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
- 2025-04-18
Midwest BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1499
peak 1512 · rated over 4 contests ⓘ
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
2019-01-25
latest 2025-04-18
Best ToY finish
#1148
Master 2025
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
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
mi across 5 mapped stops · furthest 1019 mi
Schedule strength
41%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1555)
Purse competed for
$59K
listed at 4 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 4 state-championship entries
Master avg
664.75 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
643.31 / 360
2 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
Master and Backyard overall scores sit on different scales (Master is out of 720, Backyard out of 360), 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.
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 comeback
4.2 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 4.2 years, then back at GLBBQA Spring Fling (2024-04-19).
- last seen 2020-01-24
- back 2024-04-19
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.
Midwest BBQ has 4 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 127 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.
#3246 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1508
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#3236 of the rated field
- Contests
- 9
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 11%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
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.
⚔ Head-to-head#3261 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1499
No shared contest yet.
Their rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 6 contests, alongside a 17% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-head#3245 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
Level with Midwest BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3266 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1503
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 6 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#3277 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1498
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 6 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-headBy 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.
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GLBBQA Spring Fling | 2 | 43 | 0 | top 75% | 2025-04-18 |
| Lakeland Pig Festival | 2 | 10 | 0 | top 39% | 2020-01-24 |
The story so far (18 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
6.2 yrs
2019-01-25 → 2025-04-18
Busiest season
2025
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 5 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
FL
3 of 5 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
2
2 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
4 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 166.11 · weakest Pork Ribs (161.55)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 5 contests
Overall top-10 rate
20%
1 of 5 contests
Master average
664.75
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Backyard average
643.31
out of 360 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
234
161–166 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
1,019
5 mapped stops · furthest 1,019 mi
Schedule strength
1555
average field rating faced — tougher than 41% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$59,000
listed at 4 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 4 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
4.2 yrs
2020-01-24 → 2024-04-19
Power rating
1499
peak 1512 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2018
- First tracked contest Lakeland Pig Festival
- 2019
- 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
- 2025
- Career-best overall score665.6112 GLBBQA Spring Fling
- Career-best single call (Pork)174.2628 GLBBQA Spring Fling
- Most recent contest GLBBQA Spring Fling
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +12 | Lakeland Pig Festival | 2019-01-25 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -6.7 | GLBBQA Spring Fling | 2025-04-18 |
| -3.5 | Lakeland Pig Festival | 2020-01-24 |
| -3.3 | GLBBQA Spring Fling | 2024-04-19 |
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 | 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% | 174.9% | 174.9% |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0% | top 17% | 182.5% | 182.5% |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-04-18 | GLBBQA Spring Fling 🏅 Charlotte, MI | 45 / 56 (665.6112) | 36 (169.7028) | 49 (161.7028) | 13 (174.2628) | 47 (159.9428) |
| 2024-04-19 | GLBBQA Spring Fling 🏅 Charlotte, MI | 43 / 62 (663.8856) | 33 (169.6800) | 41 (165.1084) | 35 (169.6800) | 51 (159.4172) |
| 2020-01-24 | Lakeland Pig Festival 🏅 Lakeland, FL | 32 / 53 (629.5312) | 31 (158.7884) | 32 (157.1200) | 39 (148.5144) | 12 (165.1084) |
| 2019-01-25 | Lakeland Pig Festival 🏅 Lakeland, FL | 10 / 58 (657.0856) | 18 (166.2628) | 25 (162.2628) | 20 (161.7144) | 11 (166.8456) |
| 2018-01-26 | Lakeland Pig Festival Lakeland, FL | — | — | — | — | — |
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 ↗ | Master | #1148 (60 pts) | #1221 (60 pts) | #1293 (60 pts) | #935 (120 pts) | #1190 (60 pts) |