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.
170.4% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 613.3712 at SmokeHouse Barbeque Showdown (OPEN FORMAT) (REGISTRATION FULL) — 170.4% 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.
Rural Rumps BBQ has 2 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 152 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.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Rural Rumps BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2023, 3 years before Rural Rumps BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2013, 12 years before Rural Rumps BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2021, 5 years before Rural Rumps BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2021, 5 years before Rural Rumps 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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.2284 | 157.7028 | 157.97 | top 133% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.0856 | 146.7428 | 153.91 | top 130% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.5028 | 151.3716 | 155.94 | top 127% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 147.8972 | 147.8972 | 147.90 | top 165% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 76% | 170.4% | 170.4% |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 89% | 88.6% | 88.6% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-01 | SmokeHouse Barbeque Showdown (OPEN FORMAT) (REGISTRATION FULL) 🏅 Cambridge, IA | 13 / 17 (613.3712) | 29 (158.2284) | 31 (146.7428) | 27 (160.5028) | 28 (147.8972) |
| 2025-07-11 | Great River Threshers BBQ Contest (BACKYARD ONLY) (Day 1) Miles, IA | 16 / 18 (318.7884) | 17 (157.7028) | 14 (161.0856) | 17 (151.3716) | — |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 ↗ | Backyard | #335 (88 pts) | #345 (83 pts) | #342 (98 pts) | — | — |