High-water mark
340.5484
career-best overall
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.
- Backyard
- Oct 11, 2025
Bone A Fide
Bone A Fide is a competition barbecue team with 3 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record in 2025. Their best overall finish is 5th of 9 at the Page County Heritage Festival - Backyard BBQ (BACKYARD ONLY) (2025). They finished #245 in the 2025 Backyard Series Team of the Year standings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1491
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 3
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
Aug 22, 2025
latest Oct 11, 2025
Overall top-10s
1
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 77%
overall standings
Walk rate
33%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±17.77
spread of their Backyard overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 161.10 · weakest Pork Ribs (154.63)
Road miles
335
across 3 mapped stops · furthest 168 mi
Schedule strength
83%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1610)
Purse competed for
$9,300
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
Backyard avg
315.73 / 360
3 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 ↗ | Backyard | #245 (164 pts) | #230 (184 pts) | #263 (169 pts) | — | — |
By meat
| 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% |
“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.
More numbers
Most contests held in
VA
2 of 3 contests · 2 states in all
Contests visited
3
a different one every time
Opponents faced
65
finished ahead 13 times, behind 67
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20258 milestones
- First tracked contest Stoney Creek BBQ Cookoff
- First call Page County Heritage Festival - Backyard BBQ (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall top-10 Page County Heritage Festival - Backyard BBQ (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score340.5484 Page County Heritage Festival - Backyard BBQ (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best overall score340.5484 Page County Heritage Festival - Backyard BBQ (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best single call (Chicken)173.7028 Page County Heritage Festival - Backyard BBQ (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Peak power rating (1491) Page County Heritage Festival - Backyard BBQ (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Most recent contest Page County Heritage Festival - Backyard BBQ (BACKYARD ONLY)
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 11, 2025 | Page County Heritage Festival - Backyard BBQ (BACKYARD ONLY) Luray, VA | 5 / 9 (340.5484) | 4 (173.7028) | 7 (166.8456) | — | — |
| Sep 26, 2025 | First State BBQ Bash 🏅 Milford, DE | 16 / 25 (306.7428) | 12 (162.8000) | 16 (143.9428) | — | — |
| Aug 22, 2025 | Stoney Creek BBQ Cookoff 🏅 Edinburg, VA | 18 / 16 (299.8972) | 18 (146.8000) | 17 (153.0972) | — | — |