A tough matchup
4–0
behind in the head-to-head
Barely Sober BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings
Barely Sober BBQ has come out ahead in 4 of their 4 shared contests.
Gary's Last Place Chicken
Gary's Last Place Chicken is a competition barbecue team with 6 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2019 and 2025. Their best overall finish is 19th of 61 at the Lakeland Pig Festival (2024).
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1493
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 4
Contests
6
in the data
First seen
Jan 25, 2019
latest Jan 24, 2025 · 6 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
0% of 6 contests
Avg finish
top 65%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
33%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 157.97 · weakest Chicken (155.23)
Road miles
13
across 6 mapped stops
Schedule strength
39%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1551)
Purse competed for
$100K
listed at 4 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 4 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
325.36 / 360
2 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
Backyard (4-meat) avg
612.71 / 720
2 Backyard (4-meat) contests · 0 GCs
These overall scores sit on different scales (Backyard out of 360, 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.
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to Gary's Last Place Chicken, each with one reason worth a look.
Gary's Last Place Chicken 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 135 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#3,532 of the rated field
- Contests
- 8
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 13%
- Peak
- 1501
0–1 in 1 shared contest (0% to Gary's Last Place Chicken)
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Gary's Last Place Chicken has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head#3,543 of the rated field
- Contests
- 10
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1504
1–3 in 4 shared contests (25% to Gary's Last Place Chicken)
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 10 contests to 6.
⚔ Head-to-head#3,550 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1492
They turned up 6 years after Gary's Last Place Chicken did, first appearing in 2025.
⚔ Compare careers#3,513 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1493
Level with Gary's Last Place Chicken on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#3,511 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1503
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#3,527 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1493
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 4 years before Gary's Last Place Chicken'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 | 160.5144 | 145.6684 | 155.23 | top 77% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 173.1200 | 149.7144 | 157.97 | top 63% |
| Pork | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 169.6684 | 140.0228 | 157.69 | top 61% |
| Brisket | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.5256 | 153.1312 | 156.53 | top 44% |
“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.
Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lakeland Pig Festival | 4 | 19 | 0 | top 65% | Jan 24, 2025 |
More numbers
Contests a season
1
across 6 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
FL
6 of 6 contests
Contests visited
1
1 of them more than once
Opponents faced
290
finished ahead 166 times, behind 254
Longest layoff
4 yrs
Jan 30, 2015 → Jan 25, 2019
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20251 milestone
- Most recent contest Lakeland Pig Festival
20243 milestones
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score333.0744 Lakeland Pig Festival
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)173.1200 Lakeland Pig Festival
- Peak power rating (1504) Lakeland Pig Festival
20222 milestones
- First call Lakeland Pig Festival
- Career-best overall score636.8908 Lakeland Pig Festival
20141 milestone
- First tracked contest The Tiger Town Pig Festival
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +8.4 | Lakeland Pig Festival | Jan 26, 2024 |
| +5.6 | Lakeland Pig Festival | Jan 28, 2022 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -11.8 | Lakeland Pig Festival | Jan 24, 2025 |
| -9.7 | Lakeland Pig Festival | Jan 25, 2019 |
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 108% | 88.2% | 88.2% |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 31% | 92.5% | 92.5% |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 37% | 88.5% | 88.5% |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 83% | 81.7% | 81.7% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 24, 2025 | Lakeland Pig Festival 🏅 Lakeland, FL | 43 / 40 (317.6460) | 40 (160.5144) | 45 (157.1316) | 33 (162.2400) | — |
| Jan 26, 2024 | Lakeland Pig Festival 🏅 Lakeland, FL | 19 / 61 (333.0744) | 43 (159.9544) | 5 (173.1200) | 39 (158.8112) | 32 (155.9428) |
| Jan 28, 2022 | Lakeland Pig Festival 🏅 Lakeland, FL | 22 / 60 (636.8908) | 29 (154.7884) | 30 (151.9084) | 6 (169.6684) | 16 (160.5256) |
| Jan 25, 2019 | Lakeland Pig Festival 🏅 Lakeland, FL | 48 / 58 (588.5368) | 51 (145.6684) | 46 (149.7144) | 51 (140.0228) | 31 (153.1312) |
| Jan 30, 2015 | Lakeland Pig Festival Lakeland, FL | — | — | — | — | — |
| Jan 23, 2014 | The Tiger Town Pig Festival Lakeland, FL | — | — | — | — | — |