The comeback
7 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 7 years, then back at The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival (Oct 7, 2022).
- last seen Oct 9, 2015
- back Oct 7, 2022
FISH BOYS BBQ
FISH BOYS BBQ is a competition barbecue team with 4 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2015 and 2022. Their best overall finish is 9th of 30 at The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival (2022). Also listed in KCBS results as “Fishboy's BBQ”.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1491
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 2
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
Mar 27, 2015
latest Oct 7, 2022 · 7.5 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
25% of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 65%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
25%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 155.49 · weakest Pork Ribs (148.02)
Road miles
171
across 4 mapped stops · furthest 64 mi
Purse competed for
$15K
listed at 1 contest — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 1 state-championship entry
Master avg
302.93 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
148.61 / 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.
By meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.4860 | 155.4860 | 155.49 | top 89% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 148.6060 | 147.4400 | 148.02 | top 61% |
“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.
More numbers
Busiest season
2015
2 contests
Contests a season
1.3
across 3 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
GA
4 of 4 contests
Contests visited
2
a different one every time
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
2 entries · 0 wins · 1 call
Opponents faced
64
finished ahead 21 times, behind 43
Longest layoff
7 yrs
Oct 9, 2015 → Oct 7, 2022
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20223 milestones
- First call The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival
- First overall top-10 The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival
- Most recent contest The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival
20152 milestones
- Career-best overall score302.9260 Fire Ant Festival BBQ Bash
- Career-best single call (Chicken)155.4860 Fire Ant Festival BBQ Bash
20141 milestone
- First tracked contest The Real Squeal: Lyons Barbeque & Music Festival (GBC & SBBQA Qualifier)
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 30% | 41.3% | 41.3% |
| 2015 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 100% | 42.1% | 42.1% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 7, 2022 | The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival 🏅 Lyons, GA | 9 / 30 (148.6060) | — | 9 (148.6060) | — | — |
| Oct 9, 2015 | The Real Squeal (GBC Qualifier) Lyons, GA | — | — | — | — | — |
| Mar 27, 2015 | Fire Ant Festival BBQ Bash Ashburn, GA | 28 / 28 (302.9260) | 25 (155.4860) | 26 (147.4400) | — | — |
| Oct 10, 2014 | The Real Squeal: Lyons Barbeque & Music Festival (GBC & SBBQA Qualifier) Lyons, GA | — | — | — | — | — |