High-water mark
665.6112
career-best overall
92.4% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 665.6112 at GLBBQA Spring Fling — 92.4% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- Apr 18, 2025
Midwest BBQ
Midwest BBQ is a competition barbecue team with 5 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2019 and 2025. Their best overall finish is 10th of 58 at the Lakeland Pig Festival (2019). They finished #1148 in the 2025 Master Series Team of the Year standings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1499
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 4
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
Jan 25, 2019
latest Apr 18, 2025 · 6.2 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
20% of 5 contests
Avg finish
top 57%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 166.11 · weakest Pork Ribs (161.55)
Road miles
1,019
across 5 mapped stops · furthest 1,019 mi
Schedule strength
42%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1555)
Purse competed for
$59K
listed at 4 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 4 state-championship entries
Master avg
664.75 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs
Backyard (4-meat) avg
643.31 / 720
2 Backyard (4-meat) contests · 0 GCs
These overall scores sit on different scales (Master out of 720, Backyard (4-meat) out of 720), 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)
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 ↗ | Master | #1148 (60 pts) | #1221 (60 pts) | #1293 (60 pts) | #935 (120 pts) | #1190 (60 pts) |
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to Midwest BBQ, each with one reason worth a look.
Midwest BBQ has 4 rated contests, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 109 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#3,269 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1508
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#3,274 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1499
Their last contest in the data was back in 2022, 3 years before Midwest BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#3,263 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1516
Level with Midwest BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#3,290 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1503
Careers of much the same size, 6 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#3,270 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 14%
- Peak
- 1501
Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2019.
⚔ Compare careers#3,279 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 43%
- Peak
- 1520
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 6 years before Midwest BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careersBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.7028 | 158.7884 | 166.11 | top 52% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.1084 | 157.1200 | 161.55 | top 64% |
| Pork | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 174.2628 | 148.5144 | 163.54 | top 47% |
| Brisket | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.8456 | 159.4172 | 162.83 | top 52% |
“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
Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GLBBQA Spring Fling | 2 | 43 | 0 | top 75% | Apr 18, 2025 |
| Lakeland Pig Festival | 2 | 10 | 0 | top 39% | Jan 24, 2020 |
More numbers
Contests a season
1
across 5 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
FL
3 of 5 contests · 2 states in all
Contests visited
2
2 of them more than once
Opponents faced
234
finished ahead 161 times, behind 166
Longest layoff
4.2 yrs
Jan 24, 2020 → Apr 19, 2024
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20253 milestones
- Career-best overall score665.6112 GLBBQA Spring Fling
- Career-best single call (Pork)174.2628 GLBBQA Spring Fling
- Most recent contest GLBBQA Spring Fling
20193 milestones
- First overall top-10 Lakeland Pig Festival
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score657.0856 Lakeland Pig Festival
- Peak power rating (1512) Lakeland Pig Festival
20181 milestone
- First tracked contest Lakeland Pig Festival
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +12.1 | Lakeland Pig Festival | Jan 25, 2019 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -6.7 | GLBBQA Spring Fling | Apr 18, 2025 |
| -3.5 | Lakeland Pig Festival | Jan 24, 2020 |
| -3.3 | GLBBQA Spring Fling | Apr 19, 2024 |
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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 80% | 92.4% | 92.4% |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 69% | 92.2% | 92.2% |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 60% | 87.4% | 87.4% |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0% | top 17% | 91.3% | 91.3% |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 18, 2025 | GLBBQA Spring Fling 🏅 Charlotte, MI | 45 / 56 (665.6112) | 36 (169.7028) | 49 (161.7028) | 13 (174.2628) | 47 (159.9428) |
| Apr 19, 2024 | GLBBQA Spring Fling 🏅 Charlotte, MI | 43 / 62 (663.8856) | 33 (169.6800) | 41 (165.1084) | 35 (169.6800) | 51 (159.4172) |
| Jan 24, 2020 | Lakeland Pig Festival 🏅 Lakeland, FL | 32 / 53 (629.5312) | 31 (158.7884) | 32 (157.1200) | 39 (148.5144) | 12 (165.1084) |
| Jan 25, 2019 | Lakeland Pig Festival 🏅 Lakeland, FL | 10 / 58 (657.0856) | 18 (166.2628) | 25 (162.2628) | 20 (161.7144) | 11 (166.8456) |
| Jan 26, 2018 | Lakeland Pig Festival Lakeland, FL | — | — | — | — | — |