High-water mark
342.2744
career-best overall
95.1% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 342.2744 at Rhythm & BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) — 95.1% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2026-06-19
Fam Bam-A-Q
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1500
peak 1500 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2025-06-20
latest 2026-06-19
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 58%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 171.15 · weakest Chicken (163.39)
Road miles
1
mi across 2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$5K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
Backyard avg
334.54 / 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.
Fam Bam-A-Q 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 105 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.
#3167 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 5 years before Fam Bam-A-Q's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3189 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1508
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3194 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1514
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2013, 12 years before Fam Bam-A-Q's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3185 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
Level with Fam Bam-A-Q on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3178 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2015, 11 years before Fam Bam-A-Q's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3196 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1512
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2015, 11 years before Fam Bam-A-Q'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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.3828 | 159.3944 | 163.39 | top 72% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 174.8916 | 167.4172 | 171.15 | top 39% |
| 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 75% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 41% |
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rhythm & BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) | 2 | 17 | 0 | top 58% | 2026-06-19 |
The story so far (14 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1 yrs
2025-06-20 → 2026-06-19
Busiest season
2026
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
IL
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
1
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 171.15 · weakest Chicken (163.39)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 1 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 2 contests
Backyard average
334.54
out of 360 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
52
33–42 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
1
2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$5,100
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
Power rating
1500
peak 1500 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2025
- First tracked contest Rhythm & BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score326.8116 Rhythm & BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- 2026
- First call Rhythm & BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best overall score342.2744 Rhythm & BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)174.8916 Rhythm & BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Most recent contest Rhythm & BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 41% | 95.1% | 95.1% |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 75% | 90.8% | 90.8% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-19 | Rhythm & BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Morris, IL | 17 / 41 (342.2744) | 23 (167.3828) | 8 (174.8916) | — | — |
| 2025-06-20 | Rhythm & BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Morris, IL | 27 / 36 (326.8116) | 32 (159.3944) | 21 (167.4172) | — | — |