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.
Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
Contest to contest, they've covered roughly 11,502 miles across 2 mapped stops — the longest single trip being 11,502 miles to Brew N Que Perth 2021.
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.
K Dog 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 150 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 K Dog BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2016, 5 years before K Dog BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2023, 3 years before K Dog BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2020, 6 years before K Dog 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 | 165.0856 | 148.5484 | 156.82 | top 88% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.6800 | 156.5600 | 159.12 | top 66% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 147.4172 | 147.4172 | 147.42 | top 91% |
| Brisket | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 166.8800 | 166.8800 | 166.88 | top 30% |
“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 88% | 90.8% | 90.8% |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 78% | 86% | 86% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-21 | Stoney Creek BBQ Cookoff 🏅 Edinburg, VA | 23 / 26 (326.7656) | 21 (165.0856) | 22 (161.6800) | — | — |
| 2021-12-03 | Brew N Que Perth 2021 Claremont, 6010 | 18 / 23 (619.4056) | 22 (148.5484) | 11 (156.5600) | 21 (147.4172) | 7 (166.8800) |