High-water mark
342.8000
career-best overall
95.2% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 342.8000 at Twin Valley Fire and Smoke (Day 2) — 95.2% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2025-05-17
Brewski's BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1517
peak 1517 · rated over 3 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2025-05-17
latest 2026-07-25
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
1
2 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 39%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
338.23
last 3 Backyard vs avg 338.23 (+0.00)
Walk rate
67%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±4.95
std dev of Backyard overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 170.44 · weakest Pork Ribs (167.79)
Road miles
52
mi across 3 mapped stops · furthest 35 mi
Schedule strength
73%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1593)
Purse competed for
$9K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 3 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
338.23 / 360
3 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Storylines (4 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.
A tough matchup
3–0
behind in the head-to-head
All About the Wood ahead in 100% of their meetings
All About the Wood has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
A strong matchup
3–0
ahead in the head-to-head
Ahead in 100% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of 4 BOXERS Q in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
Announced themselves early
5th
at their very first contest
Finished 5 of 21 at their very first tracked contest, Twin Valley Fire and Smoke (Day 2) (2025-05-17).
- 2025-05-17
- 21-team field
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.
Brewski's BBQ has 3 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 92 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.
#2582 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1524
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 6 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#2600 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1525
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2019, 6 years before Brewski's BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#2602 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 8 years before Brewski's BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2585 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1522
No shared contest yet.
Level with Brewski's BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2589 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1524
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2014, 12 years before Brewski's BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2592 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 29%
- Peak
- 1527
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 7 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 177.7028 | 166.2284 | 170.44 | top 34% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 175.4172 | 162.8344 | 167.79 | top 37% |
| 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) | 2 | 0 | top 30% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 58% |
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smoke on the Rail BBQ Festival (Day 2) | 2 | 14 | 0 | top 47% | 2026-07-25 |
The story so far (17 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1.2 yrs
2025-05-17 → 2026-07-25
Busiest season
2026
2 contests
Contests a season
1.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
PA
3 of 3 contests
Contests visited
2
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
3 entries · 0 wins · 2 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 170.44 · weakest Pork Ribs (167.79)
Walk rate
67%
a top-10 call in 2 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
33%
1 of 3 contests
Backyard average
338.23
out of 360 · 3 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
96
94–82 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
52
3 mapped stops · furthest 35 mi
Schedule strength
1593
average field rating faced — tougher than 73% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$8,700
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 3 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
1.2 yrs
2025-05-17 → 2026-07-24
Power rating
1517
peak 1517 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2025
- First tracked contest Twin Valley Fire and Smoke (Day 2)
- First call Twin Valley Fire and Smoke (Day 2)
- First category win (Pork Ribs) Twin Valley Fire and Smoke (Day 2)
- First overall top-10 Twin Valley Fire and Smoke (Day 2)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score342.8000 Twin Valley Fire and Smoke (Day 2)
- Career-best overall score342.8000 Twin Valley Fire and Smoke (Day 2)
- 2026
- Career-best single call (Chicken)177.7028 Smoke on the Rail BBQ Festival (Day 2)
- Peak power rating (1517) Smoke on the Rail BBQ Festival (Day 2)
- Most recent contest Smoke on the Rail BBQ Festival (Day 2)
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +11.1 | Twin Valley Fire and Smoke (Day 2) | 2025-05-17 |
| +6.9 | Smoke on the Rail BBQ Festival (Day 2) | 2026-07-25 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -1.2 | Smoke on the Rail BBQ Festival (Day 1) | 2026-07-24 |
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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 47% | 94.6% | 93.3% |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 100% | top 24% | 95.2% | 95.2% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-25 | Smoke on the Rail BBQ Festival (Day 2) 🏅 New Freedom, PA | 14 / 39 (340.5372) | 2 (177.7028) | 22 (162.8344) | — | — |
| 2026-07-24 | Smoke on the Rail BBQ Festival (Day 1) 🏅 New Freedom, PA | 25 / 43 (331.3600) | 23 (166.2284) | 21 (165.1316) | — | — |
| 2025-05-17 | Twin Valley Fire and Smoke (Day 2) 🏅 Morgantown, PA | 5 / 21 (342.8000) | 9 (167.3828) | 1 (175.4172) | — | — |