FROZEN TOQUE BBQ

FROZEN TOQUE BBQ is a competition barbecue team with 31 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2017 and 2022. They have won 2 Grand Championships, most recently at the Didsbury Lions BBQ (2021). They are ranked #846 of 6,476 teams in the KCBS power rankings.

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At a glance (the record in numbers)

Power ranking

#846

of 6,476 rated · rankings

Rating

1622

peak 1624 · rated over 28 contests2 invitational or side-series contests not counted

Contests

in the data

First seen

Apr 8, 2017

latest Oct 14, 2022 · 5.5 years on the trail

Best ToY finish

#258

Master 2019 · every season

Grand champs

0 reserve · wins it all 6% of the time

Category wins

19 podiums

Overall top-10s

61% of 31 contests

Best top-10 run

straight overall top-10s

Avg finish

top 37%

overall standings

Best overall

684.5716 / 720

Master · 40th American Royal World Series of Barbecue- OPEN CONTEST

Perfect 180s

Current form

669.54 ▲

last 5 Master vs avg 653.41 (+16.13)

Walk rate

74%

contests with a top-10 call

Best single call

178.8800

Pork Ribs · Bare Bones BBQ Cookoff

Consistency

±17.32

spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)

Strongest meat

Pork

avg 166.14 · weakest Brisket (159.46)

Road miles

13,516

across 31 mapped stops · furthest 1,778 mi

Schedule strength

31%

of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1542)

Purse competed for

$105K

listed at 4 contests — purses, not winnings

State championships

0 🏅

won from 4 state-championship entries

Master avg

653.41 / 720

30 Master contests · 2 GCs

Storylines (18 found in their record)

Each card leads with the number behind the story, straight from their results.

Against the odds

24-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings

The ratings favoured the top seed the other 76 times in 100

Their Grand Championship at Battle River BBQ Showdown (Aug 10, 2019) came as the ratings underdog — roughly a 24-in-100 shot against the field's top-rated team, SMELLAQUE.

Happy hunting ground

1× Grand Championship here

Didsbury Lions BBQ is their spot: 1 Grand Championship in 2 visits.

2 visits
best finish 1st
average top 12%

Multi-meat days

3 contests with 2+ category wins

They've won two or more meats on the same day 3 times — the best of them 2 category wins at Didsbury Lions BBQ (Sep 3, 2021).

Pork 1st
Brisket 1st

They almost always walk

74% of contests with a top-10 call

A call in 23 of 31 contests

A top-10 category call in 74% of their 31 contests — they get to the stage more often than not.

High-water mark

684.5716 career-best overall

95.1% of a perfect 720

Their best day on record: 684.5716 at 40th American Royal World Series of Barbecue- OPEN CONTEST — 95.1% of a perfect 720.

Master
Sep 12, 2019

The one to beat

3× one call ahead of them

ROCKY MOUNTAIN SMOKERS has finished one call ahead of FROZEN TOQUE BBQ 3 times — their closest competition in the data.

Their season

2021 1 Grand Championship

2021 was the year it came together: 3 contests, 1 Grand Championship and 2 category wins, at an average finish in the top 11%.

3 contests
3 overall top-10s
2 category wins
average top 11%

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A tough matchup

18–4 behind in the head-to-head

ARROWHEAD NORTH BBQ ahead in 82% of their meetings

ARROWHEAD NORTH BBQ has come out ahead in 18 of their 22 shared contests.

The weak link

−6.7 points behind their best meat

Brisket is where the weekend gets away from them — it averages 6.68 points below their pork, and turns into a call 37% of the time against 54%.

Brisket avg 159.46
Pork avg 166.14
11 calls in 30 entries

The drought

8 contests since the last title

Their last Grand Championship came at Didsbury Lions BBQ on Sep 3, 2021 — 8 contests and 5.1 years ago.

last GC Sep 3, 2021
5.1 years ago

A strong matchup

13–0 ahead in the head-to-head

Ahead in 100% of their meetings

They've finished ahead of Rack Addicts BBQ Team in 13 of their 13 shared contests.

The comeback

1.6 yrs off the trail, then back

Off the trail for 1.6 years, then back at Porkapalooza BBQ Festival (Aug 14, 2021).

last seen Jan 17, 2020
back Aug 14, 2021

Pork nemesis

12 of 20 shared pork entries lost

ARROWHEAD NORTH BBQ ahead 60% of the time

Even in their strongest meat, ARROWHEAD NORTH BBQ has out-cooked them in 12 of 20 shared pork entries.

