A tough matchup
LAKE HOUSE BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings
LAKE HOUSE BBQ has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
LAKE HOUSE BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings
LAKE HOUSE BBQ has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
Ahead in 100% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of Elkhorn BBQ in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
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.
JD's Q 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 140 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.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 12 years after JD's Q did, first appearing in 2025.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with JD's Q on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.2744 | 155.4400 | 162.48 | top 64% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.1084 | 161.1084 | 163.60 | top 60% |
| Pork | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.7028 | 161.7028 | 163.04 | top 74% |
| Brisket | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 174.2972 | 150.8570 | 162.86 | top 48% |
“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.
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BBQ, Blues & Brews on the Bay | 3 | 14 | 0 | top 62% | 2015-05-22 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +3.1 | BBQ, Blues & Brews on the Bay | 2014-05-24 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -9.4 | BBQ, Blues & Brews on the Bay | 2013-05-25 |
| -1.8 | BBQ, Blues & Brews on the Bay | 2015-05-22 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 61% | 91.2% | 91.2% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 45% | 91.7% | 91.7% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 81% | 88.7% | 88.7% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-05-22 | BBQ, Blues & Brews on the Bay North Bend, OR | 23 / 38 (656.5484) | 34 (155.4400) | 24 (161.1084) | 23 (165.7028) | 2 (174.2972) |
| 2014-05-24 | BBQ, Blues & Brews on the Bay North Bend, OR | 14 / 31 (660.5028) | 12 (170.2744) | 17 (165.1084) | 23 (161.7028) | 16 (163.4172) |
| 2013-05-25 | BBQ, Blues & Brews on the Bay North Bend, OR | 25 / 31 (638.8566) | 20 (161.7140) | 19 (164.5714) | 27 (161.7142) | 27 (150.8570) |