Why Not BBQ
Why Not BBQ is a competition barbecue team with 4 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2022 and 2025. Their best overall finish is 15th of 18 at the La Classique What the Pork? (2025).
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1474
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 4
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
Apr 1, 2022
latest Aug 1, 2025 · 3.3 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
0% of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 73%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 170.58 · weakest Pork Ribs (156.12)
Road miles
1,087
across 4 mapped stops · furthest 1,087 mi
Schedule strength
15%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1522)
Purse competed for
$12K
listed at 1 contest — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 1 state-championship entry
Master avg
657.11 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
313.67 / 360
2 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)
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 ↗ | Backyard | — | #377 (56 pts) | #314 (91 pts) | — | — |
By meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.4172 | 157.1312 | 160.84 | top 76% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.8688 | 146.8116 | 156.12 | top 82% |
| Pork | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 171.4628 | 169.7028 | 170.58 | top 27% |
| Brisket | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 167.4172 | 165.1200 | 166.27 | top 53% |
“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) | 1 | 0 | top 83% |
| Medium (20–39) | 2 | 0 | top 79% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 51% |
Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa State BBQ Championship | 2 | 24 | 0 | top 72% | Mar 31, 2023 |
More numbers
Contests a season
1
across 4 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
QC
2 of 4 contests · 2 states and provinces in all
Contests visited
3
1 of them more than once
Opponents faced
121
finished ahead 44 times, behind 100
Longest layoff
1.3 yrs
Mar 31, 2023 → Aug 2, 2024
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20252 milestones
- Career-best overall score660.5028 La Classique What the Pork?
- Most recent contest La Classique What the Pork?
20243 milestones
- First call La Classique BBQ Labonte
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score653.7256 La Classique BBQ Labonte
- Career-best single call (Pork)171.4628 La Classique BBQ Labonte
20222 milestones
- First tracked contest Iowa State BBQ Championship (Backyard)
- Peak power rating (1487) Iowa State BBQ Championship (Backyard)
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -13.1 | Iowa State BBQ Championship (Backyard) | Apr 1, 2022 |
| -9.6 | La Classique What the Pork? | Aug 1, 2025 |
| -3.5 | La Classique BBQ Labonte | Aug 2, 2024 |
| -0.1 | Iowa State BBQ Championship | Mar 31, 2023 |
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 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 83% | 91.7% | 91.7% |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 65% | 90.8% | 90.8% |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 51% | 88.9% | 88.9% |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 93% | 85.4% | 85.4% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 2025 | La Classique What the Pork? Sainte-Perpetue, QC | 15 / 18 (660.5028) | 17 (163.4172) | 18 (159.9656) | 7 (169.7028) | 12 (167.4172) |
| Aug 2, 2024 | La Classique BBQ Labonte Sainte-Perpetue, QC | 17 / 26 (653.7256) | 21 (162.2972) | 24 (154.8456) | 4 (171.4628) | 10 (165.1200) |
| Mar 31, 2023 | Iowa State BBQ Championship 🏅 Altoona, IA | 24 / 47 (320) | 26 (157.1312) | 18 (162.8688) | — | — |
| Apr 1, 2022 | Iowa State BBQ Championship (Backyard) Altoona, IA | 25 / 27 (307.3372) | 20 (160.5256) | 26 (146.8116) | — | — |