MILL'S COUNTRY BACKYARD BBQ

At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)

Power ranking

#2737

of 6,413 rated · rankings

Rating

1512

peak 1512 · rated over 10 contests ⓘ

Contests

in the data

First seen

2017-04-15

latest 2019-09-21

Best ToY finish

#941

Master 2018

Grand champs

0 reserve

Category wins

2 podiums

Overall top-10s

of 10 contests

Avg finish

top 52%

overall standings

Best overall

661.0628 / 720

Master · 2nd International Suydersee BBQ Contest

Perfect 180s

Current form

648.05 ▲

last 5 Master vs avg 646.89 (+1.17)

Walk rate

70%

contests with a top-10 call

Best single call

174.2856

Pork Ribs · Eastern BBQ Contest

Consistency

±9.93

std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)

Strongest meat

Chicken

avg 165.15 · weakest Brisket (159.57)

Road miles

687

mi across 10 mapped stops

Schedule strength

31%

of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1542)

Master avg

646.89 / 720

10 Master contests · 0 GCs

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Storylines (8 found in this team's record)

Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.

They almost always walk

70% of contests with a top-10 call

A call in 7 of 10 contests

A top-10 category call in 70% of their 10 contests — they get to the stage more often than not.

The one to beat

2× one call ahead of them

PUREBBQ has finished one call ahead of MILL'S COUNTRY BACKYARD BBQ 2 times — their closest competition in the data.

Their season

2018 their best year

2018 was the year it came together: 3 contests, 0 Grand Championships and 0 category wins, at an average finish in the top 39%.

3 contests
0 overall top-10s
0 category wins
average top 39%

A tough matchup

9–0 behind in the head-to-head

IQ - NETHERLANDS ahead in 100% of their meetings

IQ - NETHERLANDS has come out ahead in 9 of their 9 shared contests.

The weak link

−5.6 points behind their best meat

Brisket is where the weekend gets away from them — it averages 5.57 points below their chicken, and turns into a call 40% of the time against 30%.

Brisket avg 159.57
Chicken avg 165.15
4 calls in 10 entries

A strong matchup

6–0 ahead in the head-to-head

Ahead in 100% of their meetings

They've finished ahead of BUTTRUBBERS (NL) in 6 of their 6 shared contests.

Chicken nemesis

6 of 9 shared chicken entries lost

IQ - NETHERLANDS ahead 67% of the time

Even in their strongest meat, IQ - NETHERLANDS has out-cooked them in 6 of 9 shared chicken entries.

The metronome

±1.38% swing around their own average

Their overall lands within ±1.38% of a perfect score of their own average — whatever the field, you know roughly what they'll turn in.

averages 89.8% of a perfect score
10 contests

Teams like this (closest power rating)

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.

122 rated teams sit within a point of this rating, so a place on this list means the numbers match — no more than that.

Five Q

#2752 of the rated field

1512 ▼ 0 power rating

Contests: 11
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 27%
Peak: 1512

1–0 in 1 shared contest (100% to MILL'S COUNTRY BACKYARD BBQ)

One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team MILL'S COUNTRY BACKYARD BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.

rated over 11 contests
last seen 2025-08-29

⚔ Head-to-head

The Smokey Bandits (NL)

#2735 of the rated field

1512 ▼ 0 power rating

Contests: 5
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 0%
Peak: 1512

0–1 in 1 shared contest (0% to MILL'S COUNTRY BACKYARD BBQ)

Fewer contests behind them than MILL'S COUNTRY BACKYARD BBQ has cooked, 5 to 10, which makes theirs the less settled rating of the two.

rated over 5 contests
last seen 2019-08-31

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TWO LITTLE PIGS BBQ EAST

#2753 of the rated field

1512 ▼ 0 power rating

Contests: 10
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 20%
Peak: 1525

No shared contest yet.

Level with MILL'S COUNTRY BACKYARD BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.

rated over 10 contests
last seen 2024-07-12

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Scott - Yards BBQ

#2729 of the rated field

1513 ▲ 0 power rating

Contests: 11
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 9%
Peak: 1525

No shared contest yet.

