The comeback
7.7 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 7.7 years, then back at Sip & Swine BBQ Festival (2025-03-07).
- last seen 2017-07-08
- back 2025-03-07
Lakeside BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1484
peak 1484 · rated over 3 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2013-04-19
latest 2025-03-07
Best ToY finish
#362
Backyard 2025
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 73%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 160.19 · weakest Brisket (153.41)
Road miles
679
mi across 3 mapped stops · furthest 592 mi
Schedule strength
54%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1568)
Purse competed for
$12K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Master avg
619.66 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
318.27 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 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 (1 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.
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.
Lakeside BBQ has 3 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 142 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.
#3954 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#3946 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1484
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2022, 3 years before Lakeside BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3935 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1484
No shared contest yet.
Level with Lakeside BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3932 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1509
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 6 years after Lakeside BBQ did, first appearing in 2019.
⚔ Head-to-head#3923 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1485
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2020, 5 years before Lakeside BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3944 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1484
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 6 years before Lakeside 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 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.8800 | 149.1428 | 160.19 | top 64% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.8000 | 151.3944 | 155.02 | top 70% |
| Pork | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.0972 | 149.7140 | 155.41 | top 74% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.2400 | 148.5712 | 153.41 | top 79% |
“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 state / province
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| MO | 2 | 0 | top 85% |
| GA | 1 | 0 | top 49% |
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 90% |
| Large (40+) | 2 | 0 | top 64% |
The story so far (18 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
11.9 yrs
2013-04-19 → 2025-03-07
Busiest season
2025
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 3 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
MO
2 of 3 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
3
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
3 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 160.19 · weakest Brisket (153.41)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 3 contests
Master average
619.66
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Backyard average
318.27
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
164
46–121 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
679
3 mapped stops · furthest 592 mi
Schedule strength
1568
average field rating faced — tougher than 54% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$12,100
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
7.7 yrs
2017-07-08 → 2025-03-07
Power rating
1484
peak 1484 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2013
- First tracked contest Rock'n Ribs BBQ Festival
- Peak power rating (1491) Rock'n Ribs BBQ Festival
- 2017
- Career-best overall score637.0288 Red White Blue and Que Presented by Lucas Oil Speedway
- 2025
- Career-best single call (Chicken)166.8800 Sip & Swine BBQ Festival
- Most recent contest Sip & Swine BBQ Festival
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +0.7 | Sip & Swine BBQ Festival | 2025-03-07 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -9.1 | Rock'n Ribs BBQ Festival | 2013-04-19 |
| -7.6 | Red White Blue and Que Presented by Lucas Oil Speedway | 2017-07-08 |
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 49% | 88.4% | 88.4% |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 90% | 88.5% | 88.5% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 79% | 83.7% | 83.7% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-03-07 | Sip & Swine BBQ Festival 🏅 Lawrenceville, GA | 22 / 45 (318.2744) | 17 (166.8800) | 25 (151.3944) | 18 (161.0972) | — |
| 2017-07-08 | Red White Blue and Que Presented by Lucas Oil Speedway Wheatland, MO | 28 / 31 (637.0288) | 24 (164.5604) | 28 (158.8000) | 29 (155.4284) | 26 (158.2400) |
| 2013-04-19 | Rock'n Ribs BBQ Festival Springfield, MO | 54 / 68 (602.2850) | 53 (149.1428) | 43 (154.8570) | 60 (149.7140) | 50 (148.5712) |
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 | #362 (68 pts) | #336 (93 pts) | #418 (53 pts) | — | — |