High-water mark
92.7% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 333.6344 at Iowa State BBQ Championship — 92.7% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2026-04-03
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here. Still inside their first twelve months: see what a first season usually looks like.
Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
92.7% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 333.6344 at Iowa State BBQ Championship — 92.7% of a perfect 360.
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.
Kolder Q 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 121 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.
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Kolder Q has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Kolder Q's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2023, 3 years before Kolder Q's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 6 contests, alongside a 17% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2016, 10 years before Kolder Q's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Kolder Q on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.0972 | 165.0972 | 165.10 | top 69% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.5372 | 168.5372 | 168.54 | top 40% |
| Pork | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
| 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 64% | 92.7% | 92.7% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-03 | Iowa State BBQ Championship 🏅 Altoona, IA | 27 / 42 (333.6344) | 29 (165.0972) | 17 (168.5372) | — | — |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 ↗ | Backyard | #300 (60 pts) | #304 (60 pts) | #278 (100 pts) | — | — |