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.
132.7% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 477.6228 at Jack Daniel's World Championship Shade Tree Contest (BACKYARD) (JUDGES FULL) — 132.7% of a perfect 360.
2014 was the year it came together: 6 contests, 0 Grand Championships and 0 category wins, at an average finish in the top 48%.
Off the trail for 3 years, then back at Jack Daniel's World Championship Shade Tree Contest (BACKYARD) (JUDGES FULL) (2019-10-25).
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.
Hog-N-Honeys 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 142 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.
Fewer contests behind them than Hog-N-Honeys has cooked, 5 to 13, which makes theirs the less settled rating of the two.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 11 years after Hog-N-Honeys did, first appearing in 2025.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Hog-N-Honeys on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headFewer contests behind them than Hog-N-Honeys has cooked, 5 to 13, which makes theirs the less settled rating of the two.
⚔ Head-to-headFewer contests behind them than Hog-N-Honeys has cooked, 5 to 13, which makes theirs the less settled rating of the two.
⚔ Head-to-headFewer contests behind them than Hog-N-Honeys has cooked, 5 to 13, which makes theirs the less settled rating of the two.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.4056 | 139.9884 | 158.26 | top 69% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 170.2972 | 158.2512 | 164.27 | top 45% |
| Pork | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.8228 | 158.2628 | 162.82 | top 64% |
| 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.
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 88% | 132.7% | 132.7% |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | — | — | — |
| 2015 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2014 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 48% | 44.6% | 44.6% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-10-25 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Shade Tree Contest (BACKYARD) (JUDGES FULL) Lynchburg, TN | 37 / 42 (477.6228) | 38 (158.2516) | 26 (161.1084) | 37 (158.2628) | — |
| 2016-10-21 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Shade Tree Contest (BACKYARD) Lynchburg, TN | — | 16 (167.4056) | 6 (170.2972) | 18 (166.8228) | — |
| 2015-09-11 | Decatur Jaycee's 21st Annual Riverfest Decatur, AL | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2015-05-22 | Lewisburg Rotary Club BBQ CookOff Lewisburg, TN | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2015-04-17 | High on the Hog Festival Winchester, TN | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2015-04-10 | Smoke on the Falls Gadsden, AL | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2014-10-24 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Backyard Contest (BACKYARD) Lynchburg, TN | — | 19 (167.3944) | 14 (167.4056) | 25 (163.3828) | — |
| 2014-09-19 | 20th Annual Decatur Jaycee's Riverfest Decatur, AL | 36 / 75 (321.1316) | — | — | — | — |
| 2014-05-24 | Lewisburg Rotary Club BBQ CookOff Lewisburg, TN | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2014-05-16 | Cotton Pickin' BBQ Cookoff Hartselle, AL | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2014-04-18 | High on the Hog Festival Winchester, TN | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2014-04-11 | Smoke on the Falls Noccalula BBQ Fest Gadsden, AL | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2013-08-17 | I Grill Because I CARE (Competitor's Series) New Hope, AL | — | 24 (139.9884) | 17 (158.2512) | — | — |