This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
The ratings favoured the top seed the other 87 times in 100
Their Grand Championship at Smoke & Fire (BACKYARD ONLY) (2025-04-25) came as the ratings underdog — roughly a 13-in-100 shot against the field's top-rated team, WEEZ'S GROOVIN' BBQ.
Their power rating has climbed 28 points across 4 contests since 2026-04-24 — from 1555 up to 1583.
Smoke & Fire (BACKYARD ONLY) is their spot: 1 Grand Championship in 2 visits.
96.8% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 348.5372 at Smoke & Fire (BACKYARD ONLY) — 96.8% of a perfect 360.
SPITFIRE has finished one call ahead of Briskey Business BBQ 2 times — their closest competition in the data.
SASSY SMOKE BBQ ahead in 75% of their meetings
SASSY SMOKE BBQ has come out ahead in 6 of their 8 shared contests.
Ahead in 86% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of SMOKEY GQ in 6 of their 7 shared contests.
DAWGS BBQ ahead 89% of the time
Even in their strongest meat, DAWGS BBQ has out-cooked them in 8 of 9 shared chicken entries.
Finished 1 of 24 at their very first tracked contest, Smoke & Fire (BACKYARD ONLY) (2025-04-25).
WEEZ'S GROOVIN' BBQ has landed one call behind them 3 times.
Something about May: average finish in the top 20% across 4 contests, versus top 29% the rest of the year.
Their overall lands within ±1.89% of a perfect score of their own average — whatever the field, you know roughly what they'll turn in.
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.
35 rated teams sit within a point of this rating, so a place on this list means the numbers match — no more than that.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2022, 4 years before Briskey Business BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headThis is the highest they've ever been rated, 8 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Head-to-headCareers of much the same size, 11 contests to 12, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir rating is built on 2 Grand Championships in 12 contests, alongside a 83% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Briskey Business BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2017, 8 years before Briskey Business BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head| Opponent | Meetings | Ahead | Behind | Win rate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Big Bear BBQ | 9 | 5 | 4 | 56% | ⚔ compare |
| Sensuous BBQ | 9 | 5 | 4 | 56% | ⚔ compare |
| DAWGS BBQ | 9 | 3 | 6 | 33% | ⚔ compare |
| FENDER BENDER BBQ | 8 | 4 | 4 | 50% | ⚔ compare |
| SASSY SMOKE BBQ | 8 | 2 | 6 | 25% | ⚔ compare |
| SMOKEY GQ | 7 | 6 | 1 | 86% | ⚔ compare |
| Big Ten Bones | 7 | 4 | 3 | 57% | ⚔ compare |
| Big Mike's Smokehouse | 6 | 5 | 1 | 83% | ⚔ compare |
| Natural Born Grillers | 6 | 5 | 1 | 83% | ⚔ compare |
| Unknown Smokers | 5 | 5 | 0 | 100% | ⚔ compare |
| WEEZ'S GROOVIN' BBQ | 5 | 3 | 2 | 60% | ⚔ compare |
| BBQ Pit Bros | 5 | 2 | 3 | 40% | ⚔ compare |
| Porket About It | 5 | 2 | 3 | 40% | ⚔ compare |
| Bramble BBQ | 5 | 1 | 4 | 20% | ⚔ compare |
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 9 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 178.8572 | 164.5488 | 170.97 | top 38% |
| Pork Ribs | 12 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 176.5828 | 163.4172 | 168.17 | top 45% |
| Pork | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
| Brisket | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
“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.
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| MN | 5 | 0 | top 24% |
| WI | 2 | 1 | top 17% |
| IA | 2 | 0 | top 55% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 3 | 0 | top 50% |
| Medium (20–39) | 4 | 1 | top 21% |
| Large (40+) | 2 | 0 | top 14% |
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smoke & Fire (BACKYARD ONLY) | 2 | 1 | 1 | top 17% | 2026-04-24 |
| Minnesota in May | 2 | 4 | 0 | top 14% | 2026-05-08 |
| Art of the Que (Backyard 2) | 2 | 5 | 0 | top 55% | 2025-06-27 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +19.8 | Smoke & Fire (BACKYARD ONLY) | 2025-04-25 |
| +15 | Minnesota in May | 2025-05-09 |
| +13 | Spring into Summer Backyard BBQ Competition (BACKYARD ONLY) | 2026-05-29 |
| +10.5 | Smoke & Fire (BACKYARD ONLY) | 2026-04-24 |
| +10.1 | Art of the Que (Masters and Backyard 1) | 2025-06-27 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -4.7 | Art of the Que (Backyard 2) | 2025-06-27 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 60% | top 25% | 96.3% | 94.7% |
| 2025 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 57% | top 32% | 96.8% | 94.3% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-15 | Boomer Backyard BBQ Cookoff (BACKYARD ONLY) Canton, MN | 7 / 18 (345.7028) | 14 (169.1200) | 3 (176.5828) | — | — |
| 2026-05-29 | Spring into Summer Backyard BBQ Competition (BACKYARD ONLY) Owatonna, MN | 3 / 25 (346.8228) | 2 (178.8572) | 10 (167.9656) | — | — |
| 2026-05-08 | Minnesota in May 🏅 St. Peter, MN | 16 / 77 (331.3372) | 15 (166.2400) | 18 (165.0972) | — | — |
| 2026-05-08 | Minnesota in May (ONE MEAT RIBS) St. Peter, MN | — | — | 31 (165.6800) | — | — |
| 2026-04-24 | Smoke & Fire (BACKYARD ONLY) Stanley, WI | 7 / 24 (340.0000) | 4 (175.4172) | 16 (164.5828) | — | — |
| 2025-06-27 | Art of the Que (Backyard 2) Spencer, IA | 13 / 17 (327.9660) | 14 (164.5488) | 10 (163.4172) | — | — |
| 2025-06-27 | Art of the Que (Masters and Backyard 1) 🏅 Spencer, IA | 5 / 15 (337.0972) | 9 (168.5372) | 6 (168.5600) | — | — |
| 2025-06-27 | Art of the Que (One Meat Ribs) Spencer, IA | — | — | 11 (166.2516) | — | — |
| 2025-05-30 | Smokin' in Steele 🏅 Owatonna, MN | 11 / 28 (337.7028) | 11 (168.5600) | 12 (169.1428) | — | — |
| 2025-05-09 | Minnesota in May 🏅 St. Peter, MN | 4 / 58 (345.7028) | 13 (173.1544) | 6 (172.5484) | — | — |
| 2025-05-09 | Minnesota in May (ONE MEAT RIBS) St. Peter, MN | — | — | 33 (163.9884) | — | — |
| 2025-04-25 | Smoke & Fire (BACKYARD ONLY) Stanley, WI | 1 / 24 (348.5372) | 4 (174.2628) | 2 (174.2744) | — | — |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 ↗ | Backyard | #74 (632 pts) | #71 (657 pts) | #85 (592 pts) | — | — |
| 2026 ↗ | Master | — | — | #1051 (60 pts) | — | — |
| 2025 ↗ | Backyard | #58 (869 pts) | #86 (659 pts) | #69 (809 pts) | — | — |
| 2025 ↗ | Master | — | — | #886 (167 pts) | — | — |