High-water mark
477.6800
career-best overall
132.7% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 477.6800 at Covington Cork & Pork Festival — 132.7% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2023-06-02
Back Up BBQ!
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1508
peak 1508 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
1
in the data
First seen
2023-06-02
latest 2023-06-02
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 1 contests
Avg finish
top 30%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 162.85 · weakest Pork Ribs (157.12)
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
477.68 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Storylines (1 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.
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 Up 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 105 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.
#2892 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1520
No shared contest yet.
5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Back Up BBQ!'s is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head#2877 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 5 years before Back Up BBQ!'s most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2879 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1520
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2013, 10 years before Back Up BBQ!'s first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#2875 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1518
No shared contest yet.
Level with Back Up BBQ! on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2888 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1520
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2016, 7 years before Back Up BBQ!'s most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2882 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1508
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2013, 10 years before Back Up 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 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 157.7144 | 157.7144 | 157.71 | top 30% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 157.1200 | 157.1200 | 157.12 | top 33% |
| Pork | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 162.8456 | 162.8456 | 162.85 | top 22% |
| 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.
The story so far (12 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0 yrs
2023-06-02 → 2023-06-02
Busiest season
2023
1 contest
Cooks most in
VA
1 of 1 contests
Contests visited
1
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
1 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 162.85 · weakest Pork Ribs (157.12)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 1 of 1 contests
Overall top-10 rate
100%
1 of 1 contests
Backyard average
477.68
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
38
23–14 across every shared overall standing
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Power rating
1508
peak 1508 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2023
- First tracked contest Covington Cork & Pork Festival
- First call Covington Cork & Pork Festival
- First overall top-10 Covington Cork & Pork Festival
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score477.6800 Covington Cork & Pork Festival
- Career-best overall score477.6800 Covington Cork & Pork Festival
- Career-best single call (Pork)162.8456 Covington Cork & Pork Festival
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 30% | 132.7% | 132.7% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-06-02 | Covington Cork & Pork Festival 🏅 Covington, VA | 8 / 27 (477.6800) | 8 (157.7144) | 9 (157.1200) | 6 (162.8456) | — |