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 75 times in 100
Their Grand Championship at Vine St BBQ Competition & Fest (BACKYARD ONLY) (2023-09-16) came as the ratings underdog — roughly a 25-in-100 shot against the field's top-rated team, Shmack Q.
Took the Grand Championship over a 35-team field at Vine St BBQ Competition & Fest (BACKYARD ONLY).
96.3% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 346.8344 at Vine St BBQ Competition & Fest (BACKYARD ONLY) — 96.3% of a perfect 360.
I'd Smoke That ahead in 75% of their meetings
I'd Smoke That has come out ahead in 3 of their 4 shared contests.
Ahead in 100% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of P-Ridge Smoke in 4 of their 4 shared contests.
Finished 1 of 35 at their very first tracked contest, Vine St BBQ Competition & Fest (BACKYARD ONLY) (2023-09-16).
Mouth 2 Mouth has landed one call behind them 2 times.
They've cooked Vine St BBQ Competition & Fest (BACKYARD ONLY) every year from 2023 to 2026 — the contest they never miss.
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.
Makdaddy BBQ 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 87 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.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2023, 3 years before Makdaddy BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2013, 10 years before Makdaddy BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Makdaddy BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2017, 9 years before Makdaddy BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2015, 11 years before Makdaddy BBQ'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 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 170.2628 | 158.2400 | 165.26 | top 41% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 176.5716 | 153.6804 | 161.57 | top 48% |
| 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 | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vine St BBQ Competition & Fest (BACKYARD ONLY) | 4 | 1 | 1 | top 39% | 2026-08-15 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +16 | Vine St BBQ Competition & Fest (BACKYARD ONLY) | 2023-09-16 |
| +2.2 | Vine St BBQ Competition & Fest (BACKYARD ONLY) | 2024-08-24 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -1.4 | Vine St BBQ Competition & Fest (BACKYARD ONLY) | 2026-08-15 |
| -0.6 | Vine St BBQ Competition & Fest (BACKYARD ONLY) | 2025-09-05 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 57% | 88.9% | 88.9% |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 53% | 88.2% | 88.2% |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 44% | 89.7% | 89.7% |
| 2023 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 3% | 96.3% | 96.3% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-15 | Vine St BBQ Competition & Fest (BACKYARD ONLY) Park Ridge, IL | 17 / 30 (319.9316) | 13 (166.2512) | 23 (153.6804) | — | — |
| 2025-09-05 | Vine St BBQ Competition & Fest (BACKYARD ONLY) Park Ridge, IL | 20 / 38 (317.6232) | 25 (158.2400) | 19 (159.3832) | — | — |
| 2024-08-24 | Vine St BBQ Competition & Fest (BACKYARD ONLY) Park Ridge, IL | 16 / 36 (322.9144) | 13 (166.2856) | 21 (156.6288) | — | — |
| 2023-09-16 | Vine St BBQ Competition & Fest (BACKYARD ONLY) Park Ridge, IL | 1 / 35 (346.8344) | 7 (170.2628) | 2 (176.5716) | — | — |