High-water mark
335.3600
career-best overall
93.2% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 335.3600 at Kickin' It Route 66 Barbecue Challenge (Day 2) — 93.2% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2025-03-29
Really Damn Delicious BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1516
peak 1516 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2025-03-28
latest 2025-03-29
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 29%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Top-10 streak
2
and counting
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 169.11 · weakest Chicken (164.25)
Road miles
0
mi across 3 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$9K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
333.07 / 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.
Really Damn Delicious BBQ 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 88 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.
#2600 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1525
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ 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, 7 years before Really Damn Delicious BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2608 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1523
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2013, 12 years before Really Damn Delicious BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#2585 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1522
No shared contest yet.
Level with Really Damn Delicious BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2606 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1521
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2015, 10 years before Really Damn Delicious BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ 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, 11 years before Really Damn Delicious 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 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 165.6800 | 162.8116 | 164.25 | top 33% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 169.6800 | 167.9772 | 169.11 | top 31% |
| 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.
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kickin' It Route 66 Barbecue Challenge (Day 2) | 2 | 6 | 0 | top 29% | 2025-03-29 |
The story so far (15 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0 yrs
2025-03-28 → 2025-03-29
Busiest season
2025
3 contests
Cooks most in
MO
3 of 3 contests
Contests visited
1
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
3 entries · 0 wins · 3 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 169.11 · weakest Chicken (164.25)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 3 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
67%
2 of 3 contests
Best top-10 run
2
straight contests — and still running
Backyard average
333.07
out of 360 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
40
43–26 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
0
3 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$8,900
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Power rating
1516
peak 1516 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2025
- First tracked contest Kickin' It Route 66 Barbecue Challenge (Day 1)
- First call Kickin' It Route 66 Barbecue Challenge (Day 1)
- First overall top-10 Kickin' It Route 66 Barbecue Challenge (Day 1)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score330.7888 Kickin' It Route 66 Barbecue Challenge (Day 1)
- Career-best overall score335.3600 Kickin' It Route 66 Barbecue Challenge (Day 2)
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)169.6800 Kickin' It Route 66 Barbecue Challenge (ONE MEAT RIBS)
- Most recent contest Kickin' It Route 66 Barbecue Challenge (Day 2)
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 100% | top 29% | 93.2% | 92.5% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-03-29 | Kickin' It Route 66 Barbecue Challenge (Day 2) 🏅 St. Robert, MO | 6 / 25 (335.3600) | 7 (165.6800) | 5 (169.6800) | — | — |
| 2025-03-29 | Kickin' It Route 66 Barbecue Challenge (ONE MEAT RIBS) St. Robert, MO | — | — | 8 (169.6800) | — | — |
| 2025-03-28 | Kickin' It Route 66 Barbecue Challenge (Day 1) 🏅 St. Robert, MO | 9 / 27 (330.7888) | 10 (162.8116) | 5 (167.9772) | — | — |