#3297 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1514
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headFree Bird BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1498
peak 1498 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2018-07-27
latest 2026-03-06
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 63%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 173.12 · weakest Brisket (145.07)
Road miles
932
mi across 2 mapped stops · furthest 932 mi
Purse competed for
$12K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Master avg
459.31 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
344.53 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 0 GCs
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.
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.
Free Bird 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 123 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.
#3295 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2023, 3 years before Free Bird BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3285 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
Level with Free Bird BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3288 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1509
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 9 years before Free Bird BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3301 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2013, 5 years before Free Bird BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3296 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 9 years before Free Bird BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 173.1200 | 173.1200 | 173.12 | top 16% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171.4056 | 153.6800 | 162.54 | top 59% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.5256 | 160.5600 | 164.54 | top 58% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 145.0744 | 145.0744 | 145.07 | top 96% |
“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 state / province
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| GA | 1 | 0 | top 25% |
| KS | 1 | 0 | top 100% |
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 100% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 25% |
The story so far (17 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
7.6 yrs
2018-07-27 → 2026-03-06
Busiest season
2026
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
GA
1 of 2 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
2 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 173.12 · weakest Brisket (145.07)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 1 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 2 contests
Master average
459.31
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Backyard average
344.53
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
102
55–46 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
932
2 mapped stops · furthest 932 mi
Purse competed for
$12,100
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
7.6 yrs
2018-07-27 → 2026-03-06
Power rating
1498
peak 1498 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2018
- First tracked contest Dodge City Days Smokin' Saddles BBQ Contest
- Career-best overall score459.3144 Dodge City Days Smokin' Saddles BBQ Contest
- 2026
- First call Sip & Swine BBQ Festival
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score344.5256 Sip & Swine BBQ Festival
- Career-best single call (Chicken)173.1200 Sip & Swine BBQ Festival
- Most recent contest Sip & Swine BBQ Festival
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 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 25% | 95.7% | 95.7% |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 100% | 63.8% | 63.8% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-06 | Sip & Swine BBQ Festival 🏅 Lawrenceville, GA | 11 / 44 (344.5256) | 7 (173.1200) | 14 (171.4056) | 15 (168.5256) | — |
| 2018-07-27 | Dodge City Days Smokin' Saddles BBQ Contest Dodge City, KS | 27 / 27 (459.3144) | — | 23 (153.6800) | 22 (160.5600) | 26 (145.0744) |