High-water mark
343.4060
career-best overall
95.4% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 343.4060 at Smoke on the Midway (BACKYARD ONLY) — 95.4% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2026-08-22
692 BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1502
peak 1502 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2026-08-22
latest 2026-08-22
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
1
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 37%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Top-10 streak
2
and counting
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 172.85 · weakest Pork Ribs (160.57)
Purse competed for
$5K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
Backyard avg
333.42 / 360
2 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
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.
Storylines (3 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.
The one to beat
2×
one call ahead of them
309 BBQ has finished one call ahead of 692 BBQ 2 times — their closest competition in the data.
Announced themselves early
3rd
at their very first contest
Finished 3 of 17 at their very first tracked contest, Smoke on the Midway (BACKYARD ONLY) ().
- 17-team field
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.
692 BBQ has 1 rated contest — 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 104 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.
#3114 of the rated field
- Contests
- 17
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 24%
- Peak
- 1533
1–0 in 1 shared contest (100% to 692 BBQ)
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team 692 BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head#3131 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1511
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2022, 4 years before 692 BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3129 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3123 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2013, 13 years before 692 BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3118 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
Level with 692 BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3110 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1503
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2016, 10 years before 692 BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 175.4288 | 170.2744 | 172.85 | top 15% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 167.9772 | 153.1544 | 160.57 | top 64% |
| 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.
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smoke on the Midway (BACKYARD ONLY) | 2 | 3 | 0 | top 37% | 2026-08-22 |
The story so far (14 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0 yrs
2026-08-22 → 2026-08-22
Busiest season
—
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
IL
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
1
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 1 win · 2 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 172.85 · weakest Pork Ribs (160.57)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 2 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
100%
2 of 2 contests
Best top-10 run
2
straight contests — and still running
Backyard average
333.42
out of 360 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
32
22–12 across every shared overall standing
Purse competed for
$5,250
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
Power rating
1502
peak 1502 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- First tracked contest Smoke on the Midway (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First call Smoke on the Midway (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First category win (Chicken) Smoke on the Midway (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall top-10 Smoke on the Midway (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall podium Smoke on the Midway (BACKYARD ONLY)
- 2026
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score343.4060 Smoke on the Midway (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best overall score343.4060 Smoke on the Midway (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best single call (Chicken)175.4288 Smoke on the Midway (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Most recent contest Smoke on the Midway (BACKYARD ONLY)
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)
Season by season
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 100% | top 18% | 89.8% | 89.8% |
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 56% | 95.4% | 95.4% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-22 | Smoke on the Midway (BACKYARD ONLY) Fairbury, IL | 9 / 16 (343.4060) | 4 (175.4288) | 12 (167.9772) | — | — |
| Smoke on the Midway (BACKYARD ONLY) Fairbury, IL | 3 / 17 (323.4288) | 1 (170.2744) | 9 (153.1544) | — | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 ↗ | Backyard | — | #113 (267 pts) | #186 (127 pts) | — | — |