The comeback
3 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 3 years, then back at Barbeque on the Bow Festival (Aug 31, 2024).
- last seen Sep 10, 2021
- back Aug 31, 2024
PEW PEW BBQ
PEW PEW BBQ is a competition barbecue team with 6 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record in 2021. Their best overall finish is 7th of 25 at the Silver Lake Sand Dunes BBQ Competition (2021).
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1507
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 1
Contests
6
in the data
First seen
Sep 10, 2021
latest Sep 10, 2021
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
17% of 6 contests
Avg finish
top 28%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
17%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 164.56 · weakest Chicken (150.27)
Road miles
2,205
across 6 mapped stops · furthest 1,353 mi
State championships
0 🏅
won from 1 state-championship entry
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
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PEW PEW BBQ has 1 rated contest, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 111 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#2,977 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1507
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
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- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1508
Level with PEW PEW BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#2,988 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1506
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#2,968 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1511
Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2021.
⚔ Compare careers#2,970 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#2,980 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1506
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 3 years before PEW PEW BBQ'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 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 150.2744 | 150.2744 | 150.27 | top 36% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 164.5600 | 164.5600 | 164.56 | top 16% |
“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
Busiest season
2025
3 contests
Contests a season
1.5
across 4 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
AB
5 of 6 contests · 2 states and provinces in all
Contests visited
1
a different one every time
Opponents faced
36
finished ahead 23 times, behind 12
Longest layoff
3 yrs
Sep 10, 2021 → Aug 31, 2024
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20261 milestone
- Most recent contest Small Town Smoke Down
20215 milestones
- First tracked contest Silver Lake Sand Dunes BBQ Competition
- First call Silver Lake Sand Dunes BBQ Competition
- First overall top-10 Silver Lake Sand Dunes BBQ Competition
- Career-best overall score314.8344 Silver Lake Sand Dunes BBQ Competition
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)164.5600 Silver Lake Sand Dunes BBQ Competition
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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2025 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 28% | 87.5% | 87.5% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 2026 | Small Town Smoke Down Bassano, AB | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sep 6, 2025 | Big Smoke Bonnyville Bonnyville, AB | — | — | — | — | — |
| Aug 30, 2025 | Barbeque on the Bow Festival Calgary, AB | — | — | — | — | — |
| May 24, 2025 | Embers and Ice Pitmaster Championship Calmar, AB | — | — | — | — | — |
| Aug 31, 2024 | Barbeque on the Bow Festival Calgary, AB | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sep 10, 2021 | Silver Lake Sand Dunes BBQ Competition 🏅 Mears, MI | 7 / 25 (314.8344) | 9 (150.2744) | 4 (164.5600) | — | — |