WhistleStop BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
The health card: 3 editions on record from 2024 to 2026, in Huntsville, AL. The public page for this contest →
Latest field
Teams who come back
Not been back
Published purse
Teams who started here
Field, edition by edition
| Year | Date | Teams | Winner | Purse |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Oct 16, 2026 | 43 | Big Fluff BBQ | 4,550.00 |
| 2025 | Oct 17, 2025 | 39 | Hickory Hangover | 4,300.00 |
| 2024 | Oct 18, 2024 | 50 | Deviant Smoke | 4,300.00 |
Who came back
Of the teams at one edition, how many were on the board at the next — and how many were brand new to your contest.
| Edition | Returned | Of | Return rate | New faces |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 20 | 39 | 51% | 23 |
| 2025 | 20 | 50 | 40% | 19 |
The teams who stopped coming
Teams who have cooked this contest before, were not at the most recent edition, and have competed somewhere in the last eighteen months — so they are still active, they just are not here. Sorted by how many times they used to come, which is the order worth working down.
| Team | Times cooked here | Last time here | Last contest anywhere |
|---|---|---|---|
| Say My Name BBQ | 2 | 2025-10-17 | 2026-10-23 |
| Los Diablos | 2 | 2025-10-17 | 2025-10-17 |
| All Things Covered in Smoke | 2 | 2025-10-17 | 2025-10-17 |
| You Don't Win Friends with Salad | 2 | 2025-10-17 | 2025-10-17 |
| SportsPage Smokers | 2 | 2025-10-17 | 2025-10-17 |
| Beefis and Butt-Head | 2 | 2025-10-17 | 2025-10-17 |
| Electro-Que-ted | 1 | 2025-10-17 | 2026-09-30 |
| Serial Grillers | 1 | 2025-10-17 | 2026-06-06 |
| Smoke Rings & BBQ Dreams | 1 | 2025-10-17 | 2025-10-17 |
| Window World | 1 | 2025-10-17 | 2025-10-17 |
| Coldwater Creek | 1 | 2025-10-17 | 2025-10-17 |
| Full Throttle BBQ | 1 | 2025-10-17 | 2025-10-17 |
| Big Beautiful BBQ | 1 | 2025-10-17 | 2025-10-17 |
| El Heffe Q | 1 | 2025-10-17 | 2025-10-17 |
| PIG'N AND CHICK'N | 1 | 2025-10-17 | 2025-10-17 |
| Butt Dust Backyard BBQ | 1 | 2025-10-17 | 2025-10-17 |
| A BBQ Team Divided | 1 | 2025-10-17 | 2025-10-17 |
| TWO CATS | 1 | 2025-10-17 | 2025-10-17 |
| 4th and Pork | 1 | 2025-10-17 | 2025-10-17 |
| Cluckin’ Crazy BBQ | 1 | 2024-10-18 | 2026-07-24 |
| Deviant Smoke | 1 | 2024-10-18 | 2026-10-23 |
| Red, White & Que | 1 | 2024-10-18 | 2026-03-27 |
| GETTIN' SAUCED | 1 | 2024-10-18 | 2026-09-30 |
| Invarique | 1 | 2024-10-18 | 2025-06-13 |
Check your date
Team home regions are inferred from team names and where they cook, and a team is “still active” if it has appeared on any results board in the last eighteen months. Everything here comes from the public listings and results at kcbs.us; contests that never published results are invisible to it, so read low numbers as “not on file” before reading them as “did not happen”.