High-water mark
676.5944
career-best overall
94.0% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 676.5944 at Holmes Drywall Grilling BBQ Contest (INVITATIONAL ONLY) — 94.0% of a perfect 720.
- Backyard
Rubbing Butts BBQ Team
Rubbing Butts BBQ Team is a competition barbecue team with 2 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record in 2019. Their best overall finish is 2nd of 6 at the Holmes Drywall Grilling BBQ Contest (INVITATIONAL ONLY) (), and they have finished Reserve Grand Champion once. They finished #1743 in the 2019 Master Series Team of the Year standings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1497
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 11 invitational or side-series contest not counted
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
Sep 20, 2019
latest Sep 20, 2019
Grand champs
0
1 reserve
Category wins
0
4 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 50%
overall standings
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 171.75 · weakest Brisket (160.56)
Purse competed for
$8,750
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
Master avg
661.12 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Backyard (4-meat) avg
676.59 / 720
1 Backyard (4-meat) contest · 0 GCs
These overall scores sit on different scales (Master out of 720, Backyard (4-meat) out of 720), 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 ↗ | Master | #1743 (94 pts) | #1428 (154 pts) | #1752 (109 pts) | #2014 (64 pts) | #1821 (89 pts) |
By meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 172.0572 | 171.4400 | 171.75 | top 40% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 168.5488 | 167.4284 | 167.99 | top 52% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 174.8800 | 162.2400 | 168.56 | top 63% |
| Brisket | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 161.7256 | 159.3944 | 160.56 | top 60% |
“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.
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20191 milestone
- Most recent contest Little Apple Classic Car & BBQ Cook Off
—8 milestones
- First tracked contest Holmes Drywall Grilling BBQ Contest (INVITATIONAL ONLY)
- First call Holmes Drywall Grilling BBQ Contest (INVITATIONAL ONLY)
- First overall top-10 Holmes Drywall Grilling BBQ Contest (INVITATIONAL ONLY)
- First overall podium Holmes Drywall Grilling BBQ Contest (INVITATIONAL ONLY)
- First Reserve Championship Holmes Drywall Grilling BBQ Contest (INVITATIONAL ONLY)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score676.5944 Holmes Drywall Grilling BBQ Contest (INVITATIONAL ONLY)
- Career-best overall score676.5944 Holmes Drywall Grilling BBQ Contest (INVITATIONAL ONLY)
- Career-best single call (Pork)174.8800 Holmes Drywall Grilling BBQ Contest (INVITATIONAL ONLY)
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 20, 2019 | Little Apple Classic Car & BBQ Cook Off 🏅 Manhattan, KS | 16 / 24 (661.1200) | 7 (172.0572) | 13 (167.4284) | 22 (162.2400) | 17 (159.3944) |
| — | Holmes Drywall Grilling BBQ Contest (INVITATIONAL ONLY) unrated Kansas City, MO | 2 / 6 (676.5944) | 3 (171.4400) | 3 (168.5488) | 2 (174.8800) | 3 (161.7256) |
An unrated contest — an invitational, or a Competitor or Kosher Series board — is in the record but doesn’t move the power rating.