WHO DAT BBQ SD

Power ranking

#369

of 2982 rated · rankings

Rating

1625

peak 1645

Contests

in the data

First seen

2019-04-12

latest 2025-06-06

Best ToY finish

#105

Master 2021

Grand champs

0 reserve

Category wins

24 podiums

Overall top-10s

of 40 contests

Avg finish

top 33%

overall standings

Best overall

698.8456

Smoke in the Spring

Perfect 180s

2 🔥

Current form

668.72 ▼

last 5 vs career avg 677.71 (-8.99)

Walk rate

70%

contests with a top-10 call

Top-10 streak

best run (overall)

Best single call

180.0000 🔥

Pork · GOBS Que (DAY 1)

Consistency

±14.33

std dev of overall scores (lower = steadier)

Strongest meat

Pork

avg 171.48 · weakest Brisket (167.23)

Road miles

11546

mi across 40 mapped stops · furthest 2443 mi

⚔ Compare with another team

Storylines

🎯 The one to beat

4 LEGS UP BBQ has finished one call ahead of WHO DAT BBQ 2 times — their closest competition in the data.

👀 Looking over their shoulder

OWENS BBQ has landed one call behind them 3 times.

⚔️ A tough matchup

LAST CALL HEROES BBQ has come out ahead in 17 of their 24 shared contests.

⚔️ A strong matchup

They've finished ahead of RICHIE Z's in 16 of their 22 shared contests.

🏕️ Happy hunting ground

Smoke in the Spring is their spot: an average finish in the top 7% across 2 visits.

📅 A August team

Something about August: average finish in the top 22% across 5 contests, versus top 33% the rest of the year.

Teams like this (closest power rating, SD first)

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By meat

Category	Entries	Calls	Wins	Podiums	Best	Worst	Average	Avg finish
Chicken	38	10	1	5	180.0000 🔥	154.7656	169.41	top 46%
Pork Ribs	40	18	1	7	178.8572	155.9428	169.77	top 37%
Pork	38	19	6	10	180.0000 🔥	154.2284	171.48	top 32%
Brisket	38	10	1	2	178.2972	146.8344	167.23	top 44%

“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
SD	11	0	top 28%
KS	10	0	top 33%
MN	5	1	top 22%
IA	4	0	top 30%
NE	4	0	top 33%
WI	2	0	top 62%
AK	1	0	top 89%
OK	1	0	top 58%

By contest size

Field	Contests	GCs	Avg finish
Small (<20 teams)	1	0	top 89%
Medium (20–39)	16	1	top 30%
Large (40+)	21	0	top 33%

The story so far

Busiest season: 2021 (14 contests)
Cooks mostly in SD (12 of 40 contests)
Most-entered category: Pork Ribs (40 entries)
First Grand Championship in the data: KTD Smokin Gobbler Cook-Off (2019-09-13)
Wins it all in 3% of contests
All-time average overall score: 677.71
2 perfect 180s on the books 🔥

Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)

Category scores over time

Overall finish over time (top-% of field, lower is better)

Where they finish (overall)

Best vs average (by meat)

Team of the Year rank by season

Season by season

Season	Contests	GCs	Category wins	Best overall	Avg overall
2025	1	0	0	690.7768	690.78
2023	2	0	0	666.7200	646.74
2022	5	0	1	689.1088	682.23
2021	14	0	3	698.8456	678.23
2020	8	0	1	693.0744	680.30
2019	10	1	4	694.7768	678.04

Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)

