Riding a hot streak
4
straight overall top-10s
Currently on a 4-contest overall top-10 run.
- career best 4
2 Moon Que
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1528
peak 1528 · rated over 4 contests ⓘ
Best runs
4
straight top-10s
Contests
6
in the data
First seen
2022-05-06
latest 2022-09-09
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
4
of 6 contests
Avg finish
top 35%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
332.23
last 4 Backyard vs avg 332.23 (-0.00)
Walk rate
83%
contests with a top-10 call
Top-10 streak
4
and counting
Consistency
±5.72
std dev of Backyard overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 169.12 · weakest Pork Ribs (165.89)
Road miles
301
mi across 6 mapped stops · furthest 66 mi
Schedule strength
60%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1576)
Purse competed for
$18K
listed at 4 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
332.23 / 360
4 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
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.
High-water mark
338.8000
career-best overall
94.1% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 338.8000 at Car-B-Que (BACKYARD ONLY) — 94.1% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2022-09-09
A tough matchup
4–0
behind in the head-to-head
Swine-O-licious BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings
Swine-O-licious BBQ has come out ahead in 4 of their 4 shared contests.
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.
2 Moon Que 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 74 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.
#2250 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1542
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 6 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#2264 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 100%
- Peak
- 1528
No shared contest yet.
5 straight overall top-10s says this rating is a moving target.
⚔ Head-to-head#2260 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 71%
- Peak
- 1528
No shared contest yet.
Level with 2 Moon Que on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2244 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1529
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#2245 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1539
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2013, 9 years before 2 Moon Que's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2246 of the rated field
- Contests
- 9
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1529
No shared contest yet.
Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 171.4172 | 167.3944 | 169.12 | top 30% |
| Pork Ribs | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 170.3084 | 157.6456 | 165.89 | top 56% |
| 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.
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 2 | 0 | top 53% |
| Medium (20–39) | 2 | 0 | top 17% |
The story so far (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0.3 yrs
2022-05-06 → 2022-09-09
Busiest season
2022
6 contests
Cooks most in
MO
6 of 6 contests
Contests visited
4
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
6 entries · 0 wins · 5 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 169.12 · weakest Pork Ribs (165.89)
Walk rate
83%
a top-10 call in 5 of 6 contests
Overall top-10 rate
67%
4 of 6 contests
Best top-10 run
4
straight contests — and still running
Backyard average
332.23
out of 360 · 4 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
64
56–21 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
301
6 mapped stops · furthest 66 mi
Schedule strength
1576
average field rating faced — tougher than 60% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$17,650
listed at 4 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Power rating
1528
peak 1528 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2022
- First tracked contest Columbia Elks BBQ Cookoff - One Meat Ribs
- First call Columbia Elks BBQ Cookoff - One Meat Ribs
- First overall top-10 Columbia Elks BBQ Cookoff
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score336.5144 Columbia Elks BBQ Cookoff
- Career-best single call (Chicken)171.4172 2022 Cameron Elks BBQ Cook Off (Day 1)
- First overall podium Smokin on The Harbor (BACKYARD) (JUDGING FULL)
- Career-best overall score338.8000 Car-B-Que (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Peak power rating (1528) Car-B-Que (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Most recent contest Car-B-Que (BACKYARD ONLY)
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +13 | Columbia Elks BBQ Cookoff | 2022-05-06 |
| +12.3 | 2022 Cameron Elks BBQ Cook Off (Day 1) | 2022-07-15 |
| +2.2 | Car-B-Que (BACKYARD ONLY) | 2022-09-09 |
| +0.8 | Smokin on The Harbor (BACKYARD) (JUDGING FULL) | 2022-08-05 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 83% | top 35% | 94.1% | 92.3% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-09-09 | Car-B-Que (BACKYARD ONLY) Belton, MO | 6 / 13 (338.8000) | 6 (168.5372) | 8 (170.2628) | — | — |
| 2022-08-05 | Smokin on The Harbor (BACKYARD) (JUDGING FULL) Warsaw, MO | 3 / 5 (324.5256) | — | 4 (163.4400) | — | — |
| 2022-07-16 | 2022 Cameron Elks BBQ Cook Off - One Meat Ribs Cameron, MO | — | — | 25 (164.5600) | — | — |
| 2022-07-15 | 2022 Cameron Elks BBQ Cook Off (Day 1) 🏅 Cameron, MO | 5 / 27 (329.0628) | 5 (171.4172) | 7 (157.6456) | — | — |
| 2022-05-06 | Columbia Elks BBQ Cookoff 🏅 Columbia, MO | 4 / 25 (336.5144) | 6 (167.3944) | 2 (169.1200) | — | — |
| 2022-05-06 | Columbia Elks BBQ Cookoff - One Meat Ribs Columbia, MO | — | — | 9 (170.3084) | — | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 ↗ | Backyard | — | #71 (661 pts) | #49 (814 pts) | — | — |