Perfect scores on the board
1
perfect 180
1 perfect 180 in the data — every judge at the table handing back a nine, all in chicken.
- Chicken ×1
Blue Falcon
Blue Falcon is a competition barbecue team with 4 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2024 and 2026. They have won 1 Grand Championship, at the O'So Good BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Day 2 (2024). They finished #162 in the 2024 Backyard Series Team of the Year standings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1520
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 31 invitational or side-series contest not counted
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
May 3, 2024
latest May 24, 2026 · 2.1 years on the trail
Grand champs
1
0 reserve · wins it all 25% of the time
Category wins
0
2 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
25% of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 41%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
1 🔥
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±8.76
spread of their Backyard overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 177.70 · weakest Pork Ribs (170.26)
Road miles
156
across 4 mapped stops · furthest 156 mi
Schedule strength
67%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1585)
Purse competed for
$7,900
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
Backyard avg
343.38 / 360
4 Backyard contests · 1 GC
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
By meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 180 🔥 | 168.5256 | 173.12 | top 38% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 175.4288 | 162.8000 | 170.26 | top 46% |
| Pork | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 177.7028 | 177.7028 | 177.70 | top 9% |
“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.
By field size and state
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 3 | 1 | top 43% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 38% |
Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| O'So Good BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Day 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | top 29% | May 3, 2025 |
More numbers
Busiest season
2024
2 contests · 1 GC
Contests a season
1.3
across 3 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
AL
3 of 4 contests · 2 states in all
Contests visited
3
1 of them more than once
First title
May 4, 2024
O'So Good BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Day 2
Opponents faced
153
finished ahead 105 times, behind 89
Longest layoff
1.1 yrs
May 3, 2025 → May 24, 2026
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20261 milestone
20251 milestone
- Peak power rating (1520) O'So Good BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Day 2
20248 milestones
- First tracked contest O'So Good BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Day 1
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score331.3256 O'So Good BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Day 1
- First call O'So Good BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Day 2
- First overall top-10 O'So Good BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Day 2
- First overall podium O'So Good BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Day 2
- First Grand Championship O'So Good BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Day 2
- First perfect 180 (Chicken) O'So Good BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Day 2
- Career-best overall score355.4288 O'So Good BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Day 2
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +20 | O'So Good BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Day 2 | May 4, 2024 |
| +3.9 | O'So Good BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Day 2 | May 3, 2025 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -3.5 | O'So Good BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Day 1 | May 3, 2024 |
Scores over time (% of a perfect score — tap a meat to add it)
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 38% | 94.6% | 94.6% |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 52% | 96.2% | 96.2% |
| 2024 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 50% | top 38% | 98.7% | 95.4% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 2026 | 8th Annual KCBS World Invitational: Master Series Invitational and the Backyard Series Invitational (Sunday, May 24, 2026) unrated Lebanon, TN | 31 / 82 (340.5372) | 27 (172) | 33 (168.5372) | — | — |
| May 3, 2025 | O'So Good BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Day 2 Oneonta, AL | 12 / 23 (346.2284) | 11 (171.9656) | 9 (174.2628) | 2 (177.7028) | — |
| May 4, 2024 | O'So Good BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Day 2 Oneonta, AL | 1 / 20 (355.4288) | 2 (180) | 4 (175.4288) | — | — |
| May 3, 2024 | O'So Good BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Day 1 Oneonta, AL | 19 / 27 (331.3256) | 16 (168.5256) | 23 (162.8000) | — | — |
An unrated contest — an invitational, or a Competitor or Kosher Series board — is in the record but doesn’t move the power rating.