The comeback
7.4 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 7.4 years, then back at American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Sides (2025-11-05).
- last seen 2018-06-01
- back 2025-11-05
Dad Bod BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1482
peak 1482 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
2017-06-02
latest 2025-11-05
Best ToY finish
#2212
Master 2017
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 86%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 155.41 · weakest Pork (149.69)
Road miles
711
mi across 4 mapped stops · furthest 351 mi
Purse competed for
$68K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Master avg
614.22 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs
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.
Dad Bod BBQ 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 113 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.
#4043 of the rated field
- Contests
- 14
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1482
0–1 in 1 shared contest (0% to Dad Bod BBQ)
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Dad Bod BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head#4015 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1482
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 6 contests to 4.
⚔ Head-to-head#4029 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1482
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 6 years after Dad Bod BBQ did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-head#4010 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1483
No shared contest yet.
Level with Dad Bod BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#4019 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1482
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#4046 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1482
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2022, 3 years before Dad Bod 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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.8228 | 146.3084 | 154.57 | top 67% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.6800 | 149.1316 | 155.41 | top 82% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.4056 | 143.9656 | 149.69 | top 93% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.1316 | 152.0000 | 154.57 | top 74% |
“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.
The story so far (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
8.4 yrs
2017-06-02 → 2025-11-05
Busiest season
2025
2 contests
Contests a season
1.3
across 3 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
KS
2 of 4 contests · 3 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 155.41 · weakest Pork (149.69)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 4 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 4 contests
Master average
614.22
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
452
37–423 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
711
4 mapped stops · furthest 351 mi
Purse competed for
$68,035
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
7.4 yrs
2018-06-01 → 2025-11-05
Power rating
1482
peak 1482 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2017
- First tracked contest *Kelley Wilson BBQ
- Career-best single call (Chicken)162.8228 *Kelley Wilson BBQ
- 2025
- Career-best overall score620.5256 American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest
- Most recent contest American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest
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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 94% | 86.2% | 86.2% |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 77% | 84.4% | 84.4% |
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 - Open Contest 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 378 / 401 (620.5256) | 396 (146.3084) | 328 (161.6800) | 373 (155.4056) | 351 (157.1316) |
| 2025-11-05 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Sides Kansas City, KS | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2018-06-01 | Smokin In Steele Owatonna, MN | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2017-06-02 | *Kelley Wilson BBQ Kansas City, MO | 47 / 61 (607.9200) | 22 (162.8228) | 50 (149.1316) | 57 (143.9656) | 37 (152.0000) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 ↗ | Master | #2212 (60 pts) | #2178 (75 pts) | #2304 (60 pts) | #2260 (60 pts) | #2266 (60 pts) |