#3246 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1508
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headLoCo BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1498
peak 1507 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2024-05-31
latest 2025-05-30
Best ToY finish
#288
Backyard 2024
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 53%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 159.69 · weakest Chicken (156.01)
Road miles
2
mi across 2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$10K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
315.69 / 360
2 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
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.
LoCo 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 126 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.
#3261 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1499
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2022, 3 years before LoCo BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3245 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2017, 7 years before LoCo BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3285 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
Level with LoCo BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3288 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1509
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 8 years before LoCo BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3287 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1518
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 8 years before LoCo 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 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 161.1544 | 150.8572 | 156.01 | top 52% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 161.1316 | 158.2400 | 159.69 | top 48% |
| 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.
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smokin' in Steele | 2 | 9 | 0 | top 53% | 2025-05-30 |
The story so far (15 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1 yrs
2024-05-31 → 2025-05-30
Busiest season
2025
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
MN
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
1
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 159.69 · weakest Chicken (156.01)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 1 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
50%
1 of 2 contests
Backyard average
315.69
out of 360 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
63
32–58 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
2
2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$10,000
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Power rating
1498
peak 1507 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2024
- First tracked contest Smokin in Steele
- First call Smokin in Steele
- First overall top-10 Smokin in Steele
- Career-best overall score319.3944 Smokin in Steele
- Career-best single call (Chicken)161.1544 Smokin in Steele
- 2025
- Most recent contest Smokin' in Steele
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)
Team of the Year rank by season
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 | 0% | top 79% | 86.7% | 86.7% |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 28% | 88.7% | 88.7% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-30 | Smokin' in Steele 🏅 Owatonna, MN | 22 / 28 (311.9888) | 21 (150.8572) | 19 (161.1316) | — | — |
| 2024-05-31 | Smokin in Steele 🏅 Owatonna, MN | 9 / 32 (319.3944) | 9 (161.1544) | 9 (158.2400) | — | — |
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 | #367 (62 pts) | #366 (67 pts) | #364 (77 pts) | — | — |
| 2024 ↗ | Backyard | #288 (122 pts) | #299 (122 pts) | #310 (122 pts) | — | — |