High-water mark
669.1200
career-best overall
92.9% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 669.1200 at Lakeland Pig Festival — 92.9% of a perfect 720.
- Backyard
- Jan 25, 2019
Burnin' Buttz
Burnin' Buttz is a competition barbecue team with 8 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2017 and 2022. Their best overall finish is 5th of 58 at the Lakeland Pig Festival (2019).
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1536
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 4
Contests
8
in the data
First seen
Jan 27, 2017
latest Jan 28, 2022 · 5 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
2 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
25% of 8 contests
Best top-10 run
2
straight overall top-10s
Avg finish
top 26%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
38%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±8.28
spread of their Backyard (4-meat) overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 169.97 · weakest Brisket (161.25)
Road miles
12
across 8 mapped stops
Schedule strength
40%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1552)
Purse competed for
$75K
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 3 state-championship entries
Master avg
653.07 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Backyard (4-meat) avg
659.92 / 720
3 Backyard (4-meat) contests · 0 GCs
These overall scores sit on different scales (Master out of 720, Backyard (4-meat) out of 720), 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.
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to Burnin' Buttz, each with one reason worth a look.
Burnin' Buttz has 4 rated contests, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 78 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#2,053 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1537
Careers of much the same size, 6 contests to 8, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#2,056 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 100%
- Peak
- 1538
Their rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 5 contests, alongside a 100% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Compare careers#2,077 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1536
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 5 years before Burnin' Buttz's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#2,075 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1536
Level with Burnin' Buttz on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#2,068 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1536
Their last contest in the data was back in 2016, 6 years before Burnin' Buttz's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#2,054 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 50%
- Peak
- 1537
Careers of much the same size, 6 contests to 8, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careersBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 173.7028 | 167.9772 | 169.97 | top 21% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 173.1428 | 154.2628 | 164.27 | top 36% |
| Pork | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.0344 | 160.0228 | 162.72 | top 39% |
| Brisket | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 169.6800 | 150.7772 | 161.25 | top 31% |
“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.
Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lakeland Pig Festival | 4 | 5 | 0 | top 26% | Jan 28, 2022 |
More numbers
Contests a season
1
across 8 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
FL
8 of 8 contests
Contests visited
1
1 of them more than once
Opponents faced
245
finished ahead 289 times, behind 82
Longest layoff
2 yrs
Jan 24, 2020 → Jan 28, 2022
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20223 milestones
- Career-best single call (Chicken)173.7028 Lakeland Pig Festival
- Peak power rating (1536) Lakeland Pig Festival
- Most recent contest Lakeland Pig Festival
20193 milestones
- First call Lakeland Pig Festival
- First overall top-10 Lakeland Pig Festival
- Career-best overall score669.1200 Lakeland Pig Festival
20171 milestone
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score653.0744 Lakeland Pig Festival
20141 milestone
- First tracked contest The Tiger Town Pig Festival
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +14.8 | Lakeland Pig Festival | Jan 25, 2019 |
| +11.6 | Lakeland Pig Festival | Jan 24, 2020 |
| +8.4 | Lakeland Pig Festival | Jan 28, 2022 |
| +1.5 | Lakeland Pig Festival | Jan 27, 2017 |
Scores over time (% of a perfect score — tap a meat to add it)
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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 25% | 90.1% | 90.1% |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 15% | 91.9% | 91.9% |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 9% | 92.9% | 92.9% |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 55% | 90.7% | 90.7% |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 28, 2022 | Lakeland Pig Festival 🏅 Lakeland, FL | 15 / 60 (649.0400) | 2 (173.7028) | 17 (164.5372) | 20 (160.0228) | 28 (150.7772) |
| Jan 24, 2020 | Lakeland Pig Festival 🏅 Lakeland, FL | 8 / 53 (661.6120) | 9 (168.5372) | 18 (165.1204) | 22 (161.6800) | 8 (166.2744) |
| Jan 25, 2019 | Lakeland Pig Festival 🏅 Lakeland, FL | 5 / 58 (669.1200) | 9 (169.6684) | 3 (173.1428) | 11 (168.0344) | 20 (158.2744) |
| Jan 26, 2018 | Lakeland Pig Festival Lakeland, FL | — | — | — | — | — |
| Jan 27, 2017 | Lakeland Pig Festival Lakeland, FL | 33 / 60 (653.0744) | 28 (167.9772) | 47 (154.2628) | 37 (161.1544) | 17 (169.6800) |
| Jan 29, 2016 | Lakeland Pig Festival Lakeland, FL | — | — | — | — | — |
| Jan 30, 2015 | Lakeland Pig Festival Lakeland, FL | — | — | — | — | — |
| Jan 23, 2014 | The Tiger Town Pig Festival Lakeland, FL | — | — | — | — | — |