High-water mark
447.4288
career-best overall
124.3% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 447.4288 at Lakeland Pig Festival — 124.3% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2022-01-28
Mike's BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1493
peak 1493 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2022-01-28
latest 2022-01-28
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 70%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 154.25 · weakest Pork (143.44)
Road miles
1,483
mi across 2 mapped stops · furthest 1483 mi
Purse competed for
$25K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
447.43 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 0 GCs
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.
Mike's BBQ has 1 rated contest — 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 126 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.
#3532 of the rated field
- Contests
- 10
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1504
0–1 in 1 shared contest (0% to Mike's BBQ)
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Mike's BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head#3538 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1492
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3506 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1493
No shared contest yet.
Level with Mike's BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3496 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 4 years before Mike's BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3522 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2014, 8 years before Mike's BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3537 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 5 years before Mike's BBQ'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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.2516 | 154.2516 | 154.25 | top 50% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 149.7372 | 149.7372 | 149.74 | top 55% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 143.4400 | 143.4400 | 143.44 | top 70% |
| 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.
The story so far (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0 yrs
2022-01-28 → 2022-01-28
Busiest season
2022
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
FL
1 of 2 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
1
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
1 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 154.25 · weakest Pork (143.44)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 2 contests
Backyard average
447.43
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
102
19–82 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
1,483
2 mapped stops · furthest 1,483 mi
Purse competed for
$24,960
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
8.3 yrs
2013-10-11 → 2022-01-28
Power rating
1493
peak 1493 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2013
- First tracked contest Bliss Brews & Que
- 2022
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score447.4288 Lakeland Pig Festival
- Career-best overall score447.4288 Lakeland Pig Festival
- Career-best single call (Chicken)154.2516 Lakeland Pig Festival
- Most recent contest Lakeland Pig Festival
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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 70% | 124.3% | 124.3% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-01-28 | Lakeland Pig Festival 🏅 Lakeland, FL | 42 / 60 (447.4288) | 30 (154.2516) | 33 (149.7372) | 42 (143.4400) | — |
| 2013-10-11 | Bliss Brews & Que Fort Bliss, TX | — | — | — | — | — |