Built for the big stage

Top 40% average finish in large fields

Field size changes the story: they average a top 40% finish in large fields against top 50% in small ones.

Large (40+): top 40% (10)
Small (<20 teams): top 50% (7)

Looking over their shoulder

3× one call behind them

ROCKY MOUNTAIN SMOKERS has landed one call behind them 3 times.

Boom or bust

±11.42% swing around their own average

Their overall swings ±11.42% of a perfect score around its own average — when it lands they're dangerous, and when it doesn't the weekend is gone by lunch.

averages 88.7% of a perfect score
best 95.1%

An August team

Top 23% average finish in August

Something about August: average finish in the top 23% across 6 contests, versus top 37% the rest of the year.

6 August contests
top 37% the rest of the year

The long haul

13,516 road miles between contests

Contest to contest, they've covered roughly 13,516 miles across 31 mapped stops — the longest single trip being 1,778 miles to Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitational Barbecue (Competitor's Series) (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY).

31 mapped stops
furthest 1,778 mi

In the record book (on 1 all-time board)

Where this team sits in the all-time KCBS record book. A gold line is a record they hold outright; the rest are boards they are on.

#8 💪 Widest championship margin 26.9260 points clear of the runner-up · over ROCKY MOUNTAIN SMOKERS · Aug 10, 2019

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
2022 ↗	Master	#391 (574 pts)	#447 (509 pts)	#412 (619 pts)	#418 (549 pts)	#424 (544 pts)
2021 ↗	Master	#285 (680 pts)	#570 (305 pts)	#482 (420 pts)	#273 (755 pts)	#355 (575 pts)
2020 ↗	Master	#856 (60 pts)	#896 (60 pts)	#913 (60 pts)	#838 (85 pts)	#883 (60 pts)
2019 ↗	Master	#258 (1,105 pts)	#223 (1,215 pts)	#407 (830 pts)	#217 (1,230 pts)	#327 (970 pts)
2018 ↗	Master	#570 (623 pts)	#728 (488 pts)	#584 (633 pts)	#606 (618 pts)	#564 (643 pts)
2017 ↗	Master	#447 (849 pts)	#301 (1,154 pts)	#386 (984 pts)	#357 (1,039 pts)	#620 (639 pts)

Overall rank by season

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Salt City Barbecue

#844 of the rated field

1622 power rating

Contests: 19
GCs: 1
Top-10s: 53%
Peak: 1629

0–1 in 1 shared contest (0% to FROZEN TOQUE BBQ)

One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team FROZEN TOQUE BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.

rated over 16 contests
last seen Sep 9, 2022

⚔ Head-to-head

Wabash BBQ

#848 of the rated field

1622 power rating

Contests: 100
GCs: 1
Top-10s: 25%
Peak: 1669

0–2 in 2 shared contests (0% to FROZEN TOQUE BBQ)

They've been 1669 at their best, 47 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.

rated over 96 contests
last seen Sep 18, 2026

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HOOSIER FAVORITE BBQ

#847 of the rated field

1622 power rating

Contests: 24
GCs: 1
Top-10s: 42%
Peak: 1622

Their last contest in the data was back in 2016, 6 years before FROZEN TOQUE BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.

rated over 23 contests

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PORKYLICIOUS

#845 of the rated field

1622 power rating

Contests: 38
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 18%
Peak: 1622

Careers of much the same size, 38 contests to 31, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.

rated over 38 contests
last seen May 13, 2022

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MOON RIVER BARBEQUE

#849 of the rated field

1622 power rating

Contests: 46
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 22%
Peak: 1630

46 contests and no Grand Championship yet — a rating made of 22% top-10 finishes rather than wins.

rated over 46 contests
last seen Mar 8, 2019

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STEEL CITY BBQ

#857 of the rated field

1621 ▼ 1 power rating

Contests: 33
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 45%
Peak: 1632

1–0 in 1 shared contest (100% to FROZEN TOQUE BBQ)

Level with FROZEN TOQUE BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.

rated over 33 contests
last seen Aug 14, 2020

⚔ Head-to-head

Familiar foes (most-met opponents in overall standings — one meeting per contest)

