High-water mark
676.0116
career-best overall
93.9% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 676.0116 at Albany County Fair Smokin' BBQ Cook-Off — 93.9% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- Jul 25, 2025
BBQ Ballers
BBQ Ballers is a competition barbecue team with 5 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2014 and 2025. Their best overall finish is 13th of 26 at the Albany County Fair Smokin' BBQ Cook-Off (2025). They finished #967 in the 2025 Master Series Team of the Year standings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1507
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 21 invitational or side-series contest not counted
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
Oct 2, 2014
latest Jul 25, 2025 · 10.8 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
0% of 5 contests
Avg finish
top 51%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
60%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 167.64 · weakest Brisket (160.73)
Road miles
3,533
across 5 mapped stops · furthest 702 mi
Purse competed for
$51K
listed at 4 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 4 state-championship entries
Master avg
664.30 / 720
2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 ↗ | Master | #967 (111 pts) | #907 (136 pts) | #1291 (61 pts) | #789 (176 pts) | #1007 (111 pts) |
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to BBQ Ballers, each with one reason worth a look.
BBQ Ballers has 2 rated contests, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 111 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#2,975 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1507
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#2,960 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1508
They turned up 6 years after BBQ Ballers did, first appearing in 2020.
⚔ Compare careers#2,986 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1506
Level with BBQ Ballers on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#2,966 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1511
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#2,968 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
Their last contest in the data was back in 2022, 3 years before BBQ Ballers's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#2,978 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1506
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 7 years before BBQ Ballers's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careersBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 171.4516 | 162.8688 | 165.73 | top 45% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 169.7256 | 159.4172 | 166.29 | top 54% |
| Pork | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 174.8800 | 164.0228 | 167.64 | top 36% |
| Brisket | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.2628 | 155.9656 | 160.73 | top 65% |
“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
More numbers
Busiest season
2025
2 contests
Contests a season
1.3
across 4 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
SC
2 of 5 contests · 3 states in all
Contests visited
3
a different one every time
Opponents faced
57
finished ahead 33 times, behind 40
Longest layoff
6.1 yrs
May 31, 2019 → Jul 10, 2025
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20261 milestone
- Most recent contest South Carolina Festival of Discovery
20252 milestones
- Career-best overall score676.0116 Albany County Fair Smokin' BBQ Cook-Off
- Career-best single call (Pork)174.8800 Albany County Fair Smokin' BBQ Cook-Off
20143 milestones
- First tracked contest Certified BBQ Judging Class
- First call Certified BBQ Judging Class
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score162.8688 Certified BBQ Judging Class
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2025 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 50% | 93.9% | 93.9% |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 52% | 90.6% | 90.6% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | — | 90.5% | 90.5% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 2026 | South Carolina Festival of Discovery 🏅 Greenwood, SC | — | — | — | — | — |
| Jul 25, 2025 | Albany County Fair Smokin' BBQ Cook-Off 🏅 Laramie, WY | 13 / 26 (676.0116) | 9 (171.4516) | 23 (159.4172) | 5 (174.8800) | 13 (170.2628) |
| Jul 10, 2025 | South Carolina Festival of Discovery 🏅 Greenwood, SC | — | — | — | — | — |
| May 31, 2019 | Smokin on the Lake 🏅 Monroe City, MO | 13 / 25 (652.5828) | 14 (162.8688) | 5 (169.7256) | 13 (164.0228) | 20 (155.9656) |
| Oct 2, 2014 | Certified BBQ Judging Class unrated Kansas City, MO | 14 (162.8688) | 14 (162.8688) | 5 (169.7256) | 13 (164.0228) | 20 (155.9656) |
An unrated contest — an invitational, or a Competitor or Kosher Series board — is in the record but doesn’t move the power rating.