High-water mark
337.6572
career-best overall
93.8% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 337.6572 at Big Smoke Bonnyville — 93.8% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2025-09-06
Cougar BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1515
peak 1515 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2025-05-24
latest 2025-09-06
Best ToY finish
#269
Backyard 2025
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
2 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 19%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Top-10 streak
2
and counting
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 165.95 · weakest Pork Ribs (155.97)
Road miles
137
mi across 2 mapped stops · furthest 69 mi
Backyard avg
321.92 / 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.
Cougar BBQ 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 90 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.
#2648 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1515
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2653 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1519
No shared contest yet.
Level with Cougar BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2642 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2646 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1518
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2022, 3 years before Cougar BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2645 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1515
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2013, 12 years before Cougar BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#2652 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1514
No shared contest yet.
6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Cougar BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 167.3828 | 164.5256 | 165.95 | top 14% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 170.2744 | 141.6572 | 155.97 | top 20% |
| 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 20% |
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 18% |
The story so far (13 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0.3 yrs
2025-05-24 → 2025-09-06
Busiest season
2025
2 contests
Cooks most in
AB
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 2 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 165.95 · weakest Pork Ribs (155.97)
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
321.92
out of 360 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
41
37–14 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
137
2 mapped stops · furthest 69 mi
Power rating
1515
peak 1515 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2025
- First tracked contest Embers and Ice Pitmaster Championship
- First call Embers and Ice Pitmaster Championship
- First overall top-10 Embers and Ice Pitmaster Championship
- First overall podium Big Smoke Bonnyville
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score337.6572 Big Smoke Bonnyville
- Career-best overall score337.6572 Big Smoke Bonnyville
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)170.2744 Big Smoke Bonnyville
- Most recent contest Big Smoke Bonnyville
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 | 2 | 0 | 100% | top 19% | 93.8% | 89.4% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-06 | Big Smoke Bonnyville Bonnyville, AB | 3 / 15 (337.6572) | 2 (167.3828) | 3 (170.2744) | — | — |
| 2025-05-24 | Embers and Ice Pitmaster Championship Calmar, AB | 6 / 34 (306.1828) | 5 (164.5256) | 7 (141.6572) | — | — |
Career map (orange GC · green top-10 · grey the rest — tap a pin)
Team of the Year standings (rank per category by season — year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 ↗ | Backyard | #269 (147 pts) | #258 (157 pts) | #297 (137 pts) | — | — |