This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
The ratings favoured the top seed the other 76 times in 100
Their Grand Championship at American Royal Backyard and Steak Contest (2021-03-12) came as the ratings underdog — roughly a 24-in-100 shot against the field's top-rated team, MEAT RUSHMORE BBQ.
Finished 1 of 24 at their very first tracked contest, American Royal Backyard and Steak Contest (2021-03-12).
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.
Beer City Barbecue 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 99 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.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 3 years before Beer City Barbecue's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2013, 8 years before Beer City Barbecue's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Beer City Barbecue on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2016, 5 years before Beer City Barbecue's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2013, 8 years before Beer City Barbecue's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.7144 | 153.7372 | 159.73 | top 74% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.4172 | 135.3712 | 147.39 | top 98% |
| 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.
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0% | top 43% | 90.3% | 90.3% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-05-21 | Twin States Barbecue Showdown (BACKYARD ONLY) Meridian, MS | 18 / 22 (325.1316) | 15 (165.7144) | 22 (159.4172) | — | — |
| 2021-03-12 | American Royal Backyard and Steak Contest Kansas City, MO | 1 / 24 (178.3200) | 19 (153.7372) | 23 (135.3712) | — | — |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 ↗ | Backyard | — | #152 (176 pts) | #194 (121 pts) | — | — |