PapaBearDawg BBQ
PapaBearDawg BBQ is a competition barbecue team with 2 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2024 and 2025. Their best overall finish is 14th of 34 at the BBQ, Boogie & Blues (2024). They finished #325 in the 2024 Backyard Series Team of the Year standings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1491
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 2
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
Apr 26, 2024
latest Aug 15, 2025 · 1.3 years on the trail
Avg finish
top 65%
overall standings
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 162.51 · weakest Brisket (151.95)
Road miles
38
across 2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$18K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
Master avg
629.50 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
321.60 / 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.
Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
By meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.3944 | 157.6340 | 162.51 | top 55% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 163.9660 | 157.0744 | 160.52 | top 61% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 164.5372 | 153.0744 | 158.81 | top 60% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 151.9544 | 151.9544 | 151.95 | top 93% |
“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
Opponents faced
75
finished ahead 30 times, behind 64
Longest layoff
1.3 yrs
Apr 26, 2024 → Aug 15, 2025
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20253 milestones
- Career-best overall score629.4976 Pigs & Peaches
- Career-best single call (Chicken)167.3944 Pigs & Peaches
- Most recent contest Pigs & Peaches
20242 milestones
- First tracked contest BBQ, Boogie & Blues
- First call BBQ, Boogie & Blues
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 15, 2025 | Pigs & Peaches 🏅 Kennesaw, GA | 24 / 27 (629.4976) | 17 (167.3944) | 26 (157.0744) | 26 (153.0744) | 25 (151.9544) |
| Apr 26, 2024 | BBQ, Boogie & Blues 🏅 Calhoun, GA | 14 / 34 (321.6000) | 16 (157.6340) | 9 (163.9660) | 8 (164.5372) | — |