High-water mark
677.0972
career-best overall
94.0% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 677.0972 at Delta Smoke BBQ Contest — 94.0% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2021-06-11
Back Yard Southern Style
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1499
peak 1506 · rated over 4 contests ⓘ
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
2017-06-09
latest 2021-06-11
Best ToY finish
#1152
Master 2021
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 61%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
657.05
last 4 Master vs avg 657.05 (+0.00)
Walk rate
25%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±22.82
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 166.86 · weakest Brisket (162.25)
Road miles
135
mi across 4 mapped stops · furthest 36 mi
Schedule strength
62%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1579)
Purse competed for
$10K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
657.05 / 720
4 Master contests · 0 GCs
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.
A tough matchup
4–0
behind in the head-to-head
DAD'S GRILLIN CREW ahead in 100% of their meetings
DAD'S GRILLIN CREW has come out ahead in 4 of their 4 shared contests.
The comeback
2.1 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 2.1 years, then back at Delta Smoke BBQ Contest (2021-06-11).
- last seen 2019-05-10
- back 2021-06-11
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.
Back Yard Southern Style has 4 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 129 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.
#3218 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
1–0 in 1 shared contest (100% to Back Yard Southern Style)
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Back Yard Southern Style has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head#3246 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1508
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#3236 of the rated field
- Contests
- 9
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 11%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2017.
⚔ Head-to-head#3232 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1499
No shared contest yet.
Level with Back Yard Southern Style on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3245 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#3227 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1501
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 3 years before Back Yard Southern Style'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 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 178.8572 | 149.6800 | 166.86 | top 49% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171.4516 | 152.5372 | 162.55 | top 62% |
| Pork | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.8456 | 159.9772 | 165.40 | top 61% |
| Brisket | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.4172 | 156.5028 | 162.25 | top 59% |
“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 contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 3 | 0 | top 68% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 42% |
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delta Smoke BBQ Contest | 2 | 19 | 0 | top 49% | 2021-06-11 |
The story so far (17 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
4 yrs
2017-06-09 → 2021-06-11
Busiest season
2021
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 4 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
AR
4 of 4 contests
Contests visited
3
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
4 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 166.86 · weakest Brisket (162.25)
Walk rate
25%
a top-10 call in 1 of 4 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 4 contests
Master average
657.05
out of 720 · 4 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
100
58–76 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
135
4 mapped stops · furthest 36 mi
Schedule strength
1579
average field rating faced — tougher than 62% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$10,000
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
2.1 yrs
2019-05-10 → 2021-06-11
Power rating
1499
peak 1506 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2017
- First tracked contest Delta Smoke BBQ Contest
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score674.3204 Delta Smoke BBQ Contest
- Peak power rating (1506) Delta Smoke BBQ Contest
- 2019
- First call Esperanza Bonanza BBQ Blitz
- Career-best single call (Chicken)178.8572 Esperanza Bonanza BBQ Blitz
- 2021
- Career-best overall score677.0972 Delta Smoke BBQ Contest
- Most recent contest Delta Smoke BBQ Contest
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +5.8 | Delta Smoke BBQ Contest | 2017-06-09 |
| +2.4 | Delta Smoke BBQ Contest | 2021-06-11 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -8.2 | *BBQ & Blues on the Levee(JUDGES FULL) | 2018-10-05 |
| -0.8 | Esperanza Bonanza BBQ Blitz | 2019-05-10 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 55% | 94% | 94% |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 63% | 91.2% | 91.2% |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 84% | 86.1% | 86.1% |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 42% | 93.7% | 93.7% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-06-11 | Delta Smoke BBQ Contest 🏅 Wynne, AR | 21 / 38 (677.0972) | 17 (171.4172) | 24 (167.4172) | 16 (170.8456) | 18 (167.4172) |
| 2019-05-10 | Esperanza Bonanza BBQ Blitz 🏅 Marion, AR | 19 / 30 (656.9484) | 3 (178.8572) | 24 (158.7884) | 22 (162.8000) | 22 (156.5028) |
| 2018-10-05 | *BBQ & Blues on the Levee(JUDGES FULL) Helena, AR | 21 / 25 (619.8516) | 22 (149.6800) | 20 (152.5372) | 19 (159.9772) | 15 (157.6572) |
| 2017-06-09 | Delta Smoke BBQ Contest Wynne, AR | 19 / 45 (674.3204) | 24 (167.4744) | 12 (171.4516) | 24 (167.9772) | 24 (167.4172) |
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 ↗ | Master | #1152 (80 pts) | #1130 (100 pts) | #1297 (65 pts) | #1091 (105 pts) | #1111 (95 pts) |