High-water mark
343.4288
career-best overall
95.4% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 343.4288 at WhistleStop BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) — 95.4% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- Oct 16, 2026
Naw-Da-Bone
Naw-Da-Bone is a competition barbecue team with 5 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2025 and 2026. Their best overall finish is 8th of 43 at the WhistleStop BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) (2026). They finished #297 in the 2025 Backyard Series Team of the Year standings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1492
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 4
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
Jun 13, 2025
latest Oct 16, 2026 · 1.3 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
20% of 5 contests
Avg finish
top 69%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
40%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±67.16
spread of their Backyard overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 162.24 · weakest Pork Ribs (160.83)
Road miles
594
across 5 mapped stops · furthest 281 mi
Schedule strength
54%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1569)
Purse competed for
$62K
listed at 4 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 2 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
282.51 / 360
4 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the 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) | — | — |
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to Naw-Da-Bone, each with one reason worth a look.
Naw-Da-Bone has 4 rated contests, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 142 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#3,564 of the rated field
- Contests
- 10
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 10%
- Peak
- 1510
0–1 in 1 shared contest (0% to Naw-Da-Bone)
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Naw-Da-Bone has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head#3,576 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1512
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#3,550 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1492
Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2025.
⚔ Compare careers#3,527 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1493
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 5 years before Naw-Da-Bone's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#3,569 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1505
Level with Naw-Da-Bone on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#3,530 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 9 years before Naw-Da-Bone's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careersBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 173.7028 | 145.6456 | 162.24 | top 54% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171.4288 | 142.7884 | 160.83 | top 61% |
“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 field size and state
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 75% |
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 100% |
| Large (40+) | 2 | 0 | top 51% |
More numbers
Busiest season
2026
2 contests
Contests a season
1.7
across 3 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
AL
4 of 5 contests · 2 states in all
Contests visited
4
a different one every time
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
4 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Opponents faced
156
finished ahead 57 times, behind 131
Longest layoff
7.1 yrs
May 25, 2018 → Jun 13, 2025
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20267 milestones
- First call Mike Gannon BBQ Cookoff
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score326.7656 Mike Gannon BBQ Cookoff
- First overall top-10 WhistleStop BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best overall score343.4288 WhistleStop BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best single call (Chicken)173.7028 WhistleStop BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Peak power rating (1492) WhistleStop BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Most recent contest WhistleStop BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
20181 milestone
- First tracked contest 10th Annual Gillett Heritage Days Festival BBQ cook off
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +13.1 | WhistleStop BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) | Oct 16, 2026 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -13.3 | Reelin N Smokin Backyard BBQ Competition (BACKYARD ONLY) | Jun 13, 2025 |
| -7.7 | Poosa Q | Jun 20, 2025 |
| -0.1 | Mike Gannon BBQ Cookoff | Sep 18, 2026 |
Scores over time (% of a perfect score — tap a meat to add it)
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 47% | 95.4% | 93.1% |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 16, 2026 | WhistleStop BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Huntsville, AL | 8 / 43 (343.4288) | 8 (173.7028) | 13 (169.7260) | — | — |
| Sep 18, 2026 | Mike Gannon BBQ Cookoff 🏅 Columbiana, AL | 12 / 16 (326.7656) | 7 (167.3828) | 14 (159.3828) | — | — |
| Jun 20, 2025 | Poosa Q 🏅 Montgomery, AL | 35 / 42 (171.4288) | — | 11 (171.4288) | — | — |
| Jun 13, 2025 | Reelin N Smokin Backyard BBQ Competition (BACKYARD ONLY) Huntsville, AL | 35 / 35 (288.4340) | 35 (145.6456) | 35 (142.7884) | — | — |
| May 25, 2018 | 10th Annual Gillett Heritage Days Festival BBQ cook off Gillett, AR | — | — | — | — | — |