High-water mark
351.9772
career-best overall
97.8% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 351.9772 at 10th Annual Jimmy Jam BBQ Slam — 97.8% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2026-01-09
Rub N Butts
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1515
peak 1515 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
2026-01-09
latest 2026-01-09
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
2 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 13%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 176.56 · weakest Pork Ribs (169.70)
Road miles
2,351
mi across 4 mapped stops · furthest 2337 mi
Purse competed for
$12K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
351.98 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 0 GCs
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.
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 comeback
6 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 6 years, then back at All American Rib Cookoff (ONE MEAT RIBS) (2023-08-11).
- last seen 2017-08-25
- back 2023-08-11
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.
Rub N Butts 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 81 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.
#2637 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1515
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#2642 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2021, 5 years before Rub N Butts's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#2620 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1526
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 5 years before Rub N Butts's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2621 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 100%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
6 straight overall top-10s says this rating is a moving target.
⚔ Head-to-head#2635 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1519
No shared contest yet.
Level with Rub N Butts on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2627 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1519
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 7 years before Rub N Butts'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 | 1 | 176.5600 | 176.5600 | 176.56 | top 8% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 175.4172 | 163.9772 | 169.70 | top 20% |
| Pork | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 173.1200 | 173.1200 | 173.12 | top 26% |
| Brisket | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 171.4172 | 171.4172 | 171.42 | top 21% |
“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.
The story so far (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0 yrs
2026-01-09 → 2026-01-09
Busiest season
2026
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 4 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
CA
3 of 4 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
1
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
2 entries · 0 wins · 2 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 176.56 · weakest Pork Ribs (169.70)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 2 of 4 contests
Overall top-10 rate
25%
1 of 4 contests
Backyard average
351.98
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
64
55–8 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
2,351
4 mapped stops · furthest 2,337 mi
Purse competed for
$12,250
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
6 yrs
2017-08-25 → 2023-08-11
Power rating
1515
peak 1515 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2016
- First tracked contest Grills 'N' Grilles(presented by the United Way of Nevada Country)
- 2023
- First call All American Rib Cookoff (ONE MEAT RIBS)
- 2026
- First overall top-10 10th Annual Jimmy Jam BBQ Slam
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score351.9772 10th Annual Jimmy Jam BBQ Slam
- Career-best overall score351.9772 10th Annual Jimmy Jam BBQ Slam
- Career-best single call (Chicken)176.5600 10th Annual Jimmy Jam BBQ Slam
- Most recent contest 10th Annual Jimmy Jam BBQ Slam
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 13% | 97.8% | 97.8% |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | — | — | — |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-09 | 10th Annual Jimmy Jam BBQ Slam 🏅 St. Augustine, FL | 5 / 38 (351.9772) | 3 (176.5600) | 5 (175.4172) | 10 (173.1200) | 8 (171.4172) |
| 2023-08-11 | All American Rib Cookoff (ONE MEAT RIBS) Auburn, CA | — | — | 3 (163.9772) | — | — |
| 2017-08-25 | Grills N Grills penn Valley, CA | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2016-08-26 | Grills 'N' Grilles(presented by the United Way of Nevada Country) Penn Valley, CA | — | — | — | — | — |