Master and Backyard overall scores sit on different scales (Master is 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.
Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
2025 was the year it came together: 3 contests, 0 Grand Championships and 0 category wins, at an average finish in the top 60%.
Big Racks BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings
Big Racks BBQ has come out ahead in 6 of their 6 shared contests.
Ahead in 75% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of Good Grefe! in 3 of their 4 shared contests.
Off the trail for 1.7 years, then back at Bring'n Home the Bacon (ONE MEAT RIBS) (2025-06-13).
Something about June: average finish in the top 54% across 3 contests, versus top 76% the rest of the year.
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.
144 rated teams sit within a point of this rating, so a place on this list means the numbers match — no more than that.
They've been 1511 at their best, 32 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-headCareers of much the same size, 7 contests to 9, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2016, 9 years before Leaky Tiki's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2017, 6 years before Leaky Tiki's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Leaky Tiki on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThis is the highest they've ever been rated, 8 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Head-to-head| Opponent | Meetings | Ahead | Behind | Win rate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Big Racks BBQ | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| DAD BOD BARBEQUE | 5 | 2 | 3 | 40% | ⚔ compare |
| Big Ten Bones | 5 | 1 | 4 | 20% | ⚔ compare |
| DAWGS BBQ | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| Marty Party BBQ | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| Sensuous BBQ | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 167.4056 | 158.8000 | 164.14 | top 69% |
| Pork Ribs | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 166.8228 | 139.9772 | 157.11 | top 79% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 147.8972 | 147.8972 | 147.90 | top 100% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 147.8972 | 147.8972 | 147.90 | top 89% |
“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.
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| WI | 6 | 0 | top 82% |
| MN | 1 | 0 | top 41% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 2 | 0 | top 88% |
| Medium (20–39) | 5 | 0 | top 71% |
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bring'n Home the Bacon II (BACKYARD) | 2 | 15 | 0 | top 98% | 2023-10-15 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +4.9 | Bring'n Home the Bacon Day 2 (MASTER & BACKYARD) | 2025-06-14 |
| +2.2 | Smokin in Steele | 2023-06-02 |
| +0.8 | Bring'n Home the Bacon Day 1 (MASTER & BACKYARD) | 2025-06-13 |
| +0.5 | Bring'n Home the Bacon II (BACKYARD) | 2023-10-15 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -14.4 | BBCubed - Brighton Barbeque Bash | 2023-07-14 |
| -10.8 | Bring'n Home the Bacon II (MASTER & BACKYARD) | 2023-10-13 |
| -4.8 | Cranberry Country Rally Days Backyard BBQ Contest (BACKYARD ONLY) | 2023-09-15 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 60% | 92.8% | 92.5% |
| 2023 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 33% | top 82% | 92.4% | 88.5% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-06-14 | Bring'n Home the Bacon Day 2 (MASTER & BACKYARD) 🏅 West Salem, WI | 18 / 36 (331.9200) | 21 (165.6800) | 21 (166.2400) | — | — |
| 2025-06-13 | Bring'n Home the Bacon Day 1 (MASTER & BACKYARD) 🏅 West Salem, WI | 25 / 36 (334.2284) | 24 (167.4056) | 23 (166.8228) | — | — |
| 2025-06-13 | Bring'n Home the Bacon (ONE MEAT RIBS) West Salem, WI | — | — | 33 (154.2632) | — | — |
| 2023-10-15 | Bring'n Home the Bacon II (BACKYARD) West Salem, WI | 15 / 24 (332.5832) | 16 (166.2744) | 14 (166.3088) | — | — |
| 2023-10-13 | Bring'n Home the Bacon II (MASTER & BACKYARD) 🏅 West Salem, WI | 28 / 21 (312.4456) | 16 (166.2628) | 30 (146.1828) | — | — |
| 2023-09-15 | Cranberry Country Rally Days Backyard BBQ Contest (BACKYARD ONLY) Tomah, WI | 6 / 8 (322.2056) | 6 (161.6800) | 5 (160.5256) | — | — |
| 2023-07-14 | BBCubed - Brighton Barbeque Bash 🏅 Oshkosh, WI | 19 / 19 (594.5716) | 18 (158.8000) | 19 (139.9772) | 19 (147.8972) | 17 (147.8972) |
| 2023-07-14 | BBCubed - Brighton Barbeque Bash (ONE MEAT RIBS) Oshkosh, WI | — | — | 15 (147.3944) | — | — |
| 2023-06-02 | Smokin in Steele 🏅 Owatonna, MN | 12 / 29 (329.1772) | 14 (162.8800) | 8 (166.2972) | — | — |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 ↗ | Backyard | #262 (151 pts) | #279 (141 pts) | #228 (206 pts) | — | — |
| 2025 ↗ | Master | — | — | #1293 (60 pts) | — | — |
| 2023 ↗ | Backyard | — | #132 (440 pts) | #123 (545 pts) | — | — |
| 2023 ↗ | Master | #1197 (74 pts) | #1246 (79 pts) | #965 (164 pts) | #1236 (74 pts) | #1201 (84 pts) |