Happy hunting ground
Top 16%
average finish here
Torry Island BBQ Showdown is their spot: an average finish in the top 16% across 3 visits.
- 3 visits
- best finish 3rd
- average top 16%
Cane Country BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1531
peak 1531 · rated over 3 contests ⓘ
Best runs
3
straight top-10s
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2024-03-01
latest 2026-03-20
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
3 podiums
Overall top-10s
3
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 16%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
330.82
last 3 Backyard vs avg 330.82 (-0.00)
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Top-10 streak
3
and counting
Consistency
±8.43
std dev of Backyard overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 168.37 · weakest Chicken (162.46)
Road miles
4
mi across 3 mapped stops
Schedule strength
27%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1537)
Purse competed for
$45K
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 3 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
330.82 / 360
3 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Storylines (5 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.
High-water mark
340.5372
career-best overall
94.6% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 340.5372 at Torry Island BBQ Showdown — 94.6% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2026-03-20
A tough matchup
3–0
behind in the head-to-head
Pompano Pit Kings ahead in 100% of their meetings
Pompano Pit Kings has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
A strong matchup
3–0
ahead in the head-to-head
Ahead in 100% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of K & E's Little Smokers in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
Announced themselves early
3rd
at their very first contest
Finished 3 of 21 at their very first tracked contest, Torry Island BBQ Showdown (2024-03-01).
- 2024-03-01
- 21-team field
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.
Cane Country BBQ has 3 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 76 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.
#2182 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1531
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#2185 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1531
No shared contest yet.
Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2024.
⚔ Head-to-head#2168 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1532
No shared contest yet.
3 straight overall top-10s says this rating is a moving target.
⚔ Head-to-head#2173 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1532
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2015, 11 years before Cane Country BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2166 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1532
No shared contest yet.
Level with Cane Country BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2172 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 29%
- Peak
- 1532
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 7 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 169.1200 | 157.1544 | 162.46 | top 17% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 171.4172 | 162.8228 | 168.37 | top 15% |
| 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.
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Torry Island BBQ Showdown | 3 | 3 | 0 | top 16% | 2026-03-20 |
The story so far (18 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
2.1 yrs
2024-03-01 → 2026-03-20
Busiest season
2026
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 3 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
FL
3 of 3 contests
Contests visited
1
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
3 entries · 0 wins · 3 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 168.37 · weakest Chicken (162.46)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 3 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
100%
3 of 3 contests
Best top-10 run
3
straight contests — and still running
Backyard average
330.82
out of 360 · 3 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
79
92–20 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
4
3 mapped stops
Schedule strength
1537
average field rating faced — tougher than 27% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$45,450
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 3 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
1.1 yrs
2024-03-01 → 2025-03-21
Power rating
1531
peak 1531 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2024
- First tracked contest Torry Island BBQ Showdown
- First call Torry Island BBQ Showdown
- First overall top-10 Torry Island BBQ Showdown
- First overall podium Torry Island BBQ Showdown
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score331.9544 Torry Island BBQ Showdown
- 2026
- Career-best overall score340.5372 Torry Island BBQ Showdown
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)171.4172 Torry Island BBQ Showdown
- Peak power rating (1531) Torry Island BBQ Showdown
- Most recent contest Torry Island BBQ Showdown
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +12.4 | Torry Island BBQ Showdown | 2026-03-20 |
| +12 | Torry Island BBQ Showdown | 2024-03-01 |
| +6.9 | Torry Island BBQ Showdown | 2025-03-21 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 12% | 94.6% | 94.6% |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 23% | 88.9% | 88.9% |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 14% | 92.2% | 92.2% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-20 | Torry Island BBQ Showdown 🏅 Belle Glade, FL | 4 / 34 (340.5372) | 3 (169.1200) | 5 (171.4172) | — | — |
| 2025-03-21 | Torry Island BBQ Showdown 🏅 Belle Glade, FL | 6 / 26 (319.9772) | 7 (157.1544) | 4 (162.8228) | — | — |
| 2024-03-01 | Torry Island BBQ Showdown 🏅 Belle Glade, FL | 3 / 21 (331.9544) | 3 (161.0972) | 3 (170.8572) | — | — |