Opponent	Meetings	Ahead	Behind	Win rate
ARROWHEAD NORTH BBQ	22	4	18	18%	⚔ compare
ROCKY MOUNTAIN SMOKERS	20	11	9	55%	⚔ compare
SMELLAQUE	18	2	16	11%	⚔ compare
Hogparts School of Smokecraft and Brew'ery	14	13	1	93%	⚔ compare
Kreiser Barbecue	14	12	2	86%	⚔ compare
MOTLEY QUE	14	11	3	79%	⚔ compare
THE DEVIL MADE ME Q IT	14	8	6	57%	⚔ compare
YOU NEED A BBQ	14	5	9	36%	⚔ compare
Rack Addicts BBQ Team	13	13	0	100%	⚔ compare
MEAT SWEATS BBQ AB	13	6	7	46%	⚔ compare
GRIZZLY PAW SMOKERS	12	12	0	100%	⚔ compare
BIGG SMOAK BBQ	12	1	11	8%	⚔ compare
Fire BBQ	11	9	2	82%	⚔ compare
403 BBQ CO	10	8	2	80%	⚔ compare
BBQ TEAM NAIT	10	5	5	50%	⚔ compare

By meat

Category	Entries	Calls	Wins	Podiums	Best	Worst	Average	Avg finish
Chicken	30	14	3	5	175.4172	154.8572	165.32	top 42%
Pork Ribs	30	15	1	4	178.8800	139.9544	162.69	top 42%
Pork	28	15	2	6	177.1428	147.8968	166.14	top 33%
Brisket	30	11	2	4	173.7028	138.8116	159.46	top 50%

“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)	7	0	top 50%
Medium (20–39)	13	2	top 29%
Large (40+)	10	0	top 40%

By state / province (where the contests were held)

Where	Contests	GCs	Avg finish
AB	10	2	top 23%
KS	3	0	top 52%
ON	3	0	top 60%
AZ	2	0	top 69%
SK	2	0	top 33%
TN	1	0	top 24%
BC	1	0	top 84%

Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)

Contest	Visits	Best	GCs	Avg finish	Last visit
Porkapalooza BBQ Festival	3	3	0	top 15%	Jun 15, 2019
Didsbury Lions BBQ	2	1	1	top 12%	Aug 27, 2022
Battle River BBQ Showdown	2	1	1	top 21%	Aug 10, 2019
Porkapalooza BBQ Festival	2	3	0	top 24%	May 28, 2022
Slab-O-Rama Barbeque Challenge	2	36	0	top 69%	Jan 17, 2020
BBQ on the Bow	2	6	0	top 27%	Sep 1, 2018
Smoke on the Water (Day 2)	2	9	0	top 58%	Jun 23, 2018

More numbers

Busiest season 2019 8 contests · 1 GC

Contests a season 5.2 across 6 seasons in the data

Most contests held in AB 10 of 31 contests · 7 states and provinces in all

Contests visited 22 7 of them more than once

First title Aug 10, 2019 Battle River BBQ Showdown

Opponents faced 1,081 finished ahead 1,210 times, behind 870

Longest layoff 1.6 yrs Jan 17, 2020 → Aug 14, 2021

Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)

20223 milestones

May 28 25th tracked contest Porkapalooza BBQ Festival
Aug 27 Peak power rating (1624) Didsbury Lions BBQ
Oct 14 Most recent contest Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitational Barbecue (Competitor's Series) (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY)

20195 milestones

Jun 8 First overall podium Bare Bones BBQ Cookoff
Jun 8 First multi-meat day Bare Bones BBQ Cookoff
Jun 8 Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)178.8800 Bare Bones BBQ Cookoff
Aug 10 First Grand Championship Battle River BBQ Showdown
Sep 12 Career-best overall score684.5716 40th American Royal World Series of Barbecue- OPEN CONTEST

20181 milestone

Jun 23 10th tracked contest Smoke on the Water (Day 2)

20175 milestones

Apr 8 First tracked contest Barn Burner BBQ
Apr 8 First call Barn Burner BBQ
Jun 10 First overall top-10 Porkapalooza BBQ Festival
Jun 23 First overall past 90% of a perfect score654.7888 Triple B Festival Day 1
Sep 2 First category win (Pork) BBQ on the Bow

Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)

📈 Biggest rating jumps

Swing	Contest	Date
+14.9	Battle River BBQ Showdown	Aug 10, 2019
+13.2	Porkapalooza BBQ Festival	Jun 15, 2019
+12.8	Bare Bones BBQ Cookoff	Jun 8, 2019
+12.7	BBQ on the Bow	Sep 2, 2017
+12	Didsbury Lions BBQ	Sep 3, 2021

