High-water mark
93.0% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 334.8112 at Smokin Downtown (BACKYARD ONLY) — 93.0% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2025-08-09
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
93.0% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 334.8112 at Smokin Downtown (BACKYARD ONLY) — 93.0% of a perfect 360.
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.
Witts End BBQ has 1 rated contest — 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 119 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.
5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Witts End BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Witts End BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2022, 3 years before Witts End BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2015, 10 years before Witts End BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2016, 9 years before Witts End BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2014, 11 years before Witts End BBQ'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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.1084 | 165.1084 | 165.11 | top 72% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 169.7028 | 169.7028 | 169.70 | 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.
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 67% | 93% | 93% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-08-09 | Smokin Downtown (BACKYARD ONLY) Warsaw, IN | 12 / 18 (334.8112) | 13 (165.1084) | 8 (169.7028) | — | — |