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.
94.8% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 341.1200 at American Royal World Series of Barbecue Backyard Contest — 94.8% of a perfect 360.
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.
W2 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 113 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.
5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where W2 BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with W2 BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2015, 8 years before W2 BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where W2 BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2019, 4 years before W2 BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2015, 8 years before W2 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 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 172.5600 | 172.5600 | 172.56 | top 14% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.5600 | 168.5600 | 168.56 | top 41% |
| 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 19% | 94.8% | 94.8% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-03-24 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue Backyard Contest Kansas City, MO | 7 / 37 (341.1200) | 5 (172.5600) | 15 (168.5600) | — | — |