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.
Chicken is where the weekend gets away from them — it averages 10.77 points below their brisket, and turns into a call 17% of the time against 0%.
Ahead in 100% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of Pa Pa D’s Rib Ticklers in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
Off the trail for 3.8 years, then back at Lake Country BBQ Cook-off(BACKYARD ONLY) (2019-06-09).
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.
BARBED WIRE BARBEQUE 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 117 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-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2018, 3 years before BARBED WIRE BARBEQUE's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2014.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with BARBED WIRE BARBEQUE on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2014, 7 years before BARBED WIRE BARBEQUE's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2013, 8 years before BARBED WIRE BARBEQUE'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 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 168.0000 | 151.4056 | 156.64 | top 58% |
| Pork Ribs | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 170.2972 | 146.8116 | 160.06 | top 40% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.5484 | 154.3428 | 157.45 | top 74% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.0000 | 166.8228 | 167.41 | top 18% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TX | 2 | 0 | top 56% |
| WI | 2 | 0 | top 34% |
| IL | 1 | 0 | top 37% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 16% |
| Medium (20–39) | 2 | 0 | top 49% |
| Large (40+) | 3 | 0 | top 50% |
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Country BBQ Cook-off(BACKYARD ONLY) | 2 | 3 | 0 | top 31% | 2019-06-09 |
| City of Bedford Blues & BBQ Festival | 2 | 39 | 0 | top 56% | 2015-09-04 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +3.3 | Heritage Days BBQ Showdown (Day one) | 2021-06-25 |
| +1.9 | Lake Country BBQ Cook-off(BACKYARD ONLY) | 2019-06-09 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -1.1 | City of Bedford Blues & BBQ Festival | 2014-08-30 |
| -0.4 | City of Bedford Blues & BBQ Festival | 2015-09-04 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 50% | top 34% | 94% | 91.3% |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 37% | 83.5% | 83.5% |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 45% | 85.2% | 85.2% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 56% | 90.2% | 90.2% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 57% | 88.3% | 88.3% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-06-25 | Heritage Days BBQ Showdown (Day one) 🏅 Belvidere, IL | 18 / 49 (300.4688) | 18 (153.6572) | 20 (146.8116) | — | — |
| 2019-06-09 | Lake Country BBQ Cook-off(BACKYARD ONLY) | 10 / 22 (306.7656) | 14 (151.4056) | 8 (155.3600) | — | — |
| 2015-09-04 | City of Bedford Blues & BBQ Festival Bedford, TX | 39 / 70 (649.0972) | 52 (157.1316) | 36 (163.4172) | 45 (160.5484) | 12 (168.0000) |
| 2014-08-30 | City of Bedford Blues & BBQ Festival Bedford, TX | 43 / 76 (635.9656) | 56 (153.6800) | 37 (161.1200) | 63 (154.3428) | 14 (166.8228) |
| Lake Country BBQ Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY) Okauchee, WI | 3 / 19 (338.2972) | 5 (168.0000) | 4 (170.2972) | — | — | |
| Dells BBQ Bash(BACKYARD ONLY) Wisconsin Dells, WI | 13 / 25 (319.3484) | 18 (155.9656) | 11 (163.3828) | — | — |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 ↗ | Backyard | — | #117 (250 pts) | #106 (265 pts) | — | — |
| 2014 ↗ | Master | #2084 (75 pts) | #2167 (75 pts) | #2161 (75 pts) | #2172 (75 pts) | #1836 (130 pts) |