164.84 | top 83% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.4172 | 159.4172 | 159.42 | top 78% |
“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.
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20262 milestones
- Career-best overall score644.4916 BBQ Fest Costa Rica
- Most recent contest BBQ Fest Costa Rica
20255 milestones
- First tracked contest BBQ Fest Palmares (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First call BBQ Fest Palmares (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall top-10 BBQ Fest Palmares (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score329.1428 BBQ Fest Palmares (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best single call (Pork)168 BBQ Fest Palmares (BACKYARD ONLY)
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 21, 2026 | BBQ Fest Costa Rica Alajuela | 16 / 18 (644.4916) | 12 (164.5256) | 16 (158.8688) | 14 (161.6800) | 14 (159.4172) |
| Nov 15, 2025 | BBQ Fest Palmares (BACKYARD ONLY) Palmares | 6 / 8 (329.1428) | 7 (165.7028) | 6 (163.4400) | 7 (168) | — |