Date	Event	Overall	Chicken	Ribs	Pork	Brisket
2025-06-06	Original SD BBQ Championships Huron, SD	10 / 48 (690.7768)	24 (170.8228)	17 (171.4056)	5 (176.0000)	12 (172.5484)
2023-09-08	Ribs, Rods & Rock N Roll Vermillion, SD	21 / 28 (666.7200)	7 (173.1200)	25 (159.9544)	24 (163.9656)	8 (169.6800)
2023-06-30	Kenai River BBQ Competition Soldotna, AK	8 / 9 (626.7656)	8 (163.4400)	9 (162.2628)	8 (154.2284)	8 (146.8344)
2022-09-09	Ribs, Rods & Rock N Roll Vermillion, SD	11 / 28 (678.2632)	2 (177.1772)	7 (170.2860)	22 (162.8000)	14 (168.0000)
2022-06-03	Original SD BBQ Championship Huron, SD	15 / 46 (681.0856)	20 (168.5600)	14 (171.9772)	19 (169.1200)	13 (171.4284)
2022-06-02	Original SD BBQ Championship (One Meat Ribs) Huron, SD	—	—	2 (173.7028)	—	—
2022-04-01	Iowa State BBQ Championship Altoona, IA	4 / 48 (689.1088)	20 (170.8344)	1 (178.8572)	2 (176.0116)	34 (163.4056)
2022-03-18	Qlathe BBQ Championship Olathe, KS	20 / 71 (680.4456)	46 (165.6800)	35 (166.2400)	6 (175.4172)	12 (173.1084)
2021-09-16	American Royal World Series of Barbecue-INVITATIONAL CONTEST Kansas City, KS	78 / 185 (682.8116)	124 (168.5600)	12 (177.7028)	76 (171.4172)	136 (165.1316)
2021-09-16	American Royal World Series of Barbecue-OPEN CONTEST Kansas City, KS	193 / 467 (666.8112)	167 (168.5600)	199 (167.9656)	178 (167.3828)	254 (162.9028)
2021-09-10	Ribs, Rods & Rock N Roll Vermillion, SD	3 / 26 (686.2972)	14 (168.5600)	3 (174.3200)	1 (176.5600)	14 (166.8572)
2021-08-27	Hill City Wine Brew and BBQ Fest Hill City, SD	8 / 31 (689.6572)	22 (168.5372)	7 (174.8572)	3 (177.7144)	15 (168.5484)
2021-08-14	GOBS Que (DAY 2) Arlington, NE	5 / 25 (687.3368)	14 (169.1200)	17 (165.6684)	1 (177.7028)	9 (174.8456)
2021-08-13	GOBS Que (DAY 1) Arlington, NE	5 / 26 (683.3140)	15 (167.3828)	9 (169.1084)	1 (180.0000)	15 (166.8228)
2021-07-16	KTD Smokin' Gobbler Cook-off Worthington, MN	17 / 33 (673.6456)	13 (171.4056)	27 (162.8572)	18 (169.6800)	13 (169.7028)
2021-06-12	Bring'n Home the Bacon - Day 2 West Salem, WI	32 / 45 (654.2284)	40 (161.6800)	11 (169.1544)	35 (159.9540)	27 (163.4400)
2021-06-11	Bring'n Home the Bacon - Day 1 West Salem, WI	27 / 52 (659.9884)	25 (166.8456)	16 (167.4056)	18 (169.7372)	45 (156.0000)
2021-06-04	Original SD BBQ Championship Huron, SD	5 / 49 (689.1088)	27 (165.0972)	2 (177.1544)	5 (174.8572)	8 (172.0000)
2021-05-07	Minnesota in May Cambridge, MN	16 / 60 (673.1088)	2 (177.7372)	52 (155.9428)	14 (170.2744)	16 (169.1544)
2021-05-07	Minnesota in May - One Meat Contest - Ribs Cambridge, MN	—	—	9 (172.5716)	—	—
2021-04-09	Smoke in the Spring Osage City, KS	5 / 105 (698.8456)	46 (170.8228)	8 (176.5600)	13 (176.5600)	14 (174.9028)
2021-03-19	3rd Annual Qlathe BBQ Championship Olathe, KS	33 / 70 (671.8396)	29 (169.6684)	34 (168.5600)	6 (176.5600)	57 (157.0512)
