High-water mark
341.0856
career-best overall
94.7% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 341.0856 at Barbeque on the Bow Festival — 94.7% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- Sep 2, 2023
Cameron Q
Cameron Q is a competition barbecue team with 6 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2022 and 2023. Their best overall finish is 4th of 40 at the Barbeque on the Bow Festival (2023). Also listed in KCBS results as “CameronQ”.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1524
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 22 invitational or side-series contests not counted
Contests
6
in the data
First seen
Sep 3, 2022
latest Sep 2, 2023 · 1 year on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
1
2 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
33% of 6 contests
Avg finish
top 40%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
33%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±13.37
spread of their Backyard overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 164.14 · weakest Chicken (163.77)
Road miles
2,608
across 6 mapped stops · furthest 1,193 mi
Backyard avg
327.91 / 360
3 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
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)
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 ↗ | Backyard | — | #383 (54 pts) | #390 (54 pts) | — | — |
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to Cameron Q, each with one reason worth a look.
Cameron Q 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 98 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#2,385 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1535
Their last contest in the data was back in 2015, 8 years before Cameron Q's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#2,395 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1524
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#2,381 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1524
They were already cooking in 2013, 9 years before Cameron Q's first contest.
⚔ Compare careers#2,379 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1524
Level with Cameron Q on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#2,400 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 50%
- Peak
- 1541
Careers of much the same size, 6 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#2,382 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1530
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 5 years before Cameron Q'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 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 171.4172 | 159.3712 | 163.77 | top 41% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 173.7028 | 149.0628 | 164.14 | top 38% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 2 | 0 | top 56% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 10% |
More numbers
Busiest season
2023
5 contests
Contests a season
3
across 2 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
AB
4 of 6 contests · 2 states and provinces in all
Contests visited
3
a different one every time
Opponents faced
95
finished ahead 82 times, behind 40
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20232 milestones
- Career-best overall score341.0856 Barbeque on the Bow Festival
- Most recent contest Barbeque on the Bow Festival
20226 milestones
- First tracked contest Barbeque on the Bow
- First call Barbeque on the Bow
- First category win (Pork Ribs) Barbeque on the Bow
- First overall top-10 Barbeque on the Bow
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score333.0740 Barbeque on the Bow
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)173.7028 Barbeque on the Bow
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 20% | top 55% | 94.7% | 90.4% |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 100% | top 11% | 92.5% | 92.5% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 2023 | Barbeque on the Bow Festival Calgary, AB | 4 / 40 (341.0856) | 2 (171.4172) | 5 (169.6684) | — | — |
| Aug 12, 2023 | 5th Annual KCBS World Invitational - BACKYARD SERIES INVITATIONAL unrated Mayetta, KS | 29 / 29 (309.5768) | 28 (160.5140) | 29 (149.0628) | — | — |
| Aug 11, 2023 | 5th Annual KCBS World Invitational - OPEN unrated Mayetta, KS | — | — | — | — | — |
| Aug 5, 2023 | Didsbury Lions BBQ Didsbury, AB | — | — | — | — | — |
| Jun 3, 2023 | Small Town Smoke Down Bassano, AB | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sep 3, 2022 | Barbeque on the Bow Calgary, AB | 4 / 36 (333.0740) | 8 (159.3712) | 1 (173.7028) | — | — |
An unrated contest — an invitational, or a Competitor or Kosher Series board — is in the record but doesn’t move the power rating.