High-water mark
346.2400
career-best overall
96.2% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 346.2400 at Big Creek BBQ Bash (BACKYARD ONLY) — 96.2% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2024-10-04
PIT PALS
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1521
peak 1521 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2024-10-04
latest 2025-10-03
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 28%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Top-10 streak
2
and counting
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 173.69 · weakest Pork Ribs (171.13)
Road miles
1
mi across 2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$6K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
Backyard avg
344.82 / 360
2 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Storylines (2 found in this team's record)
Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
Announced themselves early
4th
at their very first contest
Finished 4 of 19 at their very first tracked contest, Big Creek BBQ Bash (BACKYARD ONLY) (2024-10-04).
- 2024-10-04
- 19-team field
Teams like this (closest power rating)
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.
PIT PALS 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 81 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.
#2467 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1521
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2480 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1520
No shared contest yet.
Level with PIT PALS on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2479 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1521
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2022, 3 years before PIT PALS's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2469 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1521
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2016, 8 years before PIT PALS's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#2482 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1520
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2014, 11 years before PIT PALS's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2477 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1530
No shared contest yet.
6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where PIT PALS's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 174.2628 | 173.1200 | 173.69 | top 35% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 171.9772 | 170.2744 | 171.13 | top 40% |
| 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.
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 21% |
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 35% |
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Big Creek BBQ Bash (BACKYARD ONLY) | 2 | 4 | 0 | top 28% | 2025-10-03 |
The story so far (15 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1 yrs
2024-10-04 → 2025-10-03
Busiest season
2025
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
MO
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
1
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 2 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 173.69 · weakest Pork Ribs (171.13)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 2 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
100%
2 of 2 contests
Best top-10 run
2
straight contests — and still running
Backyard average
344.82
out of 360 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
33
30–10 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
1
2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$6,450
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
Power rating
1521
peak 1521 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2024
- First tracked contest Big Creek BBQ Bash (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First call Big Creek BBQ Bash (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall top-10 Big Creek BBQ Bash (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score346.2400 Big Creek BBQ Bash (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best overall score346.2400 Big Creek BBQ Bash (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best single call (Chicken)174.2628 Big Creek BBQ Bash (BACKYARD ONLY)
- 2025
- Most recent contest Big Creek BBQ Bash (BACKYARD ONLY)
Category scores over time
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 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 35% | 95.4% | 95.4% |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 21% | 96.2% | 96.2% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-03 | Big Creek BBQ Bash (BACKYARD ONLY) Pleasant Hill, MO | 8 / 23 (343.3944) | 9 (173.1200) | 10 (170.2744) | — | — |
| 2024-10-04 | Big Creek BBQ Bash (BACKYARD ONLY) Pleasant Hill, MO | 4 / 19 (346.2400) | 6 (174.2628) | 7 (171.9772) | — | — |