📉 Toughest weekends

Swing	Contest	Date
-9.9	Barn Burner BBQ	Apr 8, 2017
-9.5	Triple B Festival Day 2	Jun 24, 2017
-6.3	Slab-O-Rama Barbeque Challenge	Jan 18, 2019
-3.3	Prairie Dog on the Bow	Sep 1, 2019
-3.2	Slab-O-Rama Barbeque Challenge	Jan 17, 2020

Scores over time (% of a perfect score, averaged over 5 contests — 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)
2022	7	0	2	0	43%	top 42%	94.9%	92.7%
2021	3	1	3	2	100%	top 11%	91.7%	91%
2020	1	0	0	0	0%	top 61%	90.8%	90.8%
2019	8	1	6	5	75%	top 27%	95.1%	92.3%
2018	5	0	4	0	80%	top 42%	90.3%	89%
2017	7	0	4	1	100%	top 50%	90.9%	88.5%

Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)

Date	Event	Overall	Chicken	Ribs	Pork	Brisket
Oct 14, 2022	Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitational Barbecue (Competitor's Series) (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) unrated Lynchburg, TN	20 / 83 (683.3600)	28 (171.9772)	11 (175.4172)	25 (171.9656)	59 (164)
Oct 1, 2022	American Royal World Series of Barbecue - SIDES Kansas City, KS	—	—	—	—	—
Sep 29, 2022	American Royal World Series of Barbecue - OPEN CONTEST 🏅 Kansas City, KS	256 / 505 (666.7772)	272 (166.8344)	352 (163.3828)	77 (174.2972)	314 (162.2628)
Sep 29, 2022	American Royal World Series of Barbecue - INVITATIONAL CONTEST unrated Kansas City, KS	233 / 249 (658.7656)	244 (159.9660)	106 (171.4284)	153 (169.6684)	237 (157.7028)
Sep 3, 2022	Barbeque on the Bow Calgary, AB	9 / 36 (670.9028)	18 (166.2972)	8 (169.1656)	11 (169.7028)	13 (165.7372)
Aug 27, 2022	Didsbury Lions BBQ Didsbury, AB	4 / 19 (667.8744)	8 (163.9544)	5 (168.5256)	11 (163.9772)	2 (171.4172)
May 28, 2022	Porkapalooza BBQ Festival Sherwood Park, AB	14 / 39 (655.9312)	8 (167.9656)	6 (169.1544)	5 (172.5828)	35 (146.2284)
Sep 4, 2021	BBQ on the Bow Didsbury, AB	5 / 29 (660.4688)	22 (159.3944)	12 (164.5372)	3 (167.9772)	5 (168.5600)
Sep 3, 2021	Didsbury Lions BBQ Didsbury, AB	1 / 26 (658.1712)	17 (155.3600)	5 (166.2856)	1 (168.5256)	1 (168)
Aug 14, 2021	Porkapalooza BBQ Festival Sherwood Park, AB	3 / 25 (646.8464)	8 (160.5832)	10 (161.1316)	2 (167.9772)	11 (157.1544)
Jan 17, 2020	Slab-O-Rama Barbeque Challenge 🏅 Bullhead City, AZ	36 / 59 (654.0800)	49 (159.3600)	28 (165.6916)	20 (168.5140)	34 (160.5144)
Sep 12, 2019	40th American Royal World Series of Barbecue- OPEN CONTEST 🏅 Kansas City, KS	51 / 468 (684.5716)	39 (174.8800)	324 (161.1316)	11 (177.1428)	97 (171.4172)
Sep 1, 2019	Prairie Dog on the Bow Alberta	8 / 13 (650.1944)	11 (160.5372)	6 (165.1544)	4 (169.1200)	11 (155.3828)
Aug 31, 2019	BBQ on the Bow Calgary	6 / 37 (652.5372)	2 (173.1544)	25 (154.8228)	5 (168)	15 (156.5600)
Aug 10, 2019	Battle River BBQ Showdown Camrose, AB	1 / 20 (679.4744)	1 (169.7372)	2 (166.8688)	2 (170.2856)	1 (172.5828)
Jun 15, 2019	Porkapalooza BBQ Festival Edmonton	3 / 44 (682.8116)	5 (170.8572)	11 (167.9772)	—	2 (173.7028)
Jun 8, 2019	Bare Bones BBQ Cookoff Pilot Butte, SK	3 / 19 (666.2056)	1 (173.1428)	1 (178.8800)	—	6 (158.2628)
May 25, 2019	Heritage Heat Western Smokin BBQ Mountain View, AB	5 / 22 (657.0404)	1 (175.4172)	10 (155.9660)	2 (173.1428)	14 (152.5144)
Jan 18, 2019	Slab-O-Rama Barbeque Challenge 🏅 Bullhead City, AZ	49 / 63 (642.7436)	55 (159.4060)	43 (158.8460)	43 (160.5372)	36 (163.9544)
Sep 1, 2018	BBQ on the Bow Calgary	17 / 43 (624.4684)	23 (159.9772)	14 (158.8916)	29 (147.8968)	20 (157.7028)
Aug 18, 2018	Battle River BBQ Showdown Camrose, AB	9 / 25 (634.2628)	20 (154.8572)	3 (165.1772)	11 (158.2628)	8 (155.9656)
Jun 23, 2018	Smoke on the Water (Day 2) Kenora, Ontaro	10 / 16 (650.2288)	12 (161.1428)	7 (167.4172)	8 (165.7144)	15 (155.9544)
Jun 22, 2018	Smoke on the Water (Day 1) Kenora, ON	9 / 17 (648.4572)	7 (166.8456)	16 (153.6572)	8 (163.9772)	7 (163.9772)
Jun 16, 2018	Porkapalooza BBQ Festival Edmonton	9 / 51 (647.3488)	19 (161.1544)	28 (155.3944)	7 (164.5484)	6 (166.2516)
Sep 2, 2017	BBQ on the Bow Calgary	6 / 42 (651.9316)	4 (167.4056)	7 (163.9772)	1 (176.5600)	35 (143.9888)
Aug 12, 2017	Those Were The Days BBQ Showdown North Battleford, SK	9 / 18 (631.9088)	5 (165.1544)	4 (164.5600)	4 (163.3828)	16 (138.8116)
Jun 24, 2017	Triple B Festival Day 2 Kenora, ON	18 / 21 (632.4000)	8 (170.2512)	20 (146.2400)	18 (159.3712)	15 (156.5376)
Jun 23, 2017	Triple B Festival Day 1 Kenora, ON	9 / 22 (654.7888)	11 (164.5600)	6 (165.1316)	7 (165.7028)	9 (159.3944)
Jun 10, 2017	Porkapalooza BBQ Festival Edmonton	8 / 39 (647.3716)	6 (169.1428)	2 (170.8572)	10 (159.4056)	32 (147.9660)
May 13, 2017	Smokin Q at Lynnwood Ranch Okotoks, AB	19 / 34 (617.6572)	3 (168.6172)	32 (139.9544)	15 (159.4284)	24 (149.6572)
Apr 8, 2017	Barn Burner BBQ Chilliwack, BC	16 / 19 (622.7428)	12 (161.6912)	19 (145.0744)	17 (154.2628)	8 (161.7144)

