A tough matchup
4–0
behind in the head-to-head
Castleton Q ahead in 100% of their meetings
Castleton Q has come out ahead in 4 of their 4 shared contests.
Hells Corner BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1500
peak 1501 · rated over 4 contests ⓘ
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
2024-08-09
latest 2025-03-22
Best ToY finish
#248
Backyard 2024
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 56%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
323.62
last 4 Backyard vs avg 323.62 (+0.00)
Walk rate
25%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±3.12
std dev of Backyard overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 165.10 · weakest Pork Ribs (158.52)
Road miles
48
mi across 4 mapped stops
Schedule strength
89%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1624)
Purse competed for
$20K
listed at 4 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 4 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
323.62 / 360
4 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Storylines (3 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 strong matchup
4–0
ahead in the head-to-head
Ahead in 100% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of Second Helping BBQ -PA in 4 of their 4 shared contests.
They cook the hard rooms
1624
average field rating faced
A tougher draw than 89% of rated fields
The fields they enter average a 1624 power rating — a tougher draw than 89% of every rated contest in the data.
- 4 rated contests
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.
Hells Corner BBQ has 4 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 125 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.
#3198 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1500
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#3205 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
Level with Hells Corner BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3199 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2013, 11 years before Hells Corner BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3207 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1500
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 4 years before Hells Corner BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3206 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 2021, 4 years before Hells Corner BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3218 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, 4 years before Hells Corner 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 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.6800 | 161.6456 | 165.10 | top 48% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.2744 | 152.5144 | 158.52 | top 57% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 169.6684 | 152.5028 | 161.09 | top 52% |
| 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 62% |
| Large (40+) | 2 | 0 | top 50% |
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BBQ Gives Back (Day 2) (Masters and Backyard) | 2 | 21 | 0 | top 50% | 2025-03-22 |
| Americamps BBQ Throwdown (Day 2) | 2 | 15 | 0 | top 62% | 2024-08-10 |
The story so far (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0.6 yrs
2024-08-09 → 2025-03-22
Busiest season
2025
2 contests
Contests a season
2
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
VA
4 of 4 contests
Contests visited
2
2 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
4 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 165.10 · weakest Pork Ribs (158.52)
Walk rate
25%
a top-10 call in 1 of 4 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 4 contests
Backyard average
323.62
out of 360 · 4 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
88
82–148 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
48
4 mapped stops
Schedule strength
1624
average field rating faced — tougher than 89% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$20,000
listed at 4 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 4 state-championship entries
Power rating
1500
peak 1501 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2024
- First tracked contest Americamps BBQ Throwdown (Day 1)
- First call Americamps BBQ Throwdown (Day 1)
- Career-best single call (Chicken)169.6800 Americamps BBQ Throwdown (Day 1)
- Peak power rating (1501) Americamps BBQ Throwdown (Day 1)
- 2025
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score327.3944 BBQ Gives Back (Day 1) (Masters and Backyard)
- Career-best overall score327.3944 BBQ Gives Back (Day 1) (Masters and Backyard)
- Most recent contest BBQ Gives Back (Day 2) (Masters and Backyard)
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +2.3 | BBQ Gives Back (Day 1) (Masters and Backyard) | 2025-03-21 |
| +1.4 | Americamps BBQ Throwdown (Day 1) | 2024-08-09 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -3.4 | Americamps BBQ Throwdown (Day 2) | 2024-08-10 |
| -0.7 | BBQ Gives Back (Day 2) (Masters and Backyard) | 2025-03-22 |
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)
Team of the Year rank by season
Season by season
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 50% | 90.9% | 90.7% |
| 2024 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 62% | 89.5% | 89.1% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-03-22 | BBQ Gives Back (Day 2) (Masters and Backyard) 🏅 Urbanna, VA | 23 / 43 (325.6000) | 22 (163.9428) | 23 (161.6572) | — | — |
| 2025-03-21 | BBQ Gives Back (Day 1) (Masters and Backyard) 🏅 Urbanna, VA | 21 / 45 (327.3944) | 19 (165.1200) | 17 (162.2744) | — | — |
| 2024-08-10 | Americamps BBQ Throwdown (Day 2) 🏅 Ashland, VA | 19 / 28 (319.2912) | 16 (161.6456) | 19 (157.6456) | 21 (152.5028) | — |
| 2024-08-09 | Americamps BBQ Throwdown (Day 1) 🏅 Ashland, VA | 15 / 27 (322.1944) | 11 (169.6800) | 19 (152.5144) | 8 (169.6684) | — |
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 | #286 (133 pts) | #272 (148 pts) | #278 (153 pts) | — | — |
| 2024 ↗ | Backyard | #248 (172 pts) | #223 (207 pts) | #271 (152 pts) | — | — |