The comeback
7.1 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 7.1 years, then back at Reelin N Smokin Backyard BBQ Competition (BACKYARD ONLY) (2025-06-13).
- last seen 2018-05-25
- back 2025-06-13
Naw-Da-Bone
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1479
peak 1479 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2025-06-13
latest 2025-06-20
Best ToY finish
#297
Backyard 2025
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 92%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 157.11 · weakest Chicken (145.65)
Road miles
427
mi across 3 mapped stops · furthest 292 mi
Purse competed for
$46K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
229.93 / 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.
Naw-Da-Bone 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 144 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.
#4166 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1479
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#4143 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1479
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2017, 8 years before Naw-Da-Bone's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#4169 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1479
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2022, 3 years before Naw-Da-Bone's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#4151 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1503
No shared contest yet.
Level with Naw-Da-Bone on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#4144 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1479
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 4 years before Naw-Da-Bone's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#4186 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1479
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 6 years before Naw-Da-Bone'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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 145.6456 | 145.6456 | 145.65 | top 100% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171.4288 | 142.7884 | 157.11 | top 63% |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 100% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 83% |
The story so far (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0 yrs
2025-06-13 → 2025-06-20
Busiest season
2025
2 contests
Contests a season
1.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
AL
2 of 3 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
2 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 157.11 · weakest Chicken (145.65)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 3 contests
Backyard average
229.93
out of 360 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
100
7–102 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
427
3 mapped stops · furthest 292 mi
Purse competed for
$45,600
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
7.1 yrs
2018-05-25 → 2025-06-13
Power rating
1479
peak 1479 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2018
- First tracked contest *10th Annual Gillett Heritage Days Festival BBQ cook off
- 2025
- Career-best overall score288.4340 Reelin N Smokin Backyard BBQ Competition (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)171.4288 Poosa Q
- Most recent contest Poosa Q
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 | 0% | top 92% | 80.1% | 63.9% |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-06-20 | Poosa Q 🏅 Montgomery, AL | 35 / 42 (171.4288) | — | 11 (171.4288) | — | — |
| 2025-06-13 | Reelin N Smokin Backyard BBQ Competition (BACKYARD ONLY) Huntsville, AL | 35 / 35 (288.4340) | 35 (145.6456) | 35 (142.7884) | — | — |
| 2018-05-25 | *10th Annual Gillett Heritage Days Festival BBQ cook off Gillett, AR | — | — | — | — | — |
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 | #297 (120 pts) | #371 (60 pts) | #239 (190 pts) | — | — |