High-water mark
682.7772
career-best overall
94.8% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 682.7772 at Papa Joe's Banjo-B-Que & Music Festival — 94.8% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2019-05-24
BACKWOOD BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1526
peak 1526 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2019-05-24
latest 2019-07-12
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 23%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Brisket
avg 173.12 · weakest Pork (165.12)
Road miles
44
mi across 2 mapped stops · furthest 44 mi
Purse competed for
$65K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
677.05 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs
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.
BACKWOOD BBQ has 2 rated contests — 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 70 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.
#2317 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1531
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2302 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 29%
- Peak
- 1529
No shared contest yet.
Level with BACKWOOD BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2311 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1526
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2016, 3 years before BACKWOOD BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2316 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1526
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 7 years after BACKWOOD BBQ did, first appearing in 2026.
⚔ Head-to-head#2304 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1526
No shared contest yet.
6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where BACKWOOD BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head#2312 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 50%
- Peak
- 1526
No shared contest yet.
3 straight overall top-10s says this rating is a moving target.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 177.7028 | 161.1200 | 169.41 | top 34% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.6800 | 169.1200 | 169.40 | top 37% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.7028 | 160.5372 | 165.12 | top 54% |
| Brisket | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 175.4172 | 170.8228 | 173.12 | top 13% |
“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 (14 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0.1 yrs
2019-05-24 → 2019-07-12
Busiest season
2019
2 contests
Cooks most in
SC
1 of 2 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Brisket
averages 173.12 · weakest Pork (165.12)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 1 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 2 contests
Master average
677.05
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
129
119–34 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
44
2 mapped stops · furthest 44 mi
Purse competed for
$65,000
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Power rating
1526
peak 1526 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2019
- First tracked contest Papa Joe's Banjo-B-Que & Music Festival
- First call Papa Joe's Banjo-B-Que & Music Festival
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score682.7772 Papa Joe's Banjo-B-Que & Music Festival
- Career-best overall score682.7772 Papa Joe's Banjo-B-Que & Music Festival
- Career-best single call (Chicken)177.7028 Papa Joe's Banjo-B-Que & Music Festival
- Most recent contest SC Festival of Discovery
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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 23% | 94.8% | 94% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-07-12 | SC Festival of Discovery 🏅 Greenwood, SC | 21 / 83 (671.3256) | 54 (161.1200) | 24 (169.6800) | 21 (169.7028) | 14 (170.8228) |
| 2019-05-24 | Papa Joe's Banjo-B-Que & Music Festival 🏅 Evans, GA | 15 / 72 (682.7772) | 2 (177.7028) | 32 (169.1200) | 59 (160.5372) | 7 (175.4172) |