2020-11-13	Second Annual KCBS World Invitational Barbeque Competition Mayetta, KS	32 / 94 (689.6800)	35 (172.5600)	38 (172.5600)	37 (173.1544)	44 (171.4056)
2020-10-30	Smoke in the Spring Osage City, KS	8 / 93 (693.0744)	4 (177.7028)	77 (160.5144)	5 (176.5600)	1 (178.2972)
2020-09-18	KTD Smokin' Gobbler Cook-off Worthington, MN	3 / 35 (690.8572)	10 (173.1428)	4 (173.7256)	3 (174.8572)	14 (169.1316)
2020-09-11	Ribs, Rod and Rock N Roll Vermillion, SD	13 / 29 (674.8344)	24 (163.9888)	8 (174.2972)	9 (172.5828)	16 (163.9656)
2020-06-27	Back to Mayberry Day 2 Rodney, IA	15 / 47 (677.0512)	11 (172.5828)	36 (162.2284)	3 (176.0000)	24 (166.2400)
2020-06-26	Back to Mayberry Day 1 Rodney, IA	22 / 53 (668.4916)	31 (164.5484)	19 (167.4288)	30 (166.8344)	12 (169.6800)
2020-06-12	Beats, Brews, & BBQ Wagoner, OK	32 / 55 (669.1084)	22 (170.8456)	40 (162.2400)	24 (171.4400)	37 (164.5828)
2020-03-13	2nd Annual Qlathe BBQ Championship Olathe, KS	21 / 68 (679.3024)	40 (166.2284)	18 (171.9656)	23 (170.8456)	19 (170.2628)
2019-09-20	Little Apple Classic Car & BBQ Cook Off Manhattan, KS	4 / 24 (690.8344)	13 (168.5256)	2 (176.5944)	1 (178.8800)	10 (166.8344)
2019-09-13	KTD Smokin Gobbler Cook-Off Worthington, MN	1 / 26 (686.1944)	2 (176.5600)	2 (174.2628)	13 (165.0972)	4 (170.2744)
2019-09-06	Ribs, Rod & Rock'n Roll Vermillion, SD	4 / 29 (694.7768)	1 (180.0000)	10 (170.8112)	1 (177.7372)	20 (166.2284)
2019-08-16	SMSU Smokefest MARSHALL, MN	8 / 46 (683.9888)	9 (174.8572)	23 (167.9888)	16 (169.7144)	8 (171.4284)
2019-08-09	GOBS Que Arlington, NE	8 / 29 (671.8740)	13 (166.8228)	13 (165.6800)	1 (177.1428)	16 (162.2284)
2019-07-19	Cookin On Kampeska Watertown, SD	4 / 40 (686.8228)	2 (176.5828)	3 (177.1544)	10 (171.4172)	26 (161.6684)
2019-06-28	Back To Mayberry Rodney, IA	11 / 28 (674.2516)	22 (167.4056)	7 (169.7144)	17 (167.4172)	9 (169.7144)
2019-05-31	Original SD BBQ Championship Huron, SD	7 / 37 (683.9544)	22 (165.1088)	8 (170.8572)	9 (171.9884)	2 (176.0000)
2019-04-26	Q for a Cause Papillion, NE	21 / 32 (662.7312)	24 (161.6800)	16 (167.9772)	27 (163.3828)	13 (169.6912)
2019-04-12	Smoke In the Springs Osage City, KS	79 / 104 (644.9368)	94 (154.7656)	25 (170.2972)	62 (165.0856)	83 (154.7884)

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
2023 ↗	Master	#735 (202 pts)	#639 (287 pts)	#944 (172 pts)	#787 (187 pts)	#626 (277 pts)
2022 ↗	Master	#416 (528 pts)	#465 (483 pts)	#288 (872 pts)	#397 (593 pts)	#523 (413 pts)
2021 ↗	Master	#105 (1421 pts)	#186 (1001 pts)	#90 (1527 pts)	#51 (1841 pts)	#168 (1061 pts)
2020 ↗	Master	#133 (829 pts)	#162 (729 pts)	#159 (724 pts)	#102 (989 pts)	#124 (839 pts)
2019 ↗	Master	#137 (1618 pts)	#159 (1423 pts)	#140 (1523 pts)	#139 (1538 pts)	#192 (1293 pts)
2018 ↗	Master	#577 (610 pts)	#473 (770 pts)	#616 (595 pts)	#666 (555 pts)	#648 (570 pts)