They almost always walk
63%
of contests with a top-10 call
A call in 5 of 8 contests
A top-10 category call in 63% of their 8 contests — they get to the stage more often than not.
LEON BBQ TEAM
LEON BBQ TEAM is a competition barbecue team with 8 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2021 and 2023. Their best overall finish is 5th of 10 at the TORO in Dante's Hell Competition (2022). They finished #1048 in the 2021 Master Series Team of the Year standings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1493
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 21 invitational or side-series contest not counted
Contests
8
in the data
First seen
Oct 30, 2021
latest Oct 13, 2023 · 2 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
1
1 podium
Overall top-10s
1
13% of 8 contests
Avg finish
top 83%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
63%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±8.42
spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 163.90 · weakest Chicken (156.84)
Road miles
9,943
across 8 mapped stops · furthest 4,943 mi
Master avg
646.61 / 720
3 Master contests · 0 GCs
Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to LEON BBQ TEAM, each with one reason worth a look.
LEON BBQ TEAM 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 138 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#3,503 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1493
Fewer contests behind them than LEON BBQ TEAM has cooked, 5 to 8, which makes theirs the less settled rating of the two.
⚔ Compare careers#3,501 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1503
Level with LEON BBQ TEAM on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#3,518 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1493
They were already cooking in 2014, 7 years before LEON BBQ TEAM's first contest.
⚔ Compare careers#3,491 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1504
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 5 years before LEON BBQ TEAM's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#3,494 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1513
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 6 years before LEON BBQ TEAM's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#3,487 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1511
Their last contest in the data was back in 2016, 7 years before LEON BBQ TEAM'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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 165.7028 | 150.2284 | 156.84 | top 87% |
| Pork Ribs | 7 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 170.8572 | 153.0628 | 163.90 | top 59% |
| Pork | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 163.4284 | 158.8572 | 161.50 | top 92% |
| Brisket | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 176.0228 | 142.8000 | 162.65 | top 56% |
“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 field size and state
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 2 | 0 | top 75% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 98% |
More numbers
Busiest season
2024
4 contests
Contests a season
2
across 4 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
TN
1 of 8 contests
Contests visited
3
a different one every time
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
7 entries · 0 wins · 5 calls
Opponents faced
95
finished ahead 7 times, behind 92
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20241 milestone
- Most recent contest The War of Barbeque (ONE MEAT CHICKEN)
20225 milestones
- First category win (Brisket) TORO in Dante's Hell Competition
- First overall top-10 TORO in Dante's Hell Competition
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score656.5832 TORO in Dante's Hell Competition
- Career-best overall score656.5832 TORO in Dante's Hell Competition
- Career-best single call (Brisket)176.0228 TORO in Dante's Hell Competition
20212 milestones
- First tracked contest Country Road & BBQ Contest-Day 2
- First call Country Road & BBQ Contest-Day 2
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | — | — | — |
| 2023 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 98% | 89.9% | 89.9% |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 100% | top 50% | 91.2% | 91.2% |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 100% | 88.3% | 88.3% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 2024 | The War of Barbeque (ONE MEAT CHICKEN) Peschiera del Garda | — | 21 (152.5828) | — | — | — |
| Jun 15, 2024 | The War of Barbeque (ONE MEAT RIBS) Peschiera del Garda | — | — | 23 (153.0628) | — | — |
| Apr 6, 2024 | "Smokin' Ribs Showdown" (ONE MEAT RIBS) #1 Brescia | — | — | 10 (166.8344) | — | — |
| Apr 6, 2024 | "Smokin' Ribs Showdown" (ONE MEAT RIBS) #2 Brescia | — | — | 6 (170.8572) | — | — |
| Oct 13, 2023 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitational Barbecue (Competitor's Series) (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) unrated Lynchburg, TN | 79 / 81 (647.2568) | 81 (150.2284) | 70 (165.6800) | 77 (162.2284) | 46 (169.1200) |
| Jul 1, 2023 | The War of Barbeque (ONE MEAT RIBS) Isola della Scala (VR) | — | — | 10 (163.9772) | — | — |
| Oct 8, 2022 | TORO in Dante's Hell Competition Pratovecchio Stia | 5 / 10 (656.5832) | 7 (158.8572) | 5 (162.8460) | 8 (158.8572) | 1 (176.0228) |
| Oct 30, 2021 | Country Road & BBQ Contest-Day 2 Catigliano, Vicenza | 11 / 11 (635.9884) | 10 (165.7028) | 10 (164.0572) | 11 (163.4284) | 11 (142.8000) |
An unrated contest — an invitational, or a Competitor or Kosher Series board — is in the record but doesn’t move the power rating.