High-water mark
481.5888
career-best overall
133.8% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 481.5888 at Smoking for a Reason(BACKYARD ONLY) — 133.8% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2019-08-23
Kicking Ash
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1492
peak 1492 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2019-08-23
latest 2019-08-23
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 82%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 165.13 · weakest Chicken (155.92)
Road miles
441
mi across 2 mapped stops · furthest 441 mi
Purse competed for
$4K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
Backyard avg
481.59 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Storylines (1 found in this team's record)
Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
Teams like this (closest power rating)
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.
Kicking Ash 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 129 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.
#3538 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1492
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3506 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1493
No shared contest yet.
Level with Kicking Ash on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3522 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2014, 5 years before Kicking Ash's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3537 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3527 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1492
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3542 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1510
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 155.9200 | 155.9200 | 155.92 | top 91% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 165.1316 | 165.1316 | 165.13 | top 55% |
| Pork | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 160.5372 | 160.5372 | 160.54 | top 73% |
| 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.
The story so far (15 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0 yrs
2019-08-23 → 2019-08-23
Busiest season
2019
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
AL
1 of 2 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
1
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
1 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 165.13 · weakest Chicken (155.92)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 1 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
50%
1 of 2 contests
Backyard average
481.59
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
10
2–8 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
441
2 mapped stops · furthest 441 mi
Purse competed for
$4,000
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
Longest layoff
4.2 yrs
2015-06-05 → 2019-08-23
Power rating
1492
peak 1492 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2015
- First tracked contest Up In Smoke On The Square
- 2019
- First call Smoking for a Reason(BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall top-10 Smoking for a Reason(BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score481.5888 Smoking for a Reason(BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best overall score481.5888 Smoking for a Reason(BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)165.1316 Smoking for a Reason(BACKYARD ONLY)
- Most recent contest Smoking for a Reason(BACKYARD ONLY)
Category scores over time
Overall finish over time (top-% of field, lower is better)
Where they finish (overall)
Best vs average (by meat)
How entries end (by meat)
Season by season
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 82% | 133.8% | 133.8% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-08-23 | Smoking for a Reason(BACKYARD ONLY) Fort Payne, AL | 9 / 11 (481.5888) | 10 (155.9200) | 6 (165.1316) | 8 (160.5372) | — |
| 2015-06-05 | Up In Smoke On The Square Lincoln, IL | — | — | — | — | — |