The comeback
6 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 6 years, then back at Christmas on the River State Bar B Q Championship (OPEN FORMAT) (2025-12-05).
- last seen 2019-12-06
- back 2025-12-05
Kickin' Butt BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1485
peak 1485 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
2019-12-06
latest 2025-12-05
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 84%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 154.80 · weakest Brisket (143.36)
Road miles
445
mi across 4 mapped stops · furthest 435 mi
Purse competed for
$14K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
605.53 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
306.72 / 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.
Storylines (1 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.
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.
Kickin' Butt 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 147 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.
#3890 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1485
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#3881 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
Level with Kickin' Butt BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3879 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1506
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#3911 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 5 years after Kickin' Butt BBQ did, first appearing in 2024.
⚔ Head-to-head#3869 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1486
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#3902 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1485
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-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.4172 | 150.2172 | 152.82 | top 89% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 156.5028 | 151.9544 | 154.23 | top 92% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.8000 | 154.8000 | 154.80 | top 124% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 143.3604 | 143.3604 | 143.36 | top 129% |
“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 (17 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
6 yrs
2019-12-06 → 2025-12-05
Busiest season
2025
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 4 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
AL
2 of 4 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 154.80 · weakest Brisket (143.36)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 4 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 4 contests
Master average
605.53
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Backyard average
306.72
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
65
10–58 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
445
4 mapped stops · furthest 435 mi
Purse competed for
$14,350
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
6 yrs
2019-12-06 → 2025-12-05
Power rating
1485
peak 1485 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2014
- First tracked contest Butts and Beans BBQ Challenge
- 2019
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)156.5028 COTR BBQ
- 2025
- Career-best overall score605.5320 Christmas on the River State Bar B Q Championship (OPEN FORMAT)
- Most recent contest Christmas on the River State Bar B Q Championship (OPEN FORMAT)
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 100% | 84.1% | 84.1% |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 68% | 85.2% | 85.2% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-05 | Christmas on the River State Bar B Q Championship (OPEN FORMAT) 🏅 Demopolis, AL | 21 / 21 (605.5320) | 24 (155.4172) | 25 (151.9544) | 26 (154.8000) | 27 (143.3604) |
| 2019-12-06 | COTR BBQ 🏅 Demopolis, AL | 17 / 25 (306.7200) | 16 (150.2172) | 16 (156.5028) | — | — |
| 2015-09-25 | Butts and Beans BBQ Challenge Newton, NC | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2014-09-26 | Butts and Beans BBQ Challenge Hickory, NC | — | — | — | — | — |