Careers of much the same size, 11 contests to 10, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.

rated over 11 contests
last seen 2019-09-12

⚔ Head-to-head

KNOXVEGAS BBQ

#2732 of the rated field

1513 ▲ 0 power rating

Contests: 11
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 18%
Peak: 1520

No shared contest yet.

Their last contest in the data was back in 2016, 3 years before MILL'S COUNTRY BACKYARD BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.

rated over 11 contests

⚔ Head-to-head

MILL HILL BARBEQUE COMPANY

#2739 of the rated field

1512 ▼ 0 power rating

Contests: 9
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 11%
Peak: 1512

No shared contest yet.

This is the highest they've ever been rated, 9 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.

rated over 9 contests
last seen 2024-03-01

⚔ Head-to-head

Familiar foes (most-met opponents in overall standings — one meeting per contest)

Opponent	Meetings	Ahead	Behind	Win rate
IQ - NETHERLANDS	9	0	9	0%	⚔ compare
BBQ Team Laurentius	8	4	4	50%	⚔ compare
BUGHOUSE SMOKERS	8	1	7	13%	⚔ compare
DE FILOUS	7	2	5	29%	⚔ compare
DE VLIEGENDE HOLLANDER BBQ-TEAM	7	1	6	14%	⚔ compare
Backcorner BBQ	7	0	7	0%	⚔ compare
BUTTRUBBERS (NL)	6	6	0	100%	⚔ compare
BBQ De Reizende Mannen	6	6	0	100%	⚔ compare
M&G-BBQ	6	2	4	33%	⚔ compare
SMOKE ON THE WILD SIDE	6	1	5	17%	⚔ compare
UNCLE TONY'S COCKNEY Q	6	1	5	17%	⚔ compare
ROKENDE REGAHS	6	1	5	17%	⚔ compare
BUNCH OF SWINES	6	0	6	0%	⚔ compare
BBQ+	6	0	6	0%	⚔ compare
PARKSTAD SMOKERS	6	0	6	0%	⚔ compare

By meat

Category	Entries	Calls	Wins	Podiums	Best	Worst	Average	Avg finish
Chicken	10	3	0	0	171.4628	157.1084	165.15	top 46%
Pork Ribs	10	2	1	1	174.2856	149.0744	160.31	top 57%
Pork	10	1	0	0	171.4056	151.3712	161.86	top 55%
Brisket	10	4	0	1	171.4172	139.3372	159.57	top 45%

“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.

By contest size

Field	Contests	GCs	Avg finish
Medium (20–39)	6	0	top 60%
Large (40+)	4	0	top 42%

The story so far (13 numbers that describe this team)

On the trail 2.4 yrs 2017-04-15 → 2019-09-21

Busiest season 2019 4 contests

Contests a season 3.3 across 3 seasons in the data

Contests visited 10 0 of them cooked more than once

Most-entered meat Chicken 10 entries · 0 wins · 3 calls

Strongest meat Chicken averages 165.15 · weakest Brisket (159.57)

Walk rate 70% a top-10 call in 7 of 10 contests

Overall top-10 rate 0% 0 of 10 contests

Master average 646.89 out of 720 · 10 contests · 0 GCs

Opponents faced 135 178–169 across every shared overall standing

Road miles 687 10 mapped stops

Schedule strength 1542 average field rating faced — tougher than 31% of rated contests

Power rating 1512 peak 1512 · #2737 of 6,413 rated

Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)

2017
Apr 15 First tracked contest Eastern BBQ Contest
Apr 15 First call Eastern BBQ Contest
Apr 15 First category win (Pork Ribs) Eastern BBQ Contest
Apr 15 First overall past 90% of a perfect score649.6112 Eastern BBQ Contest
Apr 15 Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)174.2856 Eastern BBQ Contest
2018
Sep 1 Career-best overall score661.0628 2nd International Suydersee BBQ Contest
2019
Sep 21 10th tracked contest Het BBQ Kampioenschap Van Het Waasland
Sep 21 Peak power rating (1512) Het BBQ Kampioenschap Van Het Waasland
Sep 21 Most recent contest Het BBQ Kampioenschap Van Het Waasland

Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)

📈 Biggest rating jumps

Swing	Contest	Date
+7.9	2nd International Suydersee BBQ Contest	2018-09-01
+6.7	Eastern BBQ Contest	2017-04-15
+5	*EUregio Barbeque Festival	2018-08-18
+4.7	Beer,Fries & BBQ V (Day 2)	2018-05-12
+3.5	Het BBQ Kampioenschap Van Het Waasland	2019-09-21

📉 Toughest weekends

Swing	Contest	Date
-8.6	*KCBS International BBQ Contest Vuur en Vlees	2017-06-10
-6.5	1st International Suydersee BBQ Contest	2017-09-02
-2.2	EUregio Barbecue Festival	2019-08-17
-1.4	Spring Break BBQ Contest	2019-03-30

Category scores over time

Overall finish over time (top-% of field, lower is better)

Where they finish (overall)

Best vs average (by meat)

How entries end (by meat)

Team of the Year rank by season

Season by season

Season	Contests	Category wins	Walk rate	Avg finish	Best overall (% of perfect)	Avg overall (% of perfect)
2019	4	0	50%	top 55%	91.3%	89.6%
2018	3	0	100%	top 39%	91.8%	91.2%
2017	3	1	67%	top 63%	90.2%	88.9%

Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)

Date	Event	Overall	Chicken	Ribs	Pork	Brisket
2019-09-21	Het BBQ Kampioenschap Van Het Waasland Sint Niklaas, 9100	17 / 36 (650.8800)	9 (169.7600)	14 (162.8344)	20 (161.1656)	21 (157.1200)
2019-08-17	EUregio Barbecue Festival Erlenstr Waldfeucht-Haaren, 52525	18 / 28 (633.6116)	20 (159.4400)	17 (156.5260)	16 (159.9656)	14 (157.6800)
2019-04-20	Eastern BBQ Contest Day 2 Ninove, 9600	14 / 29 (657.0516)	8 (168.5828)	10 (166.2516)	26 (153.0972)	7 (169.1200)
2019-03-30	Spring Break BBQ Contest Lommel,	24 / 40 (637.6684)	16 (164.5828)	38 (149.0744)	20 (165.1312)	18 (158.8800)
2018-09-01	2nd International Suydersee BBQ Contest Zeewolde Flevoland, 3891 DM	13 / 44 (661.0628)	28 (162.2628)	15 (166.8228)	14 (165.1200)	7 (166.8572)
2018-08-18	*EUregio Barbeque Festival Waldfeucht-Haaren/NRW, 52525	14 / 32 (656.4572)	13 (168.5828)	29 (151.9316)	16 (164.5256)	3 (171.4172)
2018-05-12	Beer,Fries & BBQ V (Day 2) Hasselt, 3800	22 / 51 (651.4628)	9 (171.4628)	28 (160.0232)	24 (163.4056)	28 (156.5712)
2017-09-02	1st International Suydersee BBQ Contest Zeewolde Flevoland,	24 / 32 (631.8280)	15 (165.1084)	27 (154.2056)	16 (163.4284)	24 (149.0856)
2017-06-10	*KCBS International BBQ Contest Vuur en Vlees Deurne, 5753 PN	19 / 24 (639.2568)	20 (157.1084)	19 (161.0972)	23 (151.3712)	4 (169.6800)
2017-04-15	Eastern BBQ Contest Ninove, Belgium, g400	14 / 41 (649.6112)	19 (164.5828)	1 (174.2856)	9 (171.4056)	40 (139.3372)

Career map (orange GC · green top-10 · grey the rest — tap a pin)

Team of the Year standings (rank per category by season — year links to the full board on kcbs.us)

Year	Series	Overall	Chicken	Ribs	Pork	Brisket
2018 ↗	Master	#941 (307 pts)	#975 (322 pts)	#1225 (227 pts)	#1056 (282 pts)	#762 (457 pts)
2017 ↗	Master	#1331 (194 pts)	#1608 (164 pts)	#1007 (364 pts)	#1395 (204 pts)	#1209 (259 pts)