Signature meat
40%
chicken entries won
2 wins from 5 entries
When chicken is on the table, watch out — they've won it in 40% of their entries (2 of 5).
- best 170.3428
- average 169.05
- 5 calls
Ferg A Que
Ferg A Que is a competition barbecue team with 5 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record in 2021. They have won 1 Grand Championship, at the Camp High Hopes Rib Fest (BACKYARD ONLY) (). Also listed in KCBS results as “Ferg-A-Que”.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1503
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 1
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
Jun 19, 2021
latest Jun 19, 2021
Grand champs
1
0 reserve · wins it all 20% of the time
Category wins
3
7 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
40% of 5 contests
Best top-10 run
2
straight overall top-10s, still running
Avg finish
top 26%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 169.05 · weakest Pork Ribs (162.28)
Road miles
0
across 4 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$3,500
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
Backyard avg
329.18 / 360
2 Backyard contests · 1 GC
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 ↗ | Backyard | — | #127 (222 pts) | #193 (122 pts) | — | — |
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to Ferg A Que, each with one reason worth a look.
Ferg A Que 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 124 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#3,106 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 14%
- Peak
- 1503
Careers of much the same size, 7 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#3,105 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1511
They were already cooking in 2013, 8 years before Ferg A Que's first contest.
⚔ Compare careers#3,138 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1507
Level with Ferg A Que on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#3,116 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1506
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#3,135 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 4 years before Ferg A Que's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#3,127 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1503
Their last contest in the data was back in 2016, 5 years before Ferg A Que'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 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 170.3428 | 167.4400 | 169.05 | top 10% |
| Pork Ribs | 5 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 179.4400 | 153.6800 | 162.28 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 1 | top 7% |
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 45% |
Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Camp High Hopes Rib Fest (BACKYARD ONLY) | 2 | 1 | 1 | top 26% | Jun 19, 2021 |
More numbers
Contests a season
1
across 5 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
IA
5 of 5 contests
Contests visited
1
1 of them more than once
Opponents faced
30
finished ahead 25 times, behind 9
Longest layoff
3 yrs
Jun 22, 2018 → Jun 19, 2021
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20211 milestone
- Most recent contest Camp High Hopes Rib Fest (BACKYARD ONLY)
20171 milestone
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)179.4400 Rib Fest 2017 (BACKYARD)
—8 milestones
- First tracked contest Camp High Hopes Rib Fest (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First call Camp High Hopes Rib Fest (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First category win (Chicken) Camp High Hopes Rib Fest (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall top-10 Camp High Hopes Rib Fest (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall podium Camp High Hopes Rib Fest (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First Grand Championship Camp High Hopes Rib Fest (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score331.4744 Camp High Hopes Rib Fest (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best overall score331.4744 Camp High Hopes Rib Fest (BACKYARD ONLY)
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 100% | top 7% | 92.1% | 92.1% |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 45% | 90.8% | 90.8% |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | — | — | — |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 100% | — | — | — |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 100% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 2021 | Camp High Hopes Rib Fest (BACKYARD ONLY) Sioux City, IA | 10 / 22 (326.8800) | 3 (167.4400) | 10 (159.4400) | — | — |
| Jun 22, 2018 | Camp High Hopes Rib Fest (BACKYARD ONLY) Sioux City, IA | — | 2 (169.7028) | 10 (154.8572) | — | — |
| Jun 23, 2017 | Rib Fest 2017 (BACKYARD) Sioux, IA | — | 3 (170.3428) | 1 (179.4400) | — | — |
| Jun 24, 2016 | Ribfest (BACKYARD) Sioux City, IA | — | 1 (170.2972) | 10 (153.6800) | — | — |
| — | Camp High Hopes Rib Fest (BACKYARD ONLY) Sioux City, IA | 1 / 14 (331.4744) | 1 (167.4744) | 3 (164) | — | — |