The one to beat
2×
one call ahead of them
Ribs For Your Pleasure has finished one call ahead of Low N Slow BBQ Bros 2 times — their closest competition in the data.
Low N Slow BBQ Bros
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1490
peak 1490 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2026-08-28
latest 2026-08-28
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 77%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 164.56 · weakest Pork Ribs (158.83)
Road miles
0
mi across 2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$5K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
Backyard avg
323.39 / 360
2 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
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.
Storylines (1 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.
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.
Low N Slow BBQ Bros 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 160 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.
#3634 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 14%
- Peak
- 1511
1–1 in 2 shared contests (50% to Low N Slow BBQ Bros)
2 contests in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Low N Slow BBQ Bros has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head#3666 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3651 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2017, 9 years before Low N Slow BBQ Bros's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3654 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1503
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2023, 3 years before Low N Slow BBQ Bros's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3661 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
Level with Low N Slow BBQ Bros on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3641 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1490
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 7 years before Low N Slow BBQ Bros'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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 173.7144 | 155.4056 | 164.56 | top 63% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.1200 | 152.5372 | 158.83 | top 80% |
| Pork | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smokin Ribs for the Kids (BACKYARD ONLY) (Contest 2) | 2 | 17 | 0 | top 77% | 2026-08-28 |
The story so far (13 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0 yrs
2026-08-28 → 2026-08-28
Busiest season
2026
2 contests
Cooks most in
IL
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
1
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 164.56 · weakest Pork Ribs (158.83)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 1 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 2 contests
Backyard average
323.39
out of 360 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
24
11–36 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
0
2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$5,400
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
Power rating
1490
peak 1490 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2026
- First tracked contest Smokin Ribs for the Kids (BACKYARD ONLY) (Contest 1)
- First call Smokin Ribs for the Kids (BACKYARD ONLY) (Contest 1)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score326.2516 Smokin Ribs for the Kids (BACKYARD ONLY) (Contest 1)
- Career-best overall score326.2516 Smokin Ribs for the Kids (BACKYARD ONLY) (Contest 1)
- Career-best single call (Chicken)173.7144 Smokin Ribs for the Kids (BACKYARD ONLY) (Contest 1)
- Most recent contest Smokin Ribs for the Kids (BACKYARD ONLY) (Contest 2)
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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 77% | 90.6% | 89.8% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-28 | Smokin Ribs for the Kids (BACKYARD ONLY) (Contest 2) Cherry Valley, IL | 21 / 25 (320.5256) | 22 (155.4056) | 18 (165.1200) | — | — |
| 2026-08-28 | Smokin Ribs for the Kids (BACKYARD ONLY) (Contest 1) Cherry Valley, IL | 17 / 24 (326.2516) | 9 (173.7144) | 21 (152.5372) | — | — |