The comeback
3 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 3 years, then back at Barbeque on the Bow Festival (2024-08-31).
- last seen 2021-09-10
- back 2024-08-31
PEW PEW BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1507
peak 1507 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
6
in the data
First seen
2021-09-10
latest 2021-09-10
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
1
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 6 contests
Avg finish
top 28%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
33%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 164.56 · weakest Chicken (161.69)
Road miles
2,205
mi across 6 mapped stops · furthest 1353 mi
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
314.83 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Storylines (1 found in this team's record)
Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The nearest teams in the power rankings, with a different reason on each card — six teams on one rating are rarely on it for the same reason. Rating decides who makes the list; where teams tie on it, the ones this team has actually cooked against come first, then teams at a similar point in their own career. KCBS doesn’t publish where a team is from, so nothing here is inferred from geography.
PEW PEW BBQ has 1 rated contest — short of the five it takes to earn a power ranking — so this rating has barely moved off the 1500 every team starts on and 110 rated teams sit within a point of it. Read the list as the nearest company at a number nobody here has moved far from, not as a verdict on who this team belongs with.
#2955 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#2937 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1508
No shared contest yet.
Level with PEW PEW BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2967 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#2946 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1511
No shared contest yet.
Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2021.
⚔ Head-to-head#2952 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#2966 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
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.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 173.1084 | 150.2744 | 161.69 | top 19% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 164.5600 | 164.5600 | 164.56 | top 16% |
| Pork | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
| Brisket | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
“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.
The story so far (15 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0 yrs
2021-09-10 → 2021-09-10
Busiest season
2025
3 contests
Contests a season
1.5
across 4 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
AB
5 of 6 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
1
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 1 win · 2 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 164.56 · weakest Chicken (161.69)
Walk rate
33%
a top-10 call in 2 of 6 contests
Overall top-10 rate
17%
1 of 6 contests
Backyard average
314.83
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
36
23–12 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
2,205
6 mapped stops · furthest 1,353 mi
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
3 yrs
2021-09-10 → 2024-08-31
Power rating
1507
peak 1507 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2021
- 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
- 2025
- First category win (Chicken) Embers and Ice Pitmaster Championship
- Career-best single call (Chicken)173.1084 Embers and Ice Pitmaster Championship
- 2026
- Most recent contest Small Town Smoke Down
Category scores over time
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 | 1 | 33% | — | — | — |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-30 | Small Town Smoke Down Bassano, AB | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2025-09-06 | Big Smoke Bonnyville Bonnyville, AB | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2025-08-30 | Barbeque on the Bow Festival Calgary, AB | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2025-05-24 | Embers and Ice Pitmaster Championship Calmar, AB | — | 1 (173.1084) | — | — | — |
| 2024-08-31 | Barbeque on the Bow Festival Calgary, AB | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2021-09-10 | Silver Lake Sand Dunes BBQ Competition 🏅 Mears, MI | 7 / 25 (314.8344) | 9 (150.2744) | 4 (164.5600) | — | — |