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.
96.0% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 345.7260 at Page County Heritage Festival - Backyard BBQ (BACKYARD ONLY) — 96.0% of a perfect 360.
Finished 3 of 9 at their very first tracked contest, Page County Heritage Festival - Backyard BBQ (BACKYARD ONLY) (2025-10-11).
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.
Wit's End has 2 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 103 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.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2019, 6 years before Wit's End's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2022, 4 years before Wit's End's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Wit's End 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, 12 years before Wit's End's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Wit's End's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 176.5944 | 166.2400 | 171.42 | top 35% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 169.1316 | 161.6572 | 165.39 | top 65% |
| Pork | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 170.2628 | 170.2628 | 170.26 | top 42% |
| 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.
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 67% | 91.1% | 91.1% |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 100% | top 33% | 96% | 96% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-05 | Loudoun Rotary BBQ Classic (BACKYARD ONLY) Leesburg, VA | 8 / 12 (327.8972) | 7 (166.2400) | 9 (161.6572) | 5 (170.2628) | — |
| 2025-10-11 | Page County Heritage Festival - Backyard BBQ (BACKYARD ONLY) Luray, VA | 3 / 9 (345.7260) | 1 (176.5944) | 5 (169.1316) | — | — |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 ↗ | Backyard | #221 (132 pts) | #220 (142 pts) | #246 (122 pts) | — | — |
| 2025 ↗ | Backyard | #210 (209 pts) | #190 (259 pts) | #268 (159 pts) | — | — |