High-water mark
675.9084
career-best overall
93.9% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 675.9084 at BBQ Festival Vanamoisa, Estonia — 93.9% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- Aug 16, 2024
Sleeping Beauties of BBQ
Sleeping Beauties of BBQ is a competition barbecue team with 7 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2019 and 2025. Their best overall finish is 7th of 18 at the BBQ Festival 2019 (2019). They are ranked #5135 of 6,476 teams in the KCBS power rankings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1460
peak 1505 · rated over 7 contests
Contests
7
in the data
First seen
Aug 16, 2019
latest Aug 15, 2025 · 6 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
5
71% of 7 contests
Best top-10 run
3
straight overall top-10s
Avg finish
top 75%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
638.21 ▼
last 5 Master vs avg 641.24 (-3.03)
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±21.48
spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 162.93 · weakest Brisket (157.35)
Road miles
26
across 7 mapped stops
Schedule strength
16%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1523)
Master avg
641.24 / 720
7 Master contests · 0 GCs
Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 ↗ | Master | #1006 (101 pts) | #850 (166 pts) | #1099 (116 pts) | #918 (126 pts) | #1061 (96 pts) |
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to Sleeping Beauties of BBQ, each with one reason worth a look.
126 rated teams sit within a point of this rating, so a place on this list means the numbers match — no more than that.
#5,152 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 14%
- Peak
- 1459
Careers of much the same size, 7 contests to 7, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#5,149 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
They've been 1502 at their best, 43 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Compare careers#5,136 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 14%
- Peak
- 1460
Their last contest in the data was back in 2022, 3 years before Sleeping Beauties of BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#5,117 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1460
Level with Sleeping Beauties of BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#5,113 of the rated field
- Contests
- 8
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1460
They turned up 5 years after Sleeping Beauties of BBQ did, first appearing in 2024.
⚔ Compare careers#5,126 of the rated field
- Contests
- 8
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1460
This is the highest they've ever been rated, 8 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Compare careersFamiliar foes (most-met opponents in overall standings — one meeting per contest)
| Opponent | Meetings | Ahead | Behind | Win rate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Piiripealsed | 7 | 2 | 5 | 29% | ⚔ compare |
| BBQ Symphony | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| Smoked Pioneers BBQ Team | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| Insomnia BBQ Team | 6 | 1 | 5 | 17% | ⚔ compare |
| Dreamfire BBQ Team | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
By meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 174.2972 | 149.1316 | 162.93 | top 58% |
| Pork Ribs | 7 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 168.5600 | 155.3828 | 160.39 | top 74% |
| Pork | 7 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 170.8228 | 144.5828 | 160.57 | top 71% |
| Brisket | 7 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 167.9656 | 148.5828 | 157.35 | 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.
Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BBQ Festival Vanamoisa, Estonia | 2 | 10 | 0 | top 86% | Aug 15, 2025 |
| BBQ Festival | 2 | 9 | 0 | top 85% | Aug 19, 2022 |
More numbers
Contests a season
1
across 7 seasons in the data
Contests visited
5
2 of them more than once
Opponents faced
45
finished ahead 27 times, behind 62
Longest layoff
1 yrs
Aug 16, 2019 → Aug 21, 2020
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20251 milestone
- Most recent contest BBQ Festival Vanamoisa, Estonia
20242 milestones
- Career-best overall score675.9084 BBQ Festival Vanamoisa, Estonia
- Career-best single call (Chicken)174.2972 BBQ Festival Vanamoisa, Estonia
20195 milestones
- First tracked contest BBQ Festival 2019
- First call BBQ Festival 2019
- First overall top-10 BBQ Festival 2019
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score665.7372 BBQ Festival 2019
- Peak power rating (1505) BBQ Festival 2019
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +4.9 | BBQ Festival 2019 | Aug 16, 2019 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -14.1 | BBQ Festival | Aug 19, 2022 |
| -10.8 | BBQ Festival 2020 | Aug 21, 2020 |
| -9 | BBQ Festival Vanamoisa, Estonia | Aug 15, 2025 |
| -6.4 | BBQ Festival Vanamoisa, Estonia | Aug 16, 2024 |
| -4.6 | BBQ Festival 2021 | Aug 20, 2021 |
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 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 91% | 88.2% | 88.2% |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 81% | 93.9% | 93.9% |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 60% | 89.9% | 89.9% |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 100% | 86.3% | 86.3% |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 69% | 85% | 85% |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 85% | 87.8% | 87.8% |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 39% | 92.5% | 92.5% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 15, 2025 | BBQ Festival Vanamoisa, Estonia Saue | 10 / 11 (634.7656) | 10 (149.1316) | 9 (162.2628) | 7 (170.2856) | 10 (153.0856) |
| Aug 16, 2024 | BBQ Festival Vanamoisa, Estonia Saue Parish | 13 / 16 (675.9084) | 5 (174.2972) | 10 (168.5600) | 9 (170.8228) | 14 (162.2284) |
| Aug 18, 2023 | BBQ Festival Vanamoisa Saue Parish | 9 / 15 (647.3252) | 7 (166.2628) | 13 (155.3828) | 10 (157.7140) | 5 (167.9656) |
| Aug 19, 2022 | BBQ Festival Saue Parish | 10 / 10 (621.1308) | 7 (160.0112) | 10 (158.8340) | 10 (153.7028) | 10 (148.5828) |
| Aug 20, 2021 | BBQ Festival 2021 Saue Parish | 9 / 13 (611.9424) | 8 (158.8456) | 8 (158.8684) | 12 (144.5828) | 9 (149.6456) |
| Aug 21, 2020 | BBQ Festival 2020 Saue Parish | 11 / 13 (631.8968) | 10 (162.8456) | 8 (156.5600) | 11 (158.2856) | 11 (154.2056) |
| Aug 16, 2019 | BBQ Festival 2019 Vanamõisa, Saue Parish | 7 / 18 (665.7372) | 5 (169.1312) | 11 (162.2860) | 6 (168.5828) | 10 (165.7372) |