DrumQ BBQ C.R.

DrumQ BBQ C.R. is a competition barbecue team with 2 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record in 2025. Their best overall finish is 2nd of 16 at the Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2025 (2025), and they have finished Reserve Grand Champion once.

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At a glance (the record in numbers)

Rating

1520

Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 2

Contests

in the data

First seen

Jun 27, 2025

latest Nov 15, 2025

Grand champs

1 reserve

Category wins

3 podiums

Overall top-10s

of 2 contests

Best top-10 run

straight overall top-10s, still running

Avg finish

top 25%

overall standings

Best overall

679.4972 / 720

Master · Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2025

Walk rate

100%

contests with a top-10 call

Best single call

178.8572

Chicken · BBQ Fest Palmares (BACKYARD ONLY)

Strongest meat

Chicken

avg 177.43 · weakest Pork (163.16)

Road miles

across 2 mapped stops · furthest 68 mi

Master avg

679.50 / 720

1 Master contest · 0 GCs

Backyard avg

339.41 / 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.

Storylines (4 found in their record)

Each card leads with the number behind the story, straight from their results.

The heartbreaker

2.2516 points from the title

Came within 2.2516 points of the Grand Championship at Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2025 (Jun 27, 2025).

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 Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2025 (Jun 27, 2025).

Chicken 1st
Brisket 1st

High-water mark

679.4972 career-best overall

94.4% of a perfect 720

Their best day on record: 679.4972 at Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2025 — 94.4% of a perfect 720.

Master
Jun 27, 2025

Announced themselves early

2nd at their very first contest

Finished 2 of 16 at their very first tracked contest, Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2025 (Jun 27, 2025).

Jun 27, 2025
16-team field

By meat

Category	Entries	Calls	Wins	Podiums	Best	Worst	Average	Avg finish
Chicken	2	2	2	2	178.8572	176	177.43	top 9%
Pork Ribs	2	2	0	0	170.8572	160.5488	165.70	top 59%
Pork	2	1	0	0	168	158.3200	163.16	top 88%
Brisket	1	1	1	1	174.3200	174.3200	174.32	top 6%

“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)

202511 milestones

Jun 27 First tracked contest Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2025
Jun 27 First call Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2025
Jun 27 First category win (Chicken) Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2025
Jun 27 First overall top-10 Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2025
Jun 27 First overall podium Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2025
Jun 27 First Reserve Championship Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2025
Jun 27 First multi-meat day Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2025
Jun 27 First overall past 90% of a perfect score679.4972 Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2025
Jun 27 Career-best overall score679.4972 Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2025
Nov 15 Career-best single call (Chicken)178.8572 BBQ Fest Palmares (BACKYARD ONLY)
Nov 15 Most recent contest BBQ Fest Palmares (BACKYARD ONLY)

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	3 / 8 (339.4060)	1 (178.8572)	7 (160.5488)	6 (168)	—
Jun 27, 2025	Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2025 Perez Zeldon, SJ	2 / 16 (679.4972)	1 (176)	5 (170.8572)	16 (158.3200)	1 (174.3200)