Riding a hot streak
4
straight overall top-10s
Currently on a 4-contest overall top-10 run.
- career best 4
Big Fluff BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1569
peak 1569 · rated over 10 contests ⓘ
Best runs
4
straight top-10s
Contests
10
in the data
First seen
2025-04-11
latest 2026-06-12
Best ToY finish
#37
Backyard 2026
Grand champs
1
1 reserve
Category wins
4
7 podiums
Overall top-10s
5
of 10 contests
Avg finish
top 37%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
2 🔥
Current form
347.63 ▲
last 5 Backyard vs avg 343.56 (+4.08)
Walk rate
80%
contests with a top-10 call
Top-10 streak
4
and counting
Consistency
±9.73
std dev of Backyard overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 173.58 · weakest Pork Ribs (169.94)
Road miles
728
mi across 10 mapped stops · furthest 127 mi
Schedule strength
64%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1580)
Purse competed for
$65K
listed at 9 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 4 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
343.56 / 360
10 Backyard contests · 1 GC
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Storylines (12 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.
The heartbreaker
1.7028
points from the title
Came within 1.7028 points of the Grand Championship at High on the Hog Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) (2026-05-15).
Perfect scores on the board
2
perfect 180s
2 perfect 180s in the data — every judge at the table handing back a nine, across 2 different meats.
- Chicken ×1
- Pork Ribs ×1
Against the odds
21-in-100
shot on pre-contest ratings
The ratings favoured the top seed the other 79 times in 100
Their Grand Championship at Reelin N Smokin Backyard BBQ Competition (BACKYARD ONLY) (2026-06-12) came as the ratings underdog — roughly a 21-in-100 shot against the field's top-rated team, Rollin Smoke BBQ.
On the rise
+53
rating points in a year
Their power rating has climbed 53 points across 8 contests since 2025-09-19 — from 1516 up to 1569.
- 8 contests since 2025-09-19
- now 1569
Giant slayer
31
teams beaten in one weekend
Took the Grand Championship over a 31-team field at Reelin N Smokin Backyard BBQ Competition (BACKYARD ONLY).
- 2026-06-12
A multi-meat day
1
contests with 2+ category wins
They've won two or more meats on the same day 1 time — the best of them 2 category wins at Reelin N Smokin Backyard BBQ Competition (BACKYARD ONLY) (2026-06-12).
- Chicken 1st
- Pork Ribs 1st
They almost always walk
80%
of contests with a top-10 call
A call in 8 of 10 contests
A top-10 category call in 80% of their 10 contests — they get to the stage more often than not.
High-water mark
360.0000
career-best overall
100.0% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 360.0000 at Reelin N Smokin Backyard BBQ Competition (BACKYARD ONLY) — 100.0% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2026-06-12
Their season
2026
1 Grand Championship
2026 was the year it came together: 6 contests, 1 Grand Championship and 4 category wins, at an average finish in the top 25%.
- 6 contests
- 4 overall top-10s
- 4 category wins
- average top 25%
A tough matchup
5–1
behind in the head-to-head
LEE LA Q ahead in 83% of their meetings
LEE LA Q has come out ahead in 5 of their 6 shared contests.
A strong matchup
5–0
ahead in the head-to-head
Ahead in 100% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of Modest Meats in 5 of their 5 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.
59 rated teams sit within a point of this rating, so a place on this list means the numbers match — no more than that.
#1426 of the rated field
- Contests
- 10
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 90%
- Peak
- 1569
No shared contest yet.
This is the highest they've ever been rated, 10 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Head-to-head#1415 of the rated field
- Contests
- 10
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1574
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 8 years before Big Fluff BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#1413 of the rated field
- Contests
- 10
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 100%
- Peak
- 1570
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 10 contests to 10, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#1427 of the rated field
- Contests
- 10
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1569
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2014, 11 years before Big Fluff BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#1421 of the rated field
- Contests
- 13
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 69%
- Peak
- 1573
No shared contest yet.
13 contests and no Grand Championship yet — a rating made of 69% top-10 finishes rather than wins.
⚔ Head-to-head#1416 of the rated field
- Contests
- 11
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 18%
- Peak
- 1569
No shared contest yet.
