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.
94.6% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 340.5484 at Page County Heritage Festival - Backyard BBQ (BACKYARD ONLY) — 94.6% of a perfect 360.
Capt. Blue BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings
Capt. Blue BBQ has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
A tougher draw than 83% of rated fields
The fields they enter average a 1610 power rating — a tougher draw than 83% of every rated contest in the data.
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.
Bone A Fide has 3 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 144 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.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Bone A Fide on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2022, 3 years before Bone A Fide's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2015, 10 years before Bone A Fide's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2020, 5 years before Bone A Fide's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2018, 7 years before Bone A Fide'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 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 173.7028 | 146.8000 | 161.10 | top 68% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 166.8456 | 143.9428 | 154.63 | top 83% |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VA | 2 | 0 | top 84% |
| DE | 1 | 0 | top 64% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 2 | 0 | top 84% |
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 64% |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +5.3 | Page County Heritage Festival - Backyard BBQ (BACKYARD ONLY) | 2025-10-11 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -10.2 | Stoney Creek BBQ Cookoff | 2025-08-22 |
| -4.5 | First State BBQ Bash | 2025-09-26 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 33% | top 77% | 94.6% | 87.7% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-11 | Page County Heritage Festival - Backyard BBQ (BACKYARD ONLY) Luray, VA | 5 / 9 (340.5484) | 4 (173.7028) | 7 (166.8456) | — | — |
| 2025-09-26 | First State BBQ Bash 🏅 Milford, DE | 16 / 25 (306.7428) | 12 (162.8000) | 16 (143.9428) | — | — |
| 2025-08-22 | Stoney Creek BBQ Cookoff 🏅 Edinburg, VA | 18 / 16 (299.8972) | 18 (146.8000) | 17 (153.0972) | — | — |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 ↗ | Backyard | #245 (164 pts) | #230 (184 pts) | #263 (169 pts) | — | — |