High-water mark
341.0972
career-best overall
94.7% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 341.0972 at WV Coalfields Cookoff WV KCBS State Championship — 94.7% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2025-06-06
Salt and Sizzle BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1509
peak 1509 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
1
in the data
First seen
2025-06-06
latest 2025-06-06
Best ToY finish
#224
Backyard 2025
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 1 contests
Avg finish
top 36%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 174.27 · weakest Pork Ribs (166.82)
Purse competed for
$10K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
341.10 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 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.
Salt and Sizzle BBQ has 1 rated contest — 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 100 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.
#2857 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1509
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 7 years before Salt and Sizzle BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2874 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1519
No shared contest yet.
6 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Salt and Sizzle BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head#2868 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1517
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2016, 9 years before Salt and Sizzle BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#2852 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1509
No shared contest yet.
Level with Salt and Sizzle BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2854 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1509
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 8 years before Salt and Sizzle BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2847 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1509
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2016, 9 years before Salt and Sizzle BBQ'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 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 174.2744 | 174.2744 | 174.27 | top 27% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 166.8228 | 166.8228 | 166.82 | top 45% |
| Pork | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 168.5600 | 168.5600 | 168.56 | top 36% |
| 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.
The story so far (13 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0 yrs
2025-06-06 → 2025-06-06
Busiest season
2025
1 contest
Cooks most in
WV
1 of 1 contests
Contests visited
1
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
1 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 174.27 · weakest Pork Ribs (166.82)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 1 of 1 contests
Overall top-10 rate
100%
1 of 1 contests
Backyard average
341.10
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
18
11–6 across every shared overall standing
Purse competed for
$10,000
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Power rating
1509
peak 1509 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2025
- First tracked contest WV Coalfields Cookoff WV KCBS State Championship
- First call WV Coalfields Cookoff WV KCBS State Championship
- First overall top-10 WV Coalfields Cookoff WV KCBS State Championship
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score341.0972 WV Coalfields Cookoff WV KCBS State Championship
- Career-best overall score341.0972 WV Coalfields Cookoff WV KCBS State Championship
- Career-best single call (Chicken)174.2744 WV Coalfields Cookoff WV KCBS State Championship
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 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 36% | 94.7% | 94.7% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-06-06 | WV Coalfields Cookoff WV KCBS State Championship 🏅 Welch, WV | 4 / 11 (341.0972) | 3 (174.2744) | 5 (166.8228) | 4 (168.5600) | — |
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 | #224 (183 pts) | #212 (208 pts) | #269 (158 pts) | — | — |