Level with Big Fluff BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headFamiliar foes (most-met opponents in overall standings — one meeting per contest)
| Opponent | Meetings | Ahead | Behind | Win rate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pork Life | 9 | 5 | 4 | 56% | ⚔ compare |
| Wee Daddy's BBQ | 8 | 4 | 4 | 50% | ⚔ compare |
| Rollin Smoke BBQ | 7 | 3 | 4 | 43% | ⚔ compare |
| LENOX & SON BBQ COMPANY | 6 | 4 | 2 | 67% | ⚔ compare |
| Bentley Que | 6 | 3 | 3 | 50% | ⚔ compare |
| Southern Swine | 6 | 3 | 3 | 50% | ⚔ compare |
| Deviant Smoke | 6 | 2 | 4 | 33% | ⚔ compare |
| LEE LA Q | 6 | 1 | 5 | 17% | ⚔ compare |
| PUDDLEDUCK BBQ | 6 | 1 | 5 | 17% | ⚔ compare |
| Modest Meats | 5 | 5 | 0 | 100% | ⚔ compare |
| Mind if I Smoke? | 5 | 2 | 3 | 40% | ⚔ compare |
| Dogpatch Q | 5 | 1 | 4 | 20% | ⚔ compare |
| Say My Name BBQ | 5 | 1 | 4 | 20% | ⚔ compare |
By meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 11 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 180.0000 🔥 | 157.0856 | 173.34 | top 30% |
| Pork Ribs | 11 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 180.0000 🔥 | 162.8000 | 169.94 | top 45% |
| Pork | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 177.7028 | 166.2400 | 173.58 | top 20% |
| 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 state / province
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| AL | 7 | 1 | top 47% |
| GA | 2 | 0 | top 20% |
| TN | 1 | 0 | top 7% |
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 8 | 1 | top 34% |
| Large (40+) | 2 | 0 | top 50% |
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smoke in the Park (BACKYARD & KIDS QUE) | 3 | 4 | 0 | top 54% | 2026-06-05 |
The story so far (20 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1.2 yrs
2025-04-11 → 2026-06-12
Busiest season
2026
6 contests · 1 GC
Contests a season
5
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
AL
7 of 10 contests · 3 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
8
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
11 entries · 1 win · 9 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 173.58 · weakest Pork Ribs (169.94)
Walk rate
80%
a top-10 call in 8 of 10 contests
Overall top-10 rate
50%
5 of 10 contests
Wins it all
10%
1 Grand Championship · 1 reserve
First title
2026-06-12
Reelin N Smokin Backyard BBQ Competition (BACKYARD ONLY)
Best top-10 run
4
straight contests — and still running
Backyard average
343.56
out of 360 · 10 contests · 1 GC
Perfect 180s
2
every judge at the table handing back a nine
Opponents faced
238
275–153 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
728
10 mapped stops · furthest 127 mi
Schedule strength
1580
average field rating faced — tougher than 64% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$65,090
listed at 9 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 4 state-championship entries
Power rating
1569
peak 1569 · #1420 of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2025
- First tracked contest Smoke on the Falls BBQ Competition
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score337.0628 Smoke on the Falls BBQ Competition
- First call BBQ & Boogie
- First overall top-10 BBQ & Boogie
- 2026
- First category win (Pork Ribs) High on the Hog Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall podium High on the Hog Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First Reserve Championship High on the Hog Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First Grand Championship Reelin N Smokin Backyard BBQ Competition (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First multi-meat day Reelin N Smokin Backyard BBQ Competition (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First perfect 180 (Chicken) Reelin N Smokin Backyard BBQ Competition (BACKYARD ONLY)
- 10th tracked contest Reelin N Smokin Backyard BBQ Competition (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Biggest field won (31 teams) Reelin N Smokin Backyard BBQ Competition (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best overall score360.0000 Reelin N Smokin Backyard BBQ Competition (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Peak power rating (1569) Reelin N Smokin Backyard BBQ Competition (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Most recent contest Reelin N Smokin Backyard BBQ Competition (BACKYARD ONLY)
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +16.1 | Reelin N Smokin Backyard BBQ Competition (BACKYARD ONLY) | 2026-06-12 |
| +15.8 | High on the Hog Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) | 2026-05-15 |
| +15.3 | BBQ & Boogie | 2025-04-25 |
| +14.4 | Smoke in the Park (BACKYARD & KIDS QUE) | 2026-06-05 |
| +9.5 | Sip & Swine BBQ Festival | 2026-03-06 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -6.8 | Smoke in the Park (BACKYARD) | 2025-09-20 |
| -4.7 | Singing River Smoke-O-Rama (BACKYARD ONLY) | 2026-03-27 |
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)
Team of the Year rank by season
Season by season
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 83% | top 25% | 100% | 96.3% |
| 2025 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 75% | top 56% | 96.5% | 94.1% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-12 | Reelin N Smokin Backyard BBQ Competition (BACKYARD ONLY) Huntsville, AL | 1 / 31 (360.0000) | 1 (180.0000) | 1 (180.0000) | — | — |
| 2026-06-05 | Smoke in the Park (BACKYARD & KIDS QUE) Glencoe, AL | 4 / 26 (352.5600) | 3 (178.8572) | 10 (173.7028) | 1 (177.7028) | — |
| 2026-05-15 | High on the Hog Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Winchester, TN | 2 / 29 (355.4516) | 6 (177.1544) | 1 (178.2972) | 3 (175.4056) | — |
| 2026-04-03 | Smoke on the Falls 🏅 Gadsden, AL | 10 / 36 (342.8000) | 5 (176.5600) | 22 (166.2400) | — | — |
| 2026-03-27 | Singing River Smoke-O-Rama (BACKYARD ONLY) Athens, AL | 31 / 43 (327.3484) | 39 (157.0856) | 19 (170.2628) | — | — |
| 2026-03-06 | Sip & Swine BBQ Festival 🏅 Lawrenceville, GA | 12 / 44 (341.6688) | 3 (176.5716) | 21 (165.0972) | 5 (176.5944) | — |
| 2025-09-20 | Smoke in the Park (BACKYARD) Glencoe, AL | 18 / 22 (334.2172) | 9 (170.2628) | 17 (163.9544) | — | — |
| 2025-09-19 | Smoke in the Park (BACKYARD & KIDS QUE) Glencoe, AL | 19 / 30 (337.0744) | 8 (174.2744) | 23 (162.8000) | 14 (171.9772) | — |
| 2025-04-25 | BBQ & Boogie 🏅 Calhoun, GA | 4 / 32 (347.3828) | 8 (171.9656) | 4 (175.4172) | 9 (166.2400) | — |
| 2025-04-11 | Smoke on the Falls BBQ Competition 🏅 Gadsden, AL | 20 / 31 (337.0628) | 21 (169.6800) | 20 (167.3828) | — | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 ↗ | Backyard | #37 (927 pts) | #37 (917 pts) | #48 (847 pts) | — | — |
| 2025 ↗ | Backyard | #130 (446 pts) | #117 (501 pts) | #144 (431 pts) | — | — |