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.
129.2% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 465.0400 at Jack Daniel's World Championship Shade Tree Contest (BACKYARD) (JUDGES FULL) — 129.2% of a perfect 360.
Off the trail for 5 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.
Hickory Critters 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 132 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 3.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Hickory Critters on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 9 contests, alongside a 33% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2013, 6 years before Hickory Critters's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164.5600 | 158.8344 | 161.70 | top 74% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 152.5028 | 145.6800 | 149.09 | top 93% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.5256 | 154.2168 | 157.37 | top 80% |
| 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 93% | 129.2% | 129.2% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 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 | 39 / 42 (465.0400) | 35 (158.8344) | 39 (145.6800) | 33 (160.5256) | — |
| 2014-10-24 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Backyard Contest (BACKYARD) Lynchburg, TN | — | 27 (164.5600) | 39 (152.5028) | 34 (154.2168) | — |
| 2013-09-13 | Decatur Jaycees 19th Annual Riverfest Decatur, AL | — | — | — | — | — |