#2901 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1515
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headBustin Butts & Kickin Ash
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1508
peak 1508 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2024-07-26
latest 2025-07-25
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 38%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 157.39 · weakest Pork Ribs (153.67)
Road miles
0
mi across 2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$17K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
311.07 / 360
2 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
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.
Bustin Butts & Kickin Ash 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.
#2919 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2017, 7 years before Bustin Butts & Kickin Ash's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#2903 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1513
No shared contest yet.
Level with Bustin Butts & Kickin Ash on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2906 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 50%
- Peak
- 1527
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2022, 3 years before Bustin Butts & Kickin Ash's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2924 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1519
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 6 years before Bustin Butts & Kickin Ash's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2915 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1512
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 7 years before Bustin Butts & Kickin Ash'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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 168.5600 | 146.2284 | 157.39 | top 30% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 161.1316 | 146.2172 | 153.67 | top 35% |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smoke on the Mountain | 2 | 12 | 0 | top 38% | 2025-07-25 |
The story so far (15 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1 yrs
2024-07-26 → 2025-07-25
Busiest season
2025
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
VA
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
1
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 157.39 · weakest Pork Ribs (153.67)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 2 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 2 contests
Backyard average
311.07
out of 360 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
66
46–48 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
0
2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$17,000
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Power rating
1508
peak 1508 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2024
- First tracked contest Smoke on the Mountain
- First call Smoke on the Mountain
- Career-best overall score314.7772 Smoke on the Mountain
- Career-best single call (Chicken)168.5600 Smoke on the Mountain
- 2025
- Most recent contest Smoke on the Mountain
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 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 38% | 85.4% | 85.4% |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 38% | 87.4% | 87.4% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-07-25 | Smoke on the Mountain 🏅 Galax, VA | 14 / 37 (307.3600) | 14 (146.2284) | 10 (161.1316) | — | — |
| 2024-07-26 | Smoke on the Mountain 🏅 Galax, VA | 12 / 32 (314.7772) | 7 (168.5600) | 14 (146.2172) | — | — |