Master and Backyard overall scores sit on different scales (Master is out of 720, Backyard out of 360), so they're kept separate — averaging them together would be misleading.
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.
92.5% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 666.1716 at Smoking in the Foothills Barbecue Competition And Festival — 92.5% of a perfect 720.
Ahead in 100% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of HOGGY BOTTOM BOYS in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
Off the trail for 5 years, then back at Shelby BBQ Extravaganza (Day 1) (2022-10-28).
A tougher draw than 93% of rated fields
The fields they enter average a 1640 power rating — a tougher draw than 93% of every rated contest in the data.
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.
Sunnyside Smoke has 3 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 94 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, 6 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Sunnyside Smoke on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 6 years after Sunnyside Smoke did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2017, 5 years before Sunnyside Smoke's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2014, 8 years before Sunnyside Smoke's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headCareers of much the same size, 7 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 177.7144 | 168.5372 | 172.36 | top 19% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 171.9772 | 161.1200 | 167.79 | top 44% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 172.5600 | 169.6800 | 171.12 | top 26% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.3944 | 153.0972 | 154.25 | top 90% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shelby BBQ Extravaganza (Day 2) | 2 | 3 | 0 | top 48% | 2022-10-29 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +17.8 | Shelby BBQ Extravaganza (Day 1) | 2022-10-28 |
| +6.8 | Smoking in the Foothills Barbecue Competition And Festival | 2017-10-20 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -7.6 | Shelby BBQ Extravaganza (Day 2) | 2022-10-29 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 100% | top 48% | 94.6% | 93.4% |
| 2017 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 44% | 92.5% | 92.5% |
| 2016 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-10-29 | Shelby BBQ Extravaganza (Day 2) 🏅 Shelby, NC | 30 / 34 (664.4916) | 5 (177.7144) | 33 (161.1200) | 11 (172.5600) | 33 (153.0972) |
| 2022-10-28 | Shelby BBQ Extravaganza (Day 1) 🏅 Shelby, NC | 3 / 35 (340.5144) | 5 (168.5372) | 1 (171.9772) | — | — |
| 2017-10-20 | Smoking in the Foothills Barbecue Competition And Festival Lenoir, NC | 17 / 39 (666.1716) | 11 (170.8344) | 13 (170.2628) | 8 (169.6800) | 32 (155.3944) |
| 2017-09-22 | Butts and Beans BBQ Challenge Newton, NC | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2016-10-14 | Smoking in the Foothills Lenoir, NC | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2016-08-12 | Mountain High BBQ Festival & Car Show Franklin, NC | — | — | — | — | — |