High-water mark
92.4% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 332.5256 at Lakeland Pig Festival — 92.4% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2026-01-22
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here. Still inside their first twelve months: see what a first season usually looks like.
Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
92.4% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 332.5256 at Lakeland Pig Festival — 92.4% of a perfect 360.
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.
GJQ George Jenkins High has 1 rated contest — 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 118 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.
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team GJQ George Jenkins High has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where GJQ George Jenkins High's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2017, 9 years before GJQ George Jenkins High's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with GJQ George Jenkins High on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2023, 3 years before GJQ George Jenkins High's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2022, 4 years before GJQ George Jenkins High's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.4056 | 167.4056 | 167.41 | top 29% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.1200 | 165.1200 | 165.12 | top 43% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.8344 | 158.8344 | 158.83 | top 62% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.1428 | 157.1428 | 157.14 | top 52% |
“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.
| 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 33% | 92.4% | 92.4% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-22 | Lakeland Pig Festival 🏅 Lakeland, FL | 21 / 63 (332.5256) | 18 (167.4056) | 27 (165.1200) | 39 (158.8344) | 33 (157.1428) |