Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
Contest to contest, they've covered roughly 3,258 miles across 6 mapped stops — the longest single trip being 1,903 miles to Days of 47 BBQ Rib & Rodeo.
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.
BACK COUNTRY BBQ has 4 rated contests — 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 146 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.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1509 at their best, 36 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 7 years after BACK COUNTRY BBQ did, first appearing in 2020.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with BACK COUNTRY BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headCareers of much the same size, 5 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1503 at their best, 30 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.5256 | 143.9884 | 152.26 | top 84% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 167.9772 | 149.1200 | 158.27 | top 59% |
| Pork | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 171.4056 | 150.2856 | 157.98 | top 68% |
| Brisket | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 162.2628 | 148.0000 | 154.55 | top 71% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FL | 2 | 0 | top 61% |
| UT | 1 | 0 | top 94% |
| VT | 1 | 0 | top 87% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 94% |
| Medium (20–39) | 2 | 0 | top 63% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 84% |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +5.5 | Plant City Pig Jam | 2014-11-21 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -12 | Days of 47 BBQ Rib & Rodeo | 2015-07-24 |
| -10.8 | Lakeland Pig Festival | 2013-01-25 |
| -9.6 | Green Mountain BBQ Championship | 2015-06-27 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 91% | 88.9% | 86% |
| 2014 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 38% | 90.7% | 90.7% |
| 2013 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 84% | 83.4% | 83.4% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-07-24 | Days of 47 BBQ Rib & Rodeo Salt Lake City, UT | 16 / 17 (639.8744) | 16 (157.0972) | 7 (167.9772) | 16 (152.5372) | 9 (162.2628) |
| 2015-06-27 | Green Mountain BBQ Championship Waterbury, VT | 20 / 23 (598.8112) | 20 (143.9884) | 19 (149.1200) | 19 (157.7028) | 21 (148.0000) |
| 2014-11-21 | Plant City Pig Jam Plant City, FL | 15 / 39 (652.9824) | 24 (160.5256) | 13 (165.6800) | 5 (171.4056) | 27 (155.3712) |
| 2014-01-23 | The Tiger Town Pig Festival Lakeland, FL | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2013-11-22 | Plant City Pig Jam Plant City, FL | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2013-01-25 | Lakeland Pig Festival Lakeland, FL | 59 / 70 (600.5714) | 65 (147.4284) | 56 (150.2858) | 59 (150.2856) | 49 (152.5716) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 ↗ | Master | #1970 (75 pts) | #2073 (75 pts) | #2043 (75 pts) | #2080 (75 pts) | #2034 (75 pts) |