High-water mark
675.9200
career-best overall
93.9% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 675.9200 at Smoke on the Shores BBQ Championship — 93.9% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- Mar 14, 2025
BBQ To The Rescue
BBQ To The Rescue is a competition barbecue team with 3 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2024 and 2025. Their best overall finish is 8th of 16 at the Buds Blues and BBQ (2024). They finished #280 in the 2024 Backyard Series Team of the Year standings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1498
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 2
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
Sep 13, 2024
latest Mar 14, 2025
Overall top-10s
1
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 57%
overall standings
Walk rate
33%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 168.85 · weakest Pork (164.53)
Road miles
388
across 3 mapped stops · furthest 388 mi
Purse competed for
$19K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
Master avg
675.92 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
322.86 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 0 GCs
These overall scores sit on different scales (Master 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.
Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
By meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 176 | 161.7028 | 168.85 | top 35% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 176.5600 | 161.1544 | 168.38 | top 47% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164.5256 | 164.5256 | 164.53 | top 87% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.9772 | 167.9772 | 167.98 | top 58% |
“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.
More numbers
Busiest season
2025
2 contests
Contests a season
1.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
TN
2 of 3 contests · 2 states in all
Contests visited
2
a different one every time
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
3 entries · 0 wins · 1 call
Opponents faced
170
finished ahead 46 times, behind 125
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20254 milestones
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score675.9200 Smoke on the Shores BBQ Championship
- Career-best overall score675.9200 Smoke on the Shores BBQ Championship
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)176.5600 Smoke on the Shores BBQ Championship (ONE MEAT RIBS)
- Most recent contest Smoke on the Shores BBQ Championship
20243 milestones
- First tracked contest Buds Blues and BBQ
- First call Buds Blues and BBQ
- First overall top-10 Buds Blues and BBQ
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 2025 | Smoke on the Shores BBQ Championship 🏅 Lebanon, TN | 64 / 100 (675.9200) | 20 (176) | 75 (167.4172) | 87 (164.5256) | 58 (167.9772) |
| Mar 14, 2025 | Smoke on the Shores BBQ Championship (ONE MEAT RIBS) Lebanon, TN | — | — | 11 (176.5600) | — | — |
| Sep 13, 2024 | Buds Blues and BBQ 🏅 Columbia, MO | 8 / 16 (322.8572) | 8 (161.7028) | 8 (161.1544) | — | — |