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.
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.
Smokin' Dad's Barbecue 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 162 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.
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Smokin' Dad's Barbecue has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2017, 8 years before Smokin' Dad's Barbecue's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Smokin' Dad's Barbecue on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2019, 6 years before Smokin' Dad's Barbecue's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2019, 6 years before Smokin' Dad's Barbecue'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 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 165.1544 | 153.6800 | 159.42 | top 62% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 171.4056 | 142.8344 | 157.12 | top 44% |
| 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 | 1 | 0 | top 100% |
| NC | 1 | 0 | top 44% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 100% |
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 44% |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 72% | 90.3% | 87.9% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-11 | Page County Heritage Festival - Backyard BBQ (BACKYARD ONLY) Luray, VA | 9 / 9 (325.0856) | 9 (153.6800) | 4 (171.4056) | — | — |
| 2025-09-26 | Fire in the Foothills 🏅 King, NC | 11 / 25 (307.9888) | 6 (165.1544) | 11 (142.8344) | — | — |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 ↗ | Backyard | #321 (106 pts) | #265 (151 pts) | #334 (106 pts) | — | — |