High-water mark
696.5256
career-best overall
96.7% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 696.5256 at Raider Red Meats BBQ & Ribeye Championships — 96.7% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2024-08-16
Pit Pirates BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1514
peak 1514 · rated over 3 contests ⓘ
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
2024-08-16
latest 2025-11-05
Best ToY finish
#683
Master 2025
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
1
2 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 5 contests
Avg finish
top 51%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
682.05
last 4 Master vs avg 682.05 (+0.00)
Walk rate
40%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±8.76
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 174.56 · weakest Brisket (167.11)
Road miles
944
mi across 5 mapped stops · furthest 729 mi
Schedule strength
58%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1574)
Purse competed for
$141K
listed at 5 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
682.05 / 720
4 Master contests · 0 GCs
Storylines (4 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.
A tough matchup
4–0
behind in the head-to-head
Rollin' Smoke BBQ Texas ahead in 100% of their meetings
Rollin' Smoke BBQ Texas has come out ahead in 4 of their 4 shared contests.
A strong matchup
3–0
ahead in the head-to-head
Ahead in 100% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of POPPA PIG AND PORKCHOP in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
Announced themselves early
5th
at their very first contest
Finished 5 of 41 at their very first tracked contest, Raider Red Meats BBQ & Ribeye Championships (2024-08-16).
- 2024-08-16
- 41-team field
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.
Pit Pirates BBQ has 3 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 105 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.
#2688 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1513
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#2681 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1514
No shared contest yet.
Level with Pit Pirates BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2692 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 14%
- Peak
- 1513
No shared contest yet.
Their rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 7 contests, alongside a 14% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-head#2672 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1514
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2020, 5 years before Pit Pirates BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2698 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1513
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2015, 9 years before Pit Pirates BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#2680 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1514
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 8 years before Pit Pirates BBQ'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 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 176.5944 | 158.2284 | 169.84 | top 53% |
| Pork Ribs | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 178.8572 | 165.0972 | 172.10 | top 42% |
| Pork | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 178.8572 | 171.4056 | 174.56 | top 26% |
| Brisket | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 172.5600 | 157.6688 | 167.11 | top 56% |
“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 state / province
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| KS | 2 | 0 | top 65% |
| NM | 1 | 0 | top 63% |
| TX | 1 | 0 | top 12% |
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 63% |
| Large (40+) | 3 | 0 | top 47% |
The story so far (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1.2 yrs
2024-08-16 → 2025-11-05
Busiest season
2025
4 contests
Contests a season
2.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
KS
3 of 5 contests · 3 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
4
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
5 entries · 1 win · 2 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 174.56 · weakest Brisket (167.11)
Walk rate
40%
a top-10 call in 2 of 5 contests
Overall top-10 rate
20%
1 of 5 contests
Master average
682.05
out of 720 · 4 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
451
256–370 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
944
5 mapped stops · furthest 729 mi
Schedule strength
1574
average field rating faced — tougher than 58% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$140,525
listed at 5 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Power rating
1514
peak 1514 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2024
- First tracked contest Raider Red Meats BBQ & Ribeye Championships
- First call Raider Red Meats BBQ & Ribeye Championships
- First category win (Pork Ribs) Raider Red Meats BBQ & Ribeye Championships
- First overall top-10 Raider Red Meats BBQ & Ribeye Championships
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score696.5256 Raider Red Meats BBQ & Ribeye Championships
- Career-best overall score696.5256 Raider Red Meats BBQ & Ribeye Championships
- Peak power rating (1514) Raider Red Meats BBQ & Ribeye Championships
- 2025
- Career-best single call (Pork)178.8572 The All American Comeback BBQ, Bourbon, & Bands
- Most recent contest American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Sides
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +13.9 | Raider Red Meats BBQ & Ribeye Championships | 2024-08-16 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -0.2 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest | 2025-11-05 |
| -0.1 | The All American Comeback BBQ, Bourbon, & Bands | 2025-05-02 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25% | top 64% | 94.4% | 94.1% |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 100% | top 12% | 96.7% | 96.7% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-05 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Sides Kansas City, KS | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2025-11-05 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest unrated Kansas City, KS | 111 / 158 (678.7316) | 70 (173.1316) | 140 (165.0972) | 68 (171.9656) | 101 (168.5372) |
| 2025-11-05 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 239 / 401 (673.0168) | 362 (158.2284) | 274 (166.2284) | 56 (176.0000) | 99 (172.5600) |
| 2025-05-02 | The All American Comeback BBQ, Bourbon, & Bands Ruidoso Downs, NM | 19 / 30 (679.9320) | 20 (171.4172) | 14 (171.9888) | 4 (178.8572) | 30 (157.6688) |
| 2024-08-16 | Raider Red Meats BBQ & Ribeye Championships 🏅 Lubbock, TX | 5 / 41 (696.5256) | 4 (176.5944) | 1 (178.3200) | 13 (171.4056) | 15 (169.6684) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 ↗ | Master | #683 (205 pts) | #769 (200 pts) | #763 (230 pts) | #557 (325 pts) | #793 (175 pts) |