High-water mark
510.2284
career-best overall
94.5% of a perfect 540
Their best day on record: 510.2284 at Dr. George Smith BBQ Brawl (COMPETITOR SERIES) — 94.5% of a perfect 540.
- Competitor Series
- Apr 25, 2025
Carter's BBQ
Carter's BBQ is a competition barbecue team with 8 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2023 and 2025. Their best overall finish is 12th of 32 at the Dr. George Smith BBQ Brawl (COMPETITORS SERIES) (2023). They finished #368 in the 2025 Backyard Series Team of the Year standings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1510
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 33 invitational or side-series contests not counted
Contests
8
in the data
First seen
Mar 17, 2023
latest Apr 25, 2025 · 2.1 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
0% of 8 contests
Avg finish
top 42%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
25%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±5.93
spread of their Backyard overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 165.47 · weakest Pork (160.23)
Road miles
75
across 7 mapped stops
Schedule strength
83%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1609)
Purse competed for
$47K
listed at 6 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 3 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
325.23 / 360
3 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
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 Carter's BBQ, each with one reason worth a look.
Carter's BBQ has 3 rated contests, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 93 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#2,827 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 29%
- Peak
- 1535
Careers of much the same size, 7 contests to 8, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#2,810 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1515
Level with Carter's BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#2,828 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1510
Fewer contests behind them than Carter's BBQ has cooked, 5 to 8, which makes theirs the less settled rating of the two.
⚔ Compare careers#2,819 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1511
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 8 years before Carter's BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#2,813 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1517
They were already cooking in 2013, 10 years before Carter's BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Compare careers#2,816 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1518
Their last contest in the data was back in 2014, 11 years before Carter's BBQ'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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pig Destroyer | 6 | 1 | 5 | 17% | ⚔ compare |
| Smokin' Bandits BBQ | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| Hogs B Hatin' | 5 | 3 | 2 | 60% | ⚔ compare |
| LEE LA Q | 5 | 1 | 4 | 20% | ⚔ compare |
| Purdom's BBQ | 5 | 1 | 4 | 20% | ⚔ compare |
By meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 169.1200 | 157.0512 | 165.47 | top 38% |
| Pork Ribs | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.5372 | 157.1088 | 163.30 | top 44% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.2284 | 158.2400 | 160.23 | top 35% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 3 | 0 | top 44% |
| Large (40+) | 3 | 0 | top 40% |
Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smoke on the Shores BBQ Championship | 3 | 35 | 0 | top 40% | Mar 14, 2025 |
| Dr. George Smith BBQ Brawl (COMPETITORS SERIES) | 2 | 12 | 0 | top 45% | May 12, 2023 |
More numbers
Busiest season
2023
3 contests
Contests a season
2
across 4 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
TN
8 of 8 contests
Contests visited
3
2 of them more than once
Opponents faced
295
finished ahead 253 times, behind 251
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20253 milestones
- Peak power rating (1510) Smoke on the Shores BBQ Championship
- Career-best overall score510.2284 Dr. George Smith BBQ Brawl (COMPETITOR SERIES)
- Most recent contest Dr. George Smith BBQ Brawl (COMPETITOR SERIES)
—4 milestones
- First tracked contest Dr.George Smith BBQ Brawl (COMPETITORS SERIES)
- First call Dr.George Smith BBQ Brawl (COMPETITORS SERIES)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score499.3260 Dr.George Smith BBQ Brawl (COMPETITORS SERIES)
- Career-best single call (Chicken)169.1200 Dr.George Smith BBQ Brawl (COMPETITORS SERIES)
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +5.1 | Smoke on the Shores BBQ Championship | Mar 14, 2025 |
| +4.7 | Smoke on the Shores BBQ Championship | Mar 15, 2024 |
| +0.6 | Smoke on the Shores BBQ Championship | Mar 17, 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 53% | 92.5% | 92.5% |
| 2025 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 38% | 94.5% | 93.6% |
| 2024 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 38% | 89.2% | 89.2% |
| 2023 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33% | top 43% | 92.8% | 91% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 25, 2025 | Dr. George Smith BBQ Brawl (COMPETITOR SERIES) unrated Murfreesboro, TN | 13 / 31 (510.2284) | 14 (169.1084) | 12 (168.5372) | — | — |
| Mar 14, 2025 | Smoke on the Shores BBQ Championship 🏅 Lebanon, TN | 35 / 100 (333.6228) | 34 (167.3828) | 36 (166.2400) | 43 (158.2400) | — |
| Mar 15, 2024 | Smoke on the Shores BBQ Championship 🏅 Lebanon, TN | 35 / 93 (321.0284) | 43 (157.0512) | 26 (163.9772) | 26 (162.2284) | — |
| Mar 15, 2024 | Smoke on the Shores BBQ Championship (ONE MEAT RIBS) Lebanon, TN | — | — | — | — | — |
| May 12, 2023 | Dr. George Smith BBQ Brawl (COMPETITORS SERIES) unrated Murfreesboro, TN | 12 / 32 (501.0400) | 10 (166.2400) | 16 (165.6800) | — | — |
| Mar 17, 2023 | Smoke on the Shores BBQ Championship 🏅 Lebanon, TN | 38 / 80 (321.0516) | 35 (163.9428) | 37 (157.1088) | — | — |
| Mar 17, 2023 | Smoke on the Shores BBQ Championship (One Meat Ribs) Lebanon, TN | — | — | — | — | — |
| — | Dr.George Smith BBQ Brawl (COMPETITORS SERIES) unrated Murfreesboro, TN | 19 / 36 (499.3260) | 9 (169.1200) | 24 (158.2288) | — | — |
An unrated contest — an invitational, or a Competitor or Kosher Series board — is in the record but doesn’t move the power rating.