Master and Backyard overall scores sit on different scales (Master is out of 720, Backyard out of 360), so they're kept separate — averaging them together would be misleading.
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.
2014 was the year it came together: 3 contests, 0 Grand Championships and 0 category wins, at an average finish in the top 62%.
GIVE IT TO GOD ahead in 100% of their meetings
GIVE IT TO GOD has come out ahead in 5 of their 5 shared contests.
Ahead in 75% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of SMOKE BREAK - KS in 3 of their 4 shared contests.
Off the trail for 3.6 years, then back at Boss of the Sauce BBQ Festival (2021-04-09).
B & C SMOKERS ahead 100% of the time
Even in their strongest meat, B & C SMOKERS has out-cooked them in 5 of 5 shared pork entries.
Contest to contest, they've covered roughly 15,069 miles across 22 mapped stops — the longest single trip being 2,284 miles to BBQ Fest Panama.
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.
28 rated teams sit within a point of this rating, so a place on this list means the numbers match — no more than that.
These two have cooked 3 of the same contests — HIDDEN BOOGER BBQ ahead 2–1 — so there's a record behind this pairing and not just a matching number.
⚔ Head-to-headThis is the highest they've ever been rated, 14 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2019, 7 years before Brothers BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headCareers of much the same size, 20 contests to 22, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Brothers BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2013.
⚔ Head-to-head| Opponent | Meetings | Ahead | Behind | Win rate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| THE SMOKING HILLS | 5 | 1 | 4 | 20% | ⚔ compare |
| GIVE IT TO GOD | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| B & C SMOKERS | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| GETTIN' BASTED | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| Sublime BBQ | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| DIRT ROAD BBQ | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 166.3088 | 142.3200 | 155.34 | top 73% |
| Pork Ribs | 17 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 171.9998 | 144.0344 | 156.45 | top 68% |
| Pork | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.5372 | 137.1428 | 156.65 | top 75% |
| Brisket | 15 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 177.7600 | 112.0116 | 153.17 | top 62% |
“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.
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| MO | 4 | 0 | top 69% |
| KS | 3 | 0 | top 87% |
| GA | 2 | 0 | top 88% |
| NH | 1 | 0 | top 97% |
| FL | 1 | 0 | top 40% |
| LA | 1 | 0 | top 93% |
| AL | 1 | 0 | top 59% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 7 | 0 | top 88% |
| Large (40+) | 7 | 0 | top 67% |
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rock'n Ribville (GBC Qualifier) | 2 | 21 | 0 | top 88% | 2016-09-16 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +4.7 | Boss of the Sauce BBQ Festival | 2021-04-09 |
| +3.4 | 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open | 2014-10-02 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -13.9 | Border War Barbecue | 2013-10-25 |
| -13.3 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open | 2013-10-03 |
| -11.3 | Jim Bowie BBQ Throwdown | 2015-09-25 |
| -10.4 | Granite State BBQ Championship - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES | 2024-06-01 |
| -10 | Rock'n Ribville (GBC Qualifier) | 2016-09-16 |
| 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 83% | 80% | 80% |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | — | — | — |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 97% | 86.3% | 86.3% |
| 2021 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 40% | 83.6% | 83.6% |
| 2017 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | — | — | — |
| 2016 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25% | top 91% | 85.1% | 84.8% |
| 2015 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20% | top 76% | 90.1% | 88% |
| 2014 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33% | top 62% | 90.9% | 89.6% |
| 2013 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33% | top 85% | 89.8% | 84.2% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-21 | BBQ Fest Panama Panama, Pa | 19 / 23 (576.0224) | 6 (161.8056) | 14 (148.5484) | 22 (137.1428) | 22 (128.5256) |
| 2025-10-03 | Gladstone Smokefest (ONE MEAT RIBS) Gladstone, MO | — | — | 7 (169.6684) | — | — |
| 2024-06-01 | Granite State BBQ Championship - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES 🏅 Merrimack, NH | 36 / 37 (621.0628) | 35 (150.8000) | 37 (153.6916) | 34 (161.1312) | 30 (155.4400) |
| 2021-06-04 | The Original SD BBQ Championships - One Meat Standalone Ribs Contest Huron, SD | — | — | 25 (152.5144) | — | — |
| 2021-04-09 | Boss of the Sauce BBQ Festival 🏅 Jacksonville, FL | 16 / 40 (301.0972) | 18 (145.6800) | 10 (155.4172) | — | — |
| 2017-08-25 | New Holland Summer Fest New Holland, PA | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2017-06-09 | *Kentucky's Fort Harrod Beef Festival Grill-Off (COMPETITOR'S SERIES) Harrodsburg, KY | — | — | — | — | 4 (166.2744) |
| 2016-10-21 | Border War Barbeque Osawatomie, KS | 33 / 38 (612.4456) | 22 (165.1428) | 29 (157.6800) | 36 (147.3828) | 37 (142.2400) |
| 2016-09-16 | Rock'n Ribville (GBC Qualifier) Lawrenceville, GA | 37 / 39 (608.9832) | 36 (155.3828) | 37 (148.5488) | 38 (153.6800) | 35 (151.3716) |
| 2016-06-10 | KY Fort Harrod Beef Festival Grill-off(COMPETITOR'S SERIES) Harrodsburg, KY | — | — | — | — | 8 (154.2516) |
| 2016-03-25 | Hamond BBQ Hammond, LA | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2015-10-09 | Rock'n Ribville Lawrenceville, GA | 21 / 26 (621.6116) | 19 (156.5488) | 14 (165.1084) | 18 (155.4172) | 24 (144.5372) |
| 2015-10-03 | 36th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbeque- Open Kansas City, MO | 430 / 606 (634.2628) | 582 (142.8228) | 514 (151.9428) | 297 (164.0228) | 26 (175.4744) |
| 2015-09-25 | Jim Bowie BBQ Throwdown Vidalia, LA | 42 / 45 (629.5084) | 43 (154.2284) | 44 (146.8000) | 21 (168.5372) | 37 (159.9428) |
| 2015-05-15 | 20th Annual Platte City BBQ Cook-Off Platte City, MO | 31 / 51 (648.5940) | 40 (158.2512) | 40 (157.1772) | 41 (155.4056) | 2 (177.7600) |
| 2015-03-27 | Smokin Blues & BBQ Hammond, LA | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2014-10-02 | 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 277 / 552 (654.3316) | 234 (166.3088) | 445 (154.8228) | 297 (162.8800) | 96 (170.3200) |
| 2014-08-22 | Smokin' on Oak Bonner Springs, KS | 22 / 30 (635.9540) | 25 (156.5484) | 18 (161.0856) | 30 (150.8456) | 5 (167.4744) |
| 2014-03-21 | Hammond BBQ Hammond, LA | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2013-10-25 | Border War Barbecue Osawatomie, KS | 27 / 27 (600.5600) | 19 (160.5828) | 27 (144.0344) | 20 (159.9772) | 27 (135.9656) |
| 2013-10-03 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 509 / 535 (570.9832) | 507 (142.3200) | 320 (157.1660) | 288 (159.4856) | 528 (112.0116) |
| 2013-03-08 | BBQ Championship & Hog Wild Festival Mobile, AL | 33 / 56 (646.8566) | 43 (158.2860) | 7 (171.9998) | 39 (160.5710) | 40 (155.9998) |