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.
Pork Ribs is where the weekend gets away from them — it averages 4.93 points below their pork, and turns into a call 17% of the time against 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.
SMOKE IN THE GROVE 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 149 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 SMOKE IN THE GROVE has cooked, 5 to 25, which makes theirs the less settled rating of the two.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 5 years after SMOKE IN THE GROVE did, first appearing in 2024.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with SMOKE IN THE GROVE on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headFewer contests behind them than SMOKE IN THE GROVE has cooked, 5 to 25, which makes theirs the less settled rating of the two.
⚔ Head-to-headFewer contests behind them than SMOKE IN THE GROVE has cooked, 5 to 25, which makes theirs the less settled rating of the two.
⚔ Head-to-headFewer contests behind them than SMOKE IN THE GROVE has cooked, 5 to 25, which makes theirs the less settled rating of the two.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.4056 | 150.8228 | 159.89 | top 77% |
| Pork Ribs | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 176.0116 | 136.5372 | 155.31 | top 74% |
| Pork | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 168.5256 | 153.0856 | 160.24 | top 81% |
| 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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 93% | 124.9% | 124.9% |
| 2018 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25% | — | — | — |
| 2017 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25% | — | — | — |
| 2016 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2015 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2014 | 4 | 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 | 42 / 42 (449.6800) | 33 (159.4516) | 42 (136.5372) | 40 (153.6912) | — |
| 2019-05-11 | Dr.George Smith BBQ Brawl (COMPETITORS SERIES) unrated Murfreesboro, TN | 35 / 41 (475.3028) | 24 (163.9656) | 41 (142.1828) | — | — |
| 2018-09-21 | *First Tennessee Bank Bluegrass & BBQ (COMPETITOR'S SERIES)(JUDGES FULL) Columbia, TN | — | 12 (158.8228) | 11 (163.4284) | 10 (165.6684) | — |
| 2018-08-24 | *Great American BBQ Festival(JUDGES FULL) Franklin, TN | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2018-08-10 | Smokin in McMinnville McMinnville, TN | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2018-04-20 | High on the Hog Festival Winchester, TN | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2017-09-22 | First Tennessee Bank Bluegrass & BBQ (COMPETITOR'S SERIES)(JUDGES FULL) Columbia, TN | — | 16 (167.4056) | 4 (176.0116) | 15 (168.5256) | — |
| 2017-08-25 | Great American BBQ Festival Franklin, TN | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2017-08-11 | Smokin in McMinnville McMinnville, TN | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2017-04-21 | High on the Hog Festival Winchester, TN | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2016-10-28 | Dickson County Smoke Fest Dickson, TN | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2016-08-26 | Franklin BBQ Festival Presented By Franklin Noon Rotary Club Franklin, TN | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2016-08-12 | Smokin' In McMinnville McMinnville, TN | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2016-05-27 | Lewisburg Rotary Club BBQ Cookoff Lewisburg, TN | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2016-04-15 | High on the Hog Festival Winchester, TN | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2015-09-11 | Decatur Jaycee's 21st Annual Riverfest Decatur, AL | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2015-08-28 | Smoke in the Valley Pikeville, TN | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2015-08-07 | Smokin' in McMinnville McMinnville, TN | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2015-05-22 | Lewisburg Rotary Club BBQ CookOff Lewisburg, TN | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2015-04-24 | Backyard BBQ Brawl (Competitor's Series) Murfreesboro, TN | — | 18 (158.8572) | 22 (154.8572) | — | — |
| 2014-10-24 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Backyard Contest (BACKYARD) Lynchburg, TN | — | 41 (150.8228) | 29 (158.8572) | 35 (153.0856) | — |
| 2014-08-08 | Smokin' in McMinnville McMinnville, TN | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2014-05-24 | Lewisburg Rotary Club BBQ CookOff Lewisburg, TN | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2014-04-18 | High on the Hog Festival Winchester, TN | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2013-09-27 | Piggin' Around Woodbury, TN | — | — | — | — | — |