This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here. Still inside their first twelve months: see what a first season usually looks like.
Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
93.6% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 337.1316 at Reelin N Smokin Backyard BBQ Competition (BACKYARD ONLY) — 93.6% of a perfect 360.
Modest Meats ahead in 100% of their meetings
Modest Meats has come out ahead in 4 of their 4 shared contests.
Pork Ribs is where the weekend gets away from them — it averages 7.12 points below their chicken, and turns into a call 0% of the time against 0%.
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.
Batons & Bones 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 147 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 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Batons & Bones on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headCareers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2023, 3 years before Batons & Bones's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2016, 10 years before Batons & Bones's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1504 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 | 167.9772 | 161.1316 | 165.26 | top 75% |
| Pork Ribs | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.8344 | 141.7256 | 158.14 | top 80% |
| Pork | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
| Brisket | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
“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.
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 2 | 0 | top 97% |
| Medium (20–39) | 2 | 0 | top 68% |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +0.5 | Reelin N Smokin Backyard BBQ Competition (BACKYARD ONLY) | 2026-06-12 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -10.2 | O'So Good BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Day 2 | 2026-05-02 |
| -9.4 | O'So Good BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Day 1 | 2026-05-01 |
| -6.8 | Smoke on the Falls | 2026-04-03 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 83% | 93.6% | 91% |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-12 | Reelin N Smokin Backyard BBQ Competition (BACKYARD ONLY) Huntsville, AL | 19 / 31 (337.1316) | 21 (167.9772) | 16 (169.1544) | — | — |
| 2026-05-02 | O'So Good BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Day 2 Cleveland, AL | 15 / 15 (322.7428) | 14 (164.5256) | 15 (158.2172) | — | — |
| 2026-05-01 | O'So Good BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Day 1 Cleveland, AL | 16 / 17 (331.9660) | 16 (161.1316) | 12 (170.8344) | — | — |
| 2026-04-03 | Smoke on the Falls 🏅 Gadsden, AL | 27 / 36 (318.1716) | 16 (167.3944) | 31 (150.7772) | — | — |
| 2025-10-18 | Battle for the Bones BBQ Cook Off (ONE MEAT RIBS) Birmingham, AL | — | — | 16 (141.7256) | — | — |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 ↗ | Backyard | #284 (86 pts) | #297 (76 pts) | #276 (101 pts) | — | — |