Riding a hot streak
4
straight overall top-10s
Currently on a 4-contest overall top-10 run.
- career best 4
Sassy Sow BBQ
Sassy Sow BBQ is a competition barbecue team with 7 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2024 and 2025. Their best overall finish is 2nd of 9 at the Red White & Q (BACKYARD ONLY) (2024), and they have finished Reserve Grand Champion twice. They are ranked #1579 of 6,477 teams in the KCBS power rankings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1559
peak 1559 · rated over 7 contests
Contests
7
in the data
First seen
Apr 5, 2024
latest Sep 26, 2025 · 1.5 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
2 reserve
Category wins
1
5 podiums
Overall top-10s
6
86% of 7 contests
Best top-10 run
4
straight overall top-10s, still running
Avg finish
top 30%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
1 🔥
Current form
341.68 ▲
last 5 Backyard vs avg 340.62 (+1.05)
Walk rate
71%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±7.21
spread of their Backyard overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 170.92 · weakest Brisket (163.97)
Road miles
723
across 7 mapped stops · furthest 128 mi
Schedule strength
69%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1588)
Purse competed for
$70K
listed at 7 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 6 state-championship entries
Master avg
673.03 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
340.62 / 360
6 Backyard contests · 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.
Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to Sassy Sow BBQ, each with one reason worth a look.
41 rated teams sit within a point of this rating, so a place on this list means the numbers match — no more than that.
#1,585 of the rated field
- Contests
- 8
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 38%
- Peak
- 1564
Their last contest in the data was back in 2016, 9 years before Sassy Sow BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#1,582 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 100%
- Peak
- 1559
Careers of much the same size, 6 contests to 7, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#1,583 of the rated field
- Contests
- 9
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 44%
- Peak
- 1559
This is the highest they've ever been rated, 9 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Compare careers#1,576 of the rated field
- Contests
- 9
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 44%
- Peak
- 1560
They were already cooking in 2018, 6 years before Sassy Sow BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Compare careers#1,575 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 100%
- Peak
- 1560
5 straight overall top-10s says this rating is a moving target.
⚔ Compare careers#1,584 of the rated field
- Contests
- 10
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1559
Level with Sassy Sow BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careersFamiliar foes (most-met opponents in overall standings — one meeting per contest)
| Opponent | Meetings | Ahead | Behind | Win rate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SUPER SWINE | 6 | 4 | 2 | 67% | ⚔ compare |
| BULL IN THE RING | 5 | 3 | 2 | 60% | ⚔ compare |
| HOLLOW Q | 5 | 3 | 2 | 60% | ⚔ compare |
| DOUBLE BARREL BBQ - OK | 5 | 3 | 2 | 60% | ⚔ compare |
| CEO BBQ | 5 | 2 | 1 | 40% | ⚔ compare |
By meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 7 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 180 🔥 | 161.6800 | 170.92 | top 28% |
| Pork Ribs | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 173.1200 | 163.3828 | 169.53 | top 35% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.6684 | 169.6684 | 169.67 | top 64% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.9656 | 163.9656 | 163.97 | top 84% |
“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) | 2 | 0 | top 16% |
| Medium (20–39) | 5 | 0 | top 36% |
Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smokin on the Route | 2 | 3 | 0 | top 20% | Sep 26, 2025 |
More numbers
Busiest season
2024
5 contests
Contests a season
3.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
OK
6 of 7 contests · 2 states in all
Contests visited
6
1 of them more than once
Opponents faced
138
finished ahead 141 times, behind 67
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20252 milestones
- Peak power rating (1559) Smokin on the Route
- Most recent contest Smokin on the Route
20249 milestones
- First tracked contest Lake Views & BBQ
- First call Lake Views & BBQ
- First overall top-10 Lake Views & BBQ
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score335.3600 Lake Views & BBQ
- Career-best overall score673.0284 Sugar Creek Casino's Sweet & Smoky BBQ Competition
- First overall podium Grillstock BBQ & Music Festival
- First Reserve Championship Grillstock BBQ & Music Festival
- First category win (Chicken) Red White & Q (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First perfect 180 (Chicken) Red White & Q (BACKYARD ONLY)
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +16.8 | Grillstock BBQ & Music Festival | Sep 13, 2024 |
| +13.9 | Smokin on the Route | Sep 26, 2025 |
| +12 | Red White & Q (BACKYARD ONLY) | Oct 4, 2024 |
| +7.7 | Smokin on the Route | Jul 26, 2024 |
| +7.6 | Smoke on the Plains BBQ & Music Fest | Jun 13, 2025 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -4.2 | Sugar Creek Casino's Sweet & Smoky BBQ Competition | Aug 16, 2024 |
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 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 50% | top 20% | 95.7% | 94.3% |
| 2024 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 80% | top 35% | 97.6% | 94.5% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 26, 2025 | Smokin on the Route 🏅 Miami, OK | 3 / 20 (344.5372) | 4 (171.4172) | 2 (173.1200) | — | — |
| Jun 13, 2025 | Smoke on the Plains BBQ & Music Fest 🏅 Derby, KS | 9 / 36 (334.7656) | 12 (168.5372) | 11 (166.2284) | — | — |
| Oct 4, 2024 | Red White & Q (BACKYARD ONLY) Henryetta, OK | 2 / 9 (351.4400) | 1 (180) | 3 (171.4400) | — | — |
| Sep 13, 2024 | Grillstock BBQ & Music Festival 🏅 Moore, OK | 2 / 19 (346.2628) | 2 (173.1428) | 3 (173.1200) | — | — |
| Aug 16, 2024 | Sugar Creek Casino's Sweet & Smoky BBQ Competition 🏅 Hinton, OK | 19 / 25 (673.0284) | 18 (169.6800) | 20 (169.7144) | 16 (169.6684) | 21 (163.9656) |
| Jul 26, 2024 | Smokin on the Route 🏅 Miami, OK | 7 / 27 (331.3712) | 7 (161.6800) | 6 (169.6912) | — | — |
| Apr 5, 2024 | Lake Views & BBQ 🏅 Wagoner, OK | 8 / 21 (335.3600) | 5 (171.9772) | 11 (163.3828) | — | — |