The comeback
4 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 4 years, then back at Que' For a Cause (BACKYARD) Day 1 (2022-10-07).
- last seen 2018-10-13
- back 2022-10-07
TAHLEQUAH OUTLAWS
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1488
peak 1488 · rated over 3 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2018-10-13
latest 2022-10-08
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 72%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
67%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 169.31 · weakest Brisket (152.54)
Road miles
26
mi across 3 mapped stops
Schedule strength
43%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1556)
Purse competed for
$10K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
Master avg
614.73 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
498.47 / 360
2 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
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.
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.
TAHLEQUAH OUTLAWS 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 149 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.
#3758 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1488
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#3748 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 80%
- Peak
- 1488
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 7 years after TAHLEQUAH OUTLAWS did, first appearing in 2025.
⚔ Head-to-head#3730 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
Level with TAHLEQUAH OUTLAWS on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3740 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#3764 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1503
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#3760 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 3 years before TAHLEQUAH OUTLAWS'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 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.0000 | 158.2056 | 162.05 | top 81% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 171.9888 | 133.1088 | 155.01 | top 71% |
| Pork | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 169.6800 | 169.1200 | 169.31 | top 43% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 152.5372 | 152.5372 | 152.54 | top 92% |
“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 (17 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
4 yrs
2018-10-13 → 2022-10-08
Busiest season
2022
2 contests
Contests a season
1.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
OK
3 of 3 contests
Contests visited
3
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
3 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 169.31 · weakest Brisket (152.54)
Walk rate
67%
a top-10 call in 2 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 3 contests
Master average
614.73
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Backyard average
498.47
out of 360 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
59
27–60 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
26
3 mapped stops
Schedule strength
1556
average field rating faced — tougher than 43% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$10,100
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
Longest layoff
4 yrs
2018-10-13 → 2022-10-07
Power rating
1488
peak 1488 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2018
- First tracked contest *Bedouin Brew & Bar-B-Que
- First call *Bedouin Brew & Bar-B-Que
- Career-best overall score614.7316 *Bedouin Brew & Bar-B-Que
- Peak power rating (1491) *Bedouin Brew & Bar-B-Que
- 2022
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score487.2684 Que' For a Cause (BACKYARD) Day 1
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)171.9888 Que' For a Cause (BACKYARD) Day 2
- Most recent contest Que' For a Cause (BACKYARD) Day 2
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +6.8 | Que' For a Cause (BACKYARD) Day 2 | 2022-10-08 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -9.8 | Que' For a Cause (BACKYARD) Day 1 | 2022-10-07 |
| -8.9 | *Bedouin Brew & Bar-B-Que | 2018-10-13 |
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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 59% | 141.6% | 138.5% |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 96% | 85.4% | 85.4% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-10-08 | Que' For a Cause (BACKYARD) Day 2 Tahlequah, OK | 11 / 32 (509.6688) | 22 (168.0000) | 9 (171.9888) | 12 (169.6800) | — |
| 2022-10-07 | Que' For a Cause (BACKYARD) Day 1 Tahlequah, OK | 27 / 32 (487.2684) | 30 (158.2056) | 28 (159.9428) | 18 (169.1200) | — |
| 2018-10-13 | *Bedouin Brew & Bar-B-Que Muskogee, OK | 25 / 26 (614.7316) | 21 (159.9428) | 25 (133.1088) | 9 (169.1428) | 24 (152.5372) |