Their season
2025
their best year
2025 was the year it came together: 3 contests, 0 Grand Championships and 0 category wins, at an average finish in the top 60%.
- 3 contests
- 0 overall top-10s
- 0 category wins
- average top 60%
Leaky Tiki
Leaky Tiki is a competition barbecue team with 9 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2023 and 2025. Their best overall finish is 6th of 8 at the Cranberry Country Rally Days Backyard BBQ Contest (BACKYARD ONLY) (2023). They are ranked #4236 of 6,491 teams in the KCBS power rankings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1478
peak 1502 · rated over 7 contests
Contests
9
in the data
First seen
Jun 2, 2023
latest Jun 14, 2025 · 2 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
11% of 9 contests
Avg finish
top 76%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
326.68
last 5 Backyard vs avg 327.09 (-0.42)
Walk rate
22%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±7.61
spread of their Backyard overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 164.14 · weakest Brisket (147.90)
Road miles
352
across 9 mapped stops · furthest 142 mi
Schedule strength
53%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1568)
Purse competed for
$48K
listed at 9 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 5 state-championship entries
Master avg
594.57 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
327.09 / 360
6 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)
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to Leaky Tiki, each with one reason worth a look.
139 rated teams sit within a point of this rating, so a place on this list means the numbers match — no more than that.
#4,242 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 14%
- Peak
- 1510
They've been 1510 at their best, 32 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Compare careers#4,223 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1503
Careers of much the same size, 7 contests to 9, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#4,244 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1478
They were already cooking in 2018, 5 years before Leaky Tiki's first contest.
⚔ Compare careers#4,225 of the rated field
- Contests
- 8
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 25%
- Peak
- 1479
Level with Leaky Tiki on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#4,221 of the rated field
- Contests
- 8
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1479
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 4 years before Leaky Tiki's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#4,249 of the rated field
- Contests
- 8
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 13%
- Peak
- 1503
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 4 years before Leaky Tiki's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careersFamiliar foes (most-met opponents in overall standings — one meeting per contest)
| Opponent | Meetings | Ahead | Behind | Win rate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Big Racks BBQ | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| DAD BOD BARBEQUE | 5 | 2 | 3 | 40% | ⚔ compare |
| Big Ten Bones | 5 | 1 | 4 | 20% | ⚔ compare |
| DAWGS BBQ | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| Marty Party BBQ | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| Sensuous BBQ | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
By meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 167.4056 | 158.8000 | 164.14 | top 69% |
| Pork Ribs | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 166.8228 | 139.9772 | 157.11 | top 79% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 147.8972 | 147.8972 | 147.90 | top 100% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 147.8972 | 147.8972 | 147.90 | top 89% |
“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) | 2 | 0 | top 88% |
| Medium (20–39) | 5 | 0 | top 71% |
Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bring'n Home the Bacon II (BACKYARD) | 2 | 15 | 0 | top 98% | Oct 15, 2023 |
More numbers
Busiest season
2023
6 contests
Contests a season
4.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
WI
8 of 9 contests · 2 states in all
Contests visited
6
1 of them more than once
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
9 entries · 0 wins · 2 calls
Opponents faced
132
finished ahead 95 times, behind 189
Longest layoff
1.7 yrs
Oct 15, 2023 → Jun 13, 2025
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20252 milestones
- Career-best single call (Chicken)167.4056 Bring'n Home the Bacon Day 1 (MASTER & BACKYARD)
- Most recent contest Bring'n Home the Bacon Day 2 (MASTER & BACKYARD)
20236 milestones
- First tracked contest Smokin in Steele
- First call Smokin in Steele
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score329.1772 Smokin in Steele
- Peak power rating (1502) Smokin in Steele
- Career-best overall score594.5716 BBCubed - Brighton Barbeque Bash
- First overall top-10 Cranberry Country Rally Days Backyard BBQ Contest (BACKYARD ONLY)
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +4.8 | Bring'n Home the Bacon Day 2 (MASTER & BACKYARD) | Jun 14, 2025 |
| +2.2 | Smokin in Steele | Jun 2, 2023 |
| +0.8 | Bring'n Home the Bacon Day 1 (MASTER & BACKYARD) | Jun 13, 2025 |
| +0.5 | Bring'n Home the Bacon II (BACKYARD) | Oct 15, 2023 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -14.4 | BBCubed - Brighton Barbeque Bash | Jul 14, 2023 |
| -10.8 | Bring'n Home the Bacon II (MASTER & BACKYARD) | Oct 13, 2023 |
| -4.8 | Cranberry Country Rally Days Backyard BBQ Contest (BACKYARD ONLY) | Sep 15, 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 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 60% | 92.8% | 92.5% |
| 2023 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 33% | top 82% | 92.4% | 88.5% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 2025 | Bring'n Home the Bacon Day 2 (MASTER & BACKYARD) 🏅 West Salem, WI | 18 / 36 (331.9200) | 21 (165.6800) | 21 (166.2400) | — | — |
| Jun 13, 2025 | Bring'n Home the Bacon Day 1 (MASTER & BACKYARD) 🏅 West Salem, WI | 25 / 36 (334.2284) | 24 (167.4056) | 23 (166.8228) | — | — |
| Jun 13, 2025 | Bring'n Home the Bacon (ONE MEAT RIBS) West Salem, WI | — | — | 33 (154.2632) | — | — |
| Oct 15, 2023 | Bring'n Home the Bacon II (BACKYARD) West Salem, WI | 15 / 24 (332.5832) | 16 (166.2744) | 14 (166.3088) | — | — |
| Oct 13, 2023 | Bring'n Home the Bacon II (MASTER & BACKYARD) 🏅 West Salem, WI | 28 / 21 (312.4456) | 16 (166.2628) | 30 (146.1828) | — | — |
| Sep 15, 2023 | Cranberry Country Rally Days Backyard BBQ Contest (BACKYARD ONLY) Tomah, WI | 6 / 8 (322.2056) | 6 (161.6800) | 5 (160.5256) | — | — |
| Jul 14, 2023 | BBCubed - Brighton Barbeque Bash 🏅 Oshkosh, WI | 19 / 19 (594.5716) | 18 (158.8000) | 19 (139.9772) | 19 (147.8972) | 17 (147.8972) |
| Jul 14, 2023 | BBCubed - Brighton Barbeque Bash (ONE MEAT RIBS) Oshkosh, WI | — | — | 15 (147.3944) | — | — |
| Jun 2, 2023 | Smokin in Steele 🏅 Owatonna, MN | 12 / 29 (329.1772) | 14 (162.8800) | 8 (166.2972) | — | — |