High-water mark
671.9088
career-best overall
93.3% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 671.9088 at Saluting with Smoke (COMPETITOR'S SERIES) — 93.3% of a perfect 720.
- Competitor Series
- Nov 5, 2021
Red, White & Bacon
Red, White & Bacon is a competition barbecue team with 9 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2021 and 2025. Their best overall finish is 4th of 18 at the Saluting with Smoke (COMPETITOR'S SERIES) (2021). They finished #297 in the 2025 Backyard Series Team of the Year standings. Also listed in KCBS results as “RED WHITE & BACON”.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1506
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 43 invitational or side-series contests not counted
Contests
9
in the data
First seen
Sep 10, 2021
latest Jun 20, 2025 · 3.8 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
2 podiums
Overall top-10s
3
33% of 9 contests
Best top-10 run
2
straight overall top-10s
Avg finish
top 51%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
56%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±8.11
spread of their Backyard overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 164.11 · weakest Brisket (158.24)
Road miles
113
across 8 mapped stops
Schedule strength
22%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1530)
Purse competed for
$13K
listed at 6 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 1 state-championship entry
Master avg
630.10 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
331.02 / 360
3 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
These overall scores sit on different scales (Master out of 720, Backyard out of 360), so they're kept separate — averaging them together would be misleading.
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)
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to Red, White & Bacon, each with one reason worth a look.
Red, White & Bacon 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 99 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#3,007 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1513
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 7 years before Red, White & Bacon's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#2,997 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1506
Fewer contests behind them than Red, White & Bacon has cooked, 5 to 9, which makes theirs the less settled rating of the two.
⚔ Compare careers#2,998 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1511
They were already cooking in 2013, 8 years before Red, White & Bacon's first contest.
⚔ Compare careers#2,995 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1506
Level with Red, White & Bacon on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#3,008 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1507
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 6 years before Red, White & Bacon's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#3,009 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1507
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 6 years before Red, White & Bacon's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careersFamiliar foes (most-met opponents in overall standings — one meeting per contest)
| Opponent | Meetings | Ahead | Behind | Win rate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RUBY CREEK BBQ | 5 | 3 | 2 | 60% | ⚔ compare |
By meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 7 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 173.1316 | 147.3712 | 162.41 | top 54% |
| Pork Ribs | 9 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 176 | 153.7028 | 164.11 | top 55% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.9428 | 163.9428 | 163.94 | top 65% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.2400 | 158.2400 | 158.24 | top 82% |
“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) | 3 | 0 | top 56% |
| Medium (20–39) | 4 | 0 | top 47% |
Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saluting with Smoke (COMPETITOR'S SERIES) | 2 | 4 | 0 | top 41% | Sep 15, 2023 |
More numbers
Busiest season
2022
3 contests
Contests a season
1.8
across 5 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
IL
9 of 9 contests
Contests visited
6
1 of them more than once
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
9 entries · 0 wins · 4 calls
Opponents faced
104
finished ahead 83 times, behind 71
Longest layoff
1.8 yrs
Sep 15, 2023 → Jun 20, 2025
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20253 milestones
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)176 Rhythm & BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Peak power rating (1506) Rhythm & BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Most recent contest Rhythm & BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
20214 milestones
- First call Saluting with Smoke (COMPETITOR'S SERIES)
- First overall top-10 Saluting with Smoke (COMPETITOR'S SERIES)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score671.9088 Saluting with Smoke (COMPETITOR'S SERIES)
- Career-best overall score671.9088 Saluting with Smoke (COMPETITOR'S SERIES)
—1 milestone
- First tracked contest Saluting with Smoke-Yorkville (COMPETITOR'S SERIES)
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +7.2 | Rhythm & BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) | Jun 20, 2025 |
| +5.9 | Westmont Red White & BBQ Backyard BBQ Cook-Off 2022 (BACKYARD ONLY) | May 28, 2022 |
| +2.4 | Morris Rhythm & BBQ Festival (Backyard) | Jun 17, 2022 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -9.9 | Honor-Q | Sep 10, 2021 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 68% | 89.3% | 89.3% |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 36% | 95.1% | 95.1% |
| 2023 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 50% | top 59% | 92.9% | 92.9% |
| 2022 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 67% | top 42% | 90.9% | 90.4% |
| 2021 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 50% | top 55% | 93.3% | 90.4% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 2025 | Rhythm & BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Morris, IL | 13 / 36 (342.2628) | 23 (166.2628) | 5 (176) | — | — |
| Sep 15, 2023 | Saluting with Smoke (COMPETITOR'S SERIES) unrated Yorkville, IL | 10 / 17 (668.5376) | 5 (173.1316) | 17 (154.8572) | — | — |
| Sep 15, 2023 | Saluting with Smoke Single Meat - Rib Burn (ONE MEAT RIBS) Yorkville, IL | — | — | 17 (165.6800) | — | — |
| Nov 4, 2022 | Saluting with Smoke Single Meat Rib Burn (ONE MEAT RIBS) Yorkville, IL | — | — | 18 (167.3944) | — | — |
| Jun 17, 2022 | Morris Rhythm & BBQ Festival (Backyard) Morris, IL | 11 / 23 (327.3828) | 14 (162.8456) | 6 (164.5372) | — | — |
| May 28, 2022 | Westmont Red White & BBQ Backyard BBQ Cook-Off 2022 (BACKYARD ONLY) Westmont, IL | 10 / 28 (323.4172) | 12 (161.0972) | 9 (162.3200) | — | — |
| Nov 5, 2021 | Saluting with Smoke (COMPETITOR'S SERIES) unrated Yorkville, IL | 4 / 18 (671.9088) | 3 (168.5600) | 3 (171.9888) | — | — |
| Sep 10, 2021 | Honor-Q 🏅 Yorkville, IL | 15 / 17 (630.1028) | 16 (147.3712) | 14 (160.5488) | 11 (163.9428) | 14 (158.2400) |
| — | Saluting with Smoke-Yorkville (COMPETITOR'S SERIES) unrated Yorkville, IL | 15 / 22 (643.2912) | 16 (157.6340) | 16 (153.7028) | — | — |
An unrated contest — an invitational, or a Competitor or Kosher Series board — is in the record but doesn’t move the power rating.