High-water mark
337.1200
career-best overall
93.6% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 337.1200 at Lakeland Pig Festival — 93.6% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2025-01-24
Liberty Smokehouse
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1506
peak 1509 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2025-01-24
latest 2026-01-22
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 44%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 171.41 · weakest Pork Ribs (164.26)
Road miles
0
mi across 2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$50K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
329.94 / 360
2 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Storylines (2 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.
The one to beat
2×
one call ahead of them
GOOD GOOGLY GOO BBQ has finished one call ahead of Liberty Smokehouse 2 times — their closest competition in the data.
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.
Liberty Smokehouse 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 114 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.
#2955 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2967 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2019, 6 years before Liberty Smokehouse's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#2946 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1511
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2023, 3 years before Liberty Smokehouse's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2952 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
Level with Liberty Smokehouse on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2966 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 8 years before Liberty Smokehouse's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2944 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1517
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 9 years before Liberty Smokehouse'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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171.4056 | 159.9544 | 165.68 | top 46% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.7144 | 162.8000 | 164.26 | top 57% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 172.5600 | 170.2628 | 171.41 | top 20% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.8344 | 163.9772 | 165.41 | top 36% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lakeland Pig Festival | 2 | 12 | 0 | top 44% | 2026-01-22 |
The story so far (15 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1 yrs
2025-01-24 → 2026-01-22
Busiest season
2026
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
FL
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
1
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 171.41 · weakest Pork Ribs (164.26)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 1 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 2 contests
Backyard average
329.94
out of 360 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
150
103–94 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
0
2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$50,000
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Power rating
1506
peak 1509 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2025
- First tracked contest Lakeland Pig Festival
- First call Lakeland Pig Festival
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score337.1200 Lakeland Pig Festival
- Career-best overall score337.1200 Lakeland Pig Festival
- Career-best single call (Pork)172.5600 Lakeland Pig Festival
- 2026
- Most recent contest Lakeland Pig 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 | 0% | top 59% | 89.7% | 89.7% |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 30% | 93.6% | 93.6% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-22 | Lakeland Pig Festival 🏅 Lakeland, FL | 37 / 63 (322.7544) | 38 (159.9544) | 28 (162.8000) | 11 (170.2628) | 19 (163.9772) |
| 2025-01-24 | Lakeland Pig Festival 🏅 Lakeland, FL | 12 / 40 (337.1200) | 13 (171.4056) | 28 (165.7144) | 9 (172.5600) | 17 (166.8344) |