A tough matchup
3–0
behind in the head-to-head
ALL FIRED UP BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings
ALL FIRED UP BBQ has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
Best Buckin' BBQ
Best Buckin' BBQ is a competition barbecue team with 4 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2023 and 2025. Their best overall finish is 22nd of 29 at the MD State BBQ Bash (2025). They finished #351 in the 2025 Backyard Series Team of the Year standings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1476
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 3
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
Oct 13, 2023
latest Oct 10, 2025 · 2 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
0% of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 108%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±18.32
spread of their Backyard overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 156.14 · weakest Pork Ribs (150.82)
Road miles
1,021
across 4 mapped stops · furthest 1,021 mi
Schedule strength
19%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1527)
Purse competed for
$38K
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 3 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
306.96 / 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)
By meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.2516 | 145.6684 | 156.14 | top 104% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.8116 | 135.4172 | 150.82 | top 107% |
“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.
Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MD State BBQ Bash | 2 | 22 | 0 | top 84% | Oct 10, 2025 |
More numbers
Contests a season
1
across 4 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
MD
3 of 4 contests · 2 states in all
Contests visited
2
1 of them more than once
Opponents faced
111
finished ahead 39 times, behind 145
Longest layoff
9.3 yrs
Jul 4, 2014 → Oct 13, 2023
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20251 milestone
- Most recent contest MD State BBQ Bash
20242 milestones
- Career-best overall score321.0632 MD State BBQ Bash
- Career-best single call (Chicken)162.2516 MD State BBQ Bash
20231 milestone
- Peak power rating (1485) Maryland State BBQ Bash
20141 milestone
- First tracked contest Sauce and Cycles
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -14.6 | Maryland State BBQ Bash | Oct 13, 2023 |
| -7 | MD State BBQ Bash | Oct 11, 2024 |
| -1.9 | MD State BBQ Bash | Oct 10, 2025 |
Scores over time (% of a perfect score — tap a meat to add it)
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 76% | 88.5% | 88.5% |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 92% | 89.2% | 89.2% |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 157% | 78.1% | 78.1% |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 10, 2025 | MD State BBQ Bash 🏅 Bel Air, MD | 22 / 29 (318.7432) | 19 (160.5144) | 22 (158.2288) | — | — |
| Oct 11, 2024 | MD State BBQ Bash 🏅 Bel Air, MD | 24 / 26 (321.0632) | 22 (162.2516) | 24 (158.8116) | — | — |
| Oct 13, 2023 | Maryland State BBQ Bash 🏅 Bel Air, MD | 36 / 23 (281.0856) | 37 (145.6684) | 35 (135.4172) | — | — |
| Jul 4, 2014 | Sauce and Cycles Falls City, NE | — | — | — | — | — |