An unrated contest — an invitational, or a Competitor or Kosher Series board — is in the record but doesn’t move the power rating.

FROZEN TOQUE BBQ

At a glance (the record in numbers)

Power ranking

Rating

Contests

First seen

Best ToY finish

Grand champs

Category wins

Overall top-10s

Best top-10 run

Avg finish

Best overall

Perfect 180s

Current form

Walk rate

Best single call

Consistency

Strongest meat

Road miles

Schedule strength

Purse competed for

State championships

Master avg

Storylines (18 found in their record)

Against the odds

Happy hunting ground

Multi-meat days

They almost always walk

High-water mark

The one to beat

Their season

A tough matchup

The weak link

The drought

A strong matchup

The comeback

Pork nemesis

Built for the big stage

Looking over their shoulder

Boom or bust

An August team

The long haul

In the record book (on 1 all-time board)

Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)

Overall rank by season

Teams like this (closest power rating)

Familiar foes (most-met opponents in overall standings — one meeting per contest)

By meat

By field size and state

By contest size

By state / province (where the contests were held)

Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)

More numbers

Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)

Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)

📈 Biggest rating jumps

📉 Toughest weekends

Scores over time (% of a perfect score, averaged over 5 contests — 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

Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)

Career map (orange GC · green top-10 · grey the rest — tap a pin)