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.
142.5% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 513.1088 at Jack Daniel's World Championship Shade Tree Contest (BACKYARD) (JUDGES FULL) — 142.5% of a perfect 360.
Bentley Que ahead in 100% of their meetings
Bentley Que has come out ahead in 5 of their 5 shared contests.
Ahead in 100% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of HIT OR MISS BBQ in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
Off the trail for 2.6 years, then back at The High on the Hog Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) (2022-05-20).
Their overall swings ±18.80% of a perfect score around its own average — when it lands they're dangerous, and when it doesn't the weekend is gone by lunch.
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.
142 rated teams sit within a point of this rating, so a place on this list means the numbers match — no more than that.
Careers of much the same size, 7 contests to 9, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2023, 3 years before Black Label Smokers's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1515 at their best, 35 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Black Label Smokers on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2013, 6 years before Black Label Smokers's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2017, 9 years before Black Label Smokers's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head| Opponent | Meetings | Ahead | Behind | Win rate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LEE LA Q | 6 | 1 | 5 | 17% | ⚔ compare |
| Bentley Que | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 176.0000 | 150.2172 | 163.32 | top 59% |
| Pork Ribs | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 173.7144 | 154.2172 | 160.75 | top 63% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 171.9772 | 154.8000 | 163.39 | top 58% |
| 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.
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 6 | 0 | top 74% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 17% |
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High on the Hog Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) | 3 | 17 | 0 | top 67% | 2026-05-15 |
| The High on the Hog Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) | 3 | 22 | 0 | top 82% | 2024-05-17 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +11.9 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Shade Tree Contest (BACKYARD) (JUDGES FULL) | 2019-10-25 |
| +2.4 | High on the Hog Festival | 2019-04-19 |
| +0.6 | High on the Hog Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) | 2026-05-15 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -12.4 | High on the Hog Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) | 2025-05-16 |
| -10.8 | The High on the Hog Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) | 2024-05-17 |
| -6.5 | The High on the Hog Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) | 2022-05-20 |
| -5.2 | The High on the Hog Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) | 2023-05-19 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 59% | 93.2% | 93.2% |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 100% | 86.3% | 86.3% |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 92% | 88.4% | 88.4% |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 76% | 90.9% | 90.9% |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 76% | 89.7% | 89.7% |
| 2019 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 50% | top 30% | 142.5% | 114.6% |
| 2018 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-15 | High on the Hog Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Winchester, TN | 17 / 29 (335.4172) | 7 (176.0000) | 23 (159.4172) | — | — |
| 2025-05-16 | High on the Hog Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Winchester, TN | 32 / 32 (310.7200) | 32 (150.2172) | 30 (160.5028) | — | — |
| 2024-05-17 | The High on the Hog Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Winchester, TN | 36 / 39 (318.1716) | 30 (163.9544) | 39 (154.2172) | — | — |
| 2023-05-19 | The High on the Hog Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Winchester, TN | 26 / 34 (327.3372) | 11 (172.5600) | 29 (154.7772) | — | — |
| 2022-05-20 | The High on the Hog Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) 🏅 Winchester, TN | 22 / 29 (322.7656) | 24 (160.5256) | 18 (162.2400) | — | — |
| 2019-10-25 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Shade Tree Contest (BACKYARD) (JUDGES FULL) Lynchburg, TN | 7 / 42 (513.1088) | 16 (167.4172) | 5 (173.7144) | 7 (171.9772) | — |
| 2019-04-19 | High on the Hog Festival 🏅 Winchester, TN | 17 / 39 (311.9316) | 15 (157.0628) | 15 (154.8688) | — | — |
| 2018-10-26 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Shade Tree Contest (BACKYARD) (JUDGES FULL) Lynchburg, TN | — | 34 (158.8232) | 14 (166.2860) | 41 (154.8000) | — |
| 2018-04-20 | High on the Hog Festival Winchester, TN | — | — | — | — | — |