High-water mark
335.9544
career-best overall
93.3% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 335.9544 at Trekking for CDH — 93.3% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2024-09-14
Better BBQ Co
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1506
peak 1507 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2024-09-14
latest 2025-09-13
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 49%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
33%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 168.54 · weakest Chicken (165.96)
Road miles
0
mi across 3 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$17K
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
332.22 / 360
2 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Storylines (1 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.
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.
Better BBQ Co 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 120 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.
#2955 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#2967 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2019, 5 years before Better BBQ Co's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#2946 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1511
No shared contest yet.
Level with Better BBQ Co on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2952 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2022, 3 years before Better BBQ Co's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2966 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 7 years before Better BBQ Co's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2944 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1517
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 8 years before Better BBQ Co's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2400 | 165.6800 | 165.96 | top 41% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 173.1200 | 162.2400 | 168.54 | top 47% |
| 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.
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trekking for CDH | 2 | 12 | 0 | top 49% | 2025-09-13 |
The story so far (15 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1 yrs
2024-09-14 → 2025-09-13
Busiest season
2025
2 contests
Contests a season
1.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
IL
3 of 3 contests
Contests visited
1
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
3 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 168.54 · weakest Chicken (165.96)
Walk rate
33%
a top-10 call in 1 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 3 contests
Backyard average
332.22
out of 360 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
80
53–54 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
0
3 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$17,350
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Power rating
1506
peak 1507 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2024
- First tracked contest Trekking for CDH
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score335.9544 Trekking for CDH
- Career-best overall score335.9544 Trekking for CDH
- 2025
- First call Trekking for CDH (ONE MEAT RIBS)
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)173.1200 Trekking for CDH (ONE MEAT RIBS)
- Most recent contest Trekking for CDH
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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 63% | 91.2% | 91.2% |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 34% | 93.3% | 93.3% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-13 | Trekking for CDH 🏅 Pierron, IL | 17 / 27 (328.4800) | 12 (166.2400) | 19 (162.2400) | — | — |
| 2025-09-13 | Trekking for CDH (ONE MEAT RIBS) Pierron, IL | — | — | 7 (173.1200) | — | — |
| 2024-09-14 | Trekking for CDH 🏅 Pierron, IL | 12 / 35 (335.9544) | 13 (165.6800) | 12 (170.2744) | — | — |