Master and Backyard overall scores sit on different scales (Master is out of 720, Backyard out of 360), so they're kept separate — averaging them together would be misleading.
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
Brisket is where the weekend gets away from them — it averages 6.78 points below their pork, and turns into a call 0% of the time against 0%.
Off the trail for 2.6 years, then back at Big Bear Grill & Chill BBQ Championships (2021-05-28).
Their overall swings ±23.13% 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.
Contest to contest, they've covered roughly 11,331 miles across 13 mapped stops — the longest single trip being 2,487 miles to Riverside Blues, Brews & BBQ Festival.
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.
110 rated teams sit within a point of this rating, so a place on this list means the numbers match — no more than that.
This is the highest they've ever been rated, 9 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Head-to-headFewer contests behind them than BURNT OFFERINGS has cooked, 9 to 14, which makes theirs the less settled rating of the two.
⚔ Head-to-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2013.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with BURNT OFFERINGS on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThis is the highest they've ever been rated, 10 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2015, 6 years before BURNT OFFERINGS's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171.9656 | 132.5600 | 156.63 | top 64% |
| Pork Ribs | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.1200 | 128.6400 | 153.77 | top 66% |
| Pork | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.1200 | 144.5600 | 156.88 | top 65% |
| Brisket | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.8916 | 122.0572 | 150.10 | top 66% |
“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.
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| CA | 3 | 0 | top 93% |
| OK | 2 | 0 | top 68% |
| MO | 2 | 0 | top 72% |
| MA | 1 | 0 | top 81% |
| KS | 1 | 0 | top 34% |
| IL | 1 | 0 | top 95% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 6 | 0 | top 86% |
| Large (40+) | 4 | 0 | top 64% |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +7.1 | *Bixby BBQ'n Blues Festival(JUDGES FULL) | 2017-05-05 |
| +6.9 | Battle of the Brisket | 2013-09-13 |
| +0.1 | Anchor City Cook Off | 2013-10-11 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -12.7 | RubStock BBQ Championship: A Groovin' Time in the Foothills | 2013-09-13 |
| -12.7 | Bixby BBQ'N Blues Festival | 2015-05-01 |
| -11.8 | Big Bear Grill & Chill BBQ Championships | 2021-05-28 |
| -10.3 | Lake of the Ozarks Blues & BBQ Weekend | 2013-05-17 |
| -9.9 | Smokin' For Gold | 2013-07-20 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 95% | 74.9% | 74.9% |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 100% | 17% | 17% |
| 2018 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 81% | 87% | 87% |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 38% | 89.9% | 89.9% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 98% | 45.2% | 45.2% |
| 2014 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2013 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 71% | 91% | 86% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-05-28 | Big Bear Grill & Chill BBQ Championships 🏅 Big Bear Lake, CA | 27 / 27 (122.0572) | — | — | — | 26 (122.0572) |
| 2018-10-05 | Riverside Blues, Brews & BBQ Festival Greenfield, MA | 25 / 31 (626.1720) | 21 (162.8572) | 14 (162.8460) | 28 (152.5144) | 26 (147.9544) |
| 2018-03-23 | 7th Annual Santa Anita Winners Circle BBQ Championship Arcadia, CA | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2017-05-05 | *Bixby BBQ'n Blues Festival(JUDGES FULL) Bixby, OK | 26 / 68 (647.2688) | 15 (171.9656) | 24 (165.1200) | 45 (157.0972) | 38 (153.0860) |
| 2015-05-01 | Bixby BBQ'N Blues Festival Bixby, OK | 79 / 81 (325.1544) | — | 26 (164.0572) | — | 35 (161.0972) |
| 2014-09-26 | Hermann Bar-BQ and Brats Festival Hermann, MO | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2014-08-08 | MD State BBQ Bash, Presented by Mars Super Markets Bel Air, MD | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2014-04-11 | Delaware's Triple Threat BBQ Festival at the Fair Harrington, DE | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2013-10-11 | Anchor City Cook Off Centralia, MO | 17 / 29 (651.9084) | 21 (162.3084) | 19 (161.6800) | 15 (165.1200) | 14 (162.8000) |
| 2013-09-13 | RubStock BBQ Championship: A Groovin' Time in the Foothills Cameron Park, CA | 37 / 39 (567.8632) | 38 (132.5600) | 38 (135.9316) | 14 (161.1772) | 36 (138.1944) |
| 2013-09-13 | Battle of the Brisket Mission, KS | 18 / 53 (654.8572) | 22 (164.5256) | 25 (163.4400) | 18 (164.0000) | 20 (162.8916) |
| 2013-07-20 | Smokin' For Gold Placerville, CA | 21 / 25 (584.5260) | 22 (149.7372) | 21 (149.0972) | 23 (144.5600) | 20 (141.1316) |
| 2013-05-17 | Lake of the Ozarks Blues & BBQ Weekend Lake of the Ozarks, MO | 35 / 41 (636.5710) | 16 (168.0000) | 38 (153.1428) | 34 (153.7140) | 24 (161.7142) |
| Vine St BBQ Competition & Fest (BACKYARD ONLY) Park Ridge, IL | 37 / 39 (269.7484) | 33 (141.1084) | 36 (128.6400) | — | — |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 ↗ | Master | #1420 (160 pts) | #1395 (185 pts) | #1571 (150 pts) | #1462 (170 pts) | #1390 (180 pts) |