The comeback
4.4 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 4.4 years, then back at Smokin' in the Valley (2023-11-04).
- last seen 2019-05-31
- back 2023-11-04
Westy's BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1509
peak 1509 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
2019-05-31
latest 2025-06-14
Best ToY finish
#198
Backyard 2025
Grand champs
0
1 reserve
Category wins
1
2 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 5 contests
Avg finish
top 31%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
60%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 151.78 · weakest Chicken (113.91)
Road miles
11,205
mi across 5 mapped stops · furthest 10925 mi
Purse competed for
$10K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
239.97 / 360
2 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Storylines (2 found in this team's record)
Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
The long haul
11,205
road miles between contests
Contest to contest, they've covered roughly 11,205 miles across 5 mapped stops — the longest single trip being 10,925 miles to Smokin' in the Valley.
- 5 mapped stops
- furthest 10,925 mi
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The nearest teams in the power rankings, with a different reason on each card — six teams on one rating are rarely on it for the same reason. Rating decides who makes the list; where teams tie on it, the ones this team has actually cooked against come first, then teams at a similar point in their own career. KCBS doesn’t publish where a team is from, so nothing here is inferred from geography.
Westy's BBQ has 2 rated contests — short of the five it takes to earn a power ranking — so this rating has barely moved off the 1500 every team starts on and 99 rated teams sit within a point of it. Read the list as the nearest company at a number nobody here has moved far from, not as a verdict on who this team belongs with.
#2841 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1515
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2020, 5 years before Westy's BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2857 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1509
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#2843 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1519
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2013, 6 years before Westy's BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#2852 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1509
No shared contest yet.
Level with Westy's BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2854 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1509
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 8 years before Westy's BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2847 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1509
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2016, 9 years before Westy's BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 161.7372 | 20.0000 | 113.91 | top 31% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 156.5600 | 143.3716 | 151.78 | top 46% |
| Pork | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
| Brisket | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
“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 state / province
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| WA | 1 | 0 | top 20% |
| IL | 1 | 0 | top 42% |
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 20% |
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 42% |
The story so far (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
6 yrs
2019-05-31 → 2025-06-14
Busiest season
2024
2 contests
Contests a season
1.3
across 4 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
WA
1 of 5 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
3 entries · 1 win · 2 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 151.78 · weakest Chicken (113.91)
Walk rate
60%
a top-10 call in 3 of 5 contests
Overall top-10 rate
20%
1 of 5 contests
Backyard average
239.97
out of 360 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
63
31–30 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
11,205
5 mapped stops · furthest 10,925 mi
Purse competed for
$9,525
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
4.4 yrs
2019-05-31 → 2023-11-04
Power rating
1509
peak 1509 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2019
- First tracked contest Up In Smoke on the Square
- 2024
- First call OMC - Pork Ribs in Bakers (ONE MEAT RIBS)
- Career-best single call (Chicken)161.7372 Chicken in Bakers (ONE MEAT CHICKEN)
- 2025
- First category win (Chicken) Smokin Barrel Fest
- First overall top-10 Smokin Barrel Fest
- First overall podium Smokin Barrel Fest
- First Reserve Championship Smokin Barrel Fest
- Career-best overall score316.5600 Smokin Barrel Fest
- Most recent contest Smokin Barrel Fest
Category scores over time
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 | 1 | 100% | top 20% | 87.9% | 87.9% |
| 2024 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | — | — | — |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 42% | 45.4% | 45.4% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-06-14 | Smokin Barrel Fest Nanson, WA | 2 / 10 (316.5600) | 1 (160.0000) | 3 (156.5600) | — | — |
| 2024-02-24 | Chicken in Bakers (ONE MEAT CHICKEN) Bakers Hill, Western Australia, 6562 | — | 4 (161.7372) | — | — | — |
| 2024-02-24 | OMC - Pork Ribs in Bakers (ONE MEAT RIBS) Bakers Hill, Western Australia, 6562 | — | — | 7 (155.3944) | — | — |
| 2023-11-04 | Smokin' in the Valley Perth, Western Australia, | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2019-05-31 | Up In Smoke on the Square 🏅 Lincoln, IL | 15 / 36 (163.3716) | 15 (20.0000) | 11 (143.3716) | — | — |
Career map (orange GC · green top-10 · grey the rest — tap a pin)
Team of the Year standings (rank per category by season — year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 ↗ | Backyard | #198 (229 pts) | #193 (254 pts) | #232 (204 pts) | — | — |
| 2024 ↗ | Master | — | #800 (185 pts) | #951 (139 pts) | — | — |