High-water mark
674.8348
career-best overall
93.7% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 674.8348 at American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest — 93.7% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- Sep 30, 2026
Pickles BBQ
Pickles BBQ is a competition barbecue team with 6 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2024 and 2026. Their best overall finish is 121st of 158 at the American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest (2026). They finished #1182 in the 2024 Master Series Team of the Year standings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1488
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 22 invitational or side-series contests not counted
Contests
6
in the data
First seen
Oct 30, 2024
latest Sep 30, 2026 · 1.9 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 84%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±15.90
spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 167.40 · weakest Pork (159.98)
Road miles
12
across 6 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$227K
listed at 6 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 1 state-championship entry
Master avg
658.64 / 720
4 Master contests · 0 GCs
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 ↗ | Master | #1182 (60 pts) | #1242 (60 pts) | #1317 (60 pts) | #1231 (60 pts) | #1204 (60 pts) |
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to Pickles BBQ, each with one reason worth a look.
Pickles BBQ has 2 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.
#3,774 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1509
0–1 in 1 shared contest (0% to Pickles BBQ)
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Pickles BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head#3,748 of the rated field
- Contests
- 25
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 8%
- Peak
- 1521
0–1 in 1 shared contest (0% to Pickles BBQ)
They've been 1521 at their best, 33 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-head#3,760 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1504
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#3,778 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1503
Their last contest in the data was back in 2023, 3 years before Pickles BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#3,785 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1502
They were already cooking in 2017, 7 years before Pickles BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Compare careers#3,776 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1505
Level with Pickles BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careersBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 178.8572 | 159.9428 | 167.40 | top 63% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 173.7028 | 145.0972 | 164.13 | top 67% |
| Pork | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.7144 | 157.0972 | 159.98 | top 89% |
| Brisket | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 175.4172 | 156.5256 | 167.13 | 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.
More numbers
Contests a season
3
across 2 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
KS
6 of 6 contests
Contests visited
4
a different one every time
Opponents faced
587
finished ahead 192 times, behind 935
Longest layoff
1.9 yrs
Oct 30, 2024 → Sep 30, 2026
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20263 milestones
- Career-best overall score674.8348 American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest
- Career-best single call (Chicken)178.8572 American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest
- Most recent contest American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Sides
20242 milestones
- First tracked contest American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score661.1084 American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 75% | 93.7% | 93.1% |
| 2024 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 92% | 91.8% | 89.8% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 30, 2026 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Sides Kansas City, KS | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sep 30, 2026 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest unrated Kansas City, KS | 121 / 158 (674.8348) | 109 (168.5488) | 109 (169.1544) | 148 (161.7144) | 31 (175.4172) |
| Sep 30, 2026 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest Kansas City, KS | 266 / 360 (666.1828) | 14 (178.8572) | 110 (173.7028) | 324 (157.0972) | 319 (156.5256) |
| Oct 30, 2024 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Sides Kansas City, KS | — | — | — | — | — |
| Oct 30, 2024 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 388 / 444 (632.4456) | 353 (162.2628) | 433 (145.0972) | 347 (161.6684) | 297 (163.4172) |
| Oct 30, 2024 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest unrated Kansas City, KS | 164 / 169 (661.1084) | 166 (159.9428) | 121 (168.5600) | 161 (159.4400) | 56 (173.1656) |
An unrated contest — an invitational, or a Competitor or Kosher Series board — is in the record but doesn’t move the power rating.