A multi-meat day
1
contest with 2+ category wins
They've won two or more meats on the same day 1 time — the best of them 2 category wins at BBQ Fest Palmares (BACKYARD ONLY) (Nov 15, 2025).
- Pork Ribs 1st
- Pork 1st
Los Pinos
Los Pinos is a competition barbecue team with 5 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2023 and 2025. Their best overall finish is 2nd of 8 at the BBQ Fest Palmares (BACKYARD ONLY) (2025), and they have finished Reserve Grand Champion once.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1519
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 3
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
Apr 15, 2023
latest Nov 15, 2025 · 2.6 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
1 reserve
Category wins
2
3 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
40% of 5 contests
Best top-10 run
2
straight overall top-10s, still running
Avg finish
top 36%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 171.86 · weakest Brisket (152.27)
Road miles
80
across 5 mapped stops
Schedule strength
8%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1511)
Master avg
655.90 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
343.99 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 0 GCs
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.
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Los Pinos has 3 rated contests, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 83 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#2,532 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1519
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#2,535 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1526
Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2023.
⚔ Compare careers#2,525 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1519
Level with Los Pinos on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#2,536 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1519
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#2,517 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 100%
- Peak
- 1522
Their last contest in the data was back in 2022, 3 years before Los Pinos's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#2,534 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1519
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 7 years before Los Pinos's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careersBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 174.2628 | 165.6800 | 169.53 | top 43% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 175.4628 | 170.2628 | 171.86 | top 24% |
| Pork | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 174.8572 | 159.9544 | 166.83 | top 42% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.6912 | 146.8456 | 152.27 | top 70% |
“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.
By field size and state
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 25% |
| Medium (20–39) | 2 | 0 | top 42% |
More numbers
Busiest season
2025
3 contests
Contests a season
1.7
across 3 seasons in the data
Contests visited
3
a different one every time
Opponents faced
43
finished ahead 35 times, behind 20
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20257 milestones
- First category win (Pork Ribs) BBQ Fest Palmares (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall podium BBQ Fest Palmares (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First Reserve Championship BBQ Fest Palmares (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First multi-meat day BBQ Fest Palmares (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)175.4628 BBQ Fest Palmares (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Peak power rating (1519) BBQ Fest Palmares (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Most recent contest BBQ Fest Palmares (BACKYARD ONLY)
20241 milestone
- First overall top-10 BBQ Fest Costa Rica 2024
20234 milestones
- First tracked contest BBQ Fest Costa Rica 2023
- First call BBQ Fest Costa Rica 2023
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score662.1712 BBQ Fest Costa Rica 2023
- Career-best overall score662.1712 BBQ Fest Costa Rica 2023
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +11 | BBQ Fest Palmares (BACKYARD ONLY) | Nov 15, 2025 |
| +5.2 | BBQ Fest Costa Rica 2024 | Apr 6, 2024 |
| +2.7 | BBQ Fest Costa Rica 2023 | Apr 15, 2023 |
Scores over time (% of a perfect score — tap a meat to add it)
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 100% | top 25% | 95.6% | 95.6% |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 38% | 90.2% | 90.2% |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 46% | 92% | 92% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 15, 2025 | BBQ Fest Palmares (BACKYARD ONLY) Palmares | 2 / 8 (343.9884) | 5 (168.5256) | 1 (175.4628) | 1 (174.8572) | — |
| Jan 24, 2025 | Jaco Beach BBQ Challenge (ONE MEAT CHICKEN) Play Jaco | — | 7 (169.6684) | — | — | — |
| Jan 24, 2025 | Jaco Beach BBQ Challenge (ONE MEAT RIBS) Play Jaco | — | — | 5 (170.2972) | — | — |
| Apr 6, 2024 | BBQ Fest Costa Rica 2024 Heredia | 9 / 24 (649.6228) | 8 (165.6800) | 3 (171.4172) | 10 (165.6800) | 19 (146.8456) |
| Apr 15, 2023 | BBQ Fest Costa Rica 2023 San Jose | 12 / 26 (662.1712) | 5 (174.2628) | 8 (170.2628) | 19 (159.9544) | 16 (157.6912) |