High-water mark
337.0972
career-best overall
93.6% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 337.0972 at Bring'n Home the Bacon Day 1 (MASTER & BACKYARD) — 93.6% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- Jun 7, 2024
Uncle Bucks & Flattops BBQ Team
Uncle Bucks & Flattops BBQ Team is a competition barbecue team with 8 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2023 and 2026. Their best overall finish is 12th of 41 at the Bring'n Home the Bacon Day 1 (MASTER & BACKYARD) (2024). They finished #293 in the 2024 Backyard Series Team of the Year standings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1498
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 4
Contests
8
in the data
First seen
Oct 13, 2023
latest Jun 12, 2026 · 2.7 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
0% of 8 contests
Avg finish
top 68%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
13%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±4.08
spread of their Backyard overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 165.40 · weakest Pork Ribs (164.61)
Road miles
0
across 8 mapped stops
Schedule strength
74%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1594)
Purse competed for
$36K
listed at 8 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 4 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
331.95 / 360
4 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 ↗ | Backyard | #326 (60 pts) | #330 (60 pts) | #272 (120 pts) | — | — |
| 2026 ↗ | Master | — | — | #1203 (60 pts) | — | — |
| 2025 ↗ | Backyard | #368 (60 pts) | #371 (60 pts) | #380 (60 pts) | — | — |
| 2025 ↗ | Master | — | — | #1293 (60 pts) | — | — |
| 2024 ↗ | Backyard | #293 (119 pts) | #346 (89 pts) | #211 (235 pts) | — | — |
| 2024 ↗ | Master | — | — | #1141 (106 pts) | — | — |
| 2023 ↗ | Backyard | — | #330 (65 pts) | #325 (85 pts) | — | — |
| 2023 ↗ | Master | — | — | #1427 (61 pts) | — | — |
Overall rank by season
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to Uncle Bucks & Flattops BBQ Team, each with one reason worth a look.
Uncle Bucks & Flattops BBQ Team has 4 rated contests, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 103 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#3,302 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 8 years before Uncle Bucks & Flattops BBQ Team's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#3,299 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1518
Fewer contests behind them than Uncle Bucks & Flattops BBQ Team has cooked, 5 to 8, which makes theirs the less settled rating of the two.
⚔ Compare careers#3,301 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1498
Level with Uncle Bucks & Flattops BBQ Team on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#3,290 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1503
Careers of much the same size, 6 contests to 8, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#3,303 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1498
They were already cooking in 2015, 8 years before Uncle Bucks & Flattops BBQ Team's first contest.
⚔ Compare careers#3,296 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 67%
- Peak
- 1504
Their last contest in the data was back in 2020, 6 years before Uncle Bucks & Flattops BBQ Team's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careersBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.8344 | 163.4172 | 165.40 | top 76% |
| Pork Ribs | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 170.2628 | 159.9428 | 164.61 | 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.
By field size and state
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 2 | 0 | top 89% |
| Large (40+) | 2 | 0 | top 47% |
Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bring'n Home the Bacon Day 1 (MASTER & BACKYARD) | 3 | 12 | 0 | top 59% | Jun 12, 2026 |
More numbers
Contests a season
2
across 4 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
WI
8 of 8 contests
Contests visited
2
1 of them more than once
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
8 entries · 0 wins · 1 call
Opponents faced
135
finished ahead 101 times, behind 168
Longest layoff
1 yrs
Jun 7, 2024 → Jun 13, 2025
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20261 milestone
- Most recent contest Bring'n Home the Bacon Day 1 (MASTER & BACKYARD)
20244 milestones
- First call Bring'n Home the Bacon Day 1 (MASTER & BACKYARD)
- Career-best overall score337.0972 Bring'n Home the Bacon Day 1 (MASTER & BACKYARD)
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)170.2628 Bring'n Home the Bacon Day 1 (MASTER & BACKYARD)
- Peak power rating (1504) Bring'n Home the Bacon Day 1 (MASTER & BACKYARD)
20232 milestones
- First tracked contest Bring'n Home the Bacon II (ONE MEAT RIBS)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score326.2860 Bring'n Home the Bacon II (MASTER & BACKYARD)
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +9.7 | Bring'n Home the Bacon Day 1 (MASTER & BACKYARD) | Jun 7, 2024 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -5.8 | Bring'n Home the Bacon II (MASTER & BACKYARD) | Oct 13, 2023 |
| -4.6 | Bring'n Home the Bacon Day 1 (MASTER & BACKYARD) | Jun 13, 2025 |
| -1 | Bring'n Home the Bacon Day 1 (MASTER & BACKYARD) | Jun 12, 2026 |
Scores over time (% of a perfect score — tap a meat to add it)
Overall finish over time (top-% of field, lower is better)
Where they finish (overall)
Best vs average (by meat)
How entries end (by meat)
Season by season
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 65% | 92.8% | 92.8% |
| 2025 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 83% | 91.7% | 91.7% |
| 2024 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 29% | 93.6% | 93.6% |
| 2023 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 95% | 90.6% | 90.6% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 2026 | Bring'n Home the Bacon Day 1 (MASTER & BACKYARD) 🏅 West Salem, WI | 26 / 40 (334.1940) | 26 (166.8112) | 29 (167.3828) | — | — |
| Jun 12, 2026 | Bring'n Home the Bacon Day 1 (ONE MEAT RIBS) West Salem, WI | — | — | 24 (161.6572) | — | — |
| Jun 13, 2025 | Bring'n Home the Bacon Day 1 (MASTER & BACKYARD) 🏅 West Salem, WI | 30 / 36 (330.2056) | 31 (164.5372) | 28 (165.6684) | — | — |
| Jun 13, 2025 | Bring'n Home the Bacon (ONE MEAT RIBS) West Salem, WI | — | — | 29 (159.9428) | — | — |
| Jun 7, 2024 | Bring'n Home the Bacon Day 1 (MASTER & BACKYARD) 🏅 West Salem, WI | 12 / 41 (337.0972) | 18 (166.8344) | 10 (170.2628) | — | — |
| Jun 7, 2024 | Bring'n Home the Bacon (ONE MEAT RIBS) West Salem, WI | — | — | 14 (165.1316) | — | — |
| Oct 13, 2023 | Bring'n Home the Bacon II (MASTER & BACKYARD) 🏅 West Salem, WI | 20 / 21 (326.2860) | 23 (163.4172) | 19 (162.8688) | — | — |
| Oct 13, 2023 | Bring'n Home the Bacon II (ONE MEAT RIBS) West Salem, WI | — | — | 23 (163.9656) | — | — |