High-water mark
490.1944
career-best overall
136.2% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 490.1944 at WV Coalfields Cookoff — 136.2% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2022-06-10
Que N Cue BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1492
peak 1502 · rated over 3 contests ⓘ
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
2022-06-10
latest 2026-08-21
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 67%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
377.64
last 3 Backyard vs avg 377.64 (+0.00)
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±79.60
std dev of Backyard overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 171.60 · weakest Pork (154.22)
Road miles
411
mi across 4 mapped stops · furthest 241 mi
Schedule strength
82%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1607)
Purse competed for
$17K
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 3 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
377.64 / 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
Gold-N-Blue Barbecue ahead in 100% of their meetings
Gold-N-Blue Barbecue has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
The comeback
2.8 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 2.8 years, then back at BBQ Gives Back (ONE MEAT CHICKEN) (2025-03-21).
- last seen 2022-06-10
- back 2025-03-21
They cook the hard rooms
1607
average field rating faced
A tougher draw than 82% of rated fields
The fields they enter average a 1607 power rating — a tougher draw than 82% of every rated contest in the data.
- 3 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.
Que N Cue 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 139 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.
#3573 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1491
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#3556 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1512
No shared contest yet.
Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-head#3574 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
Level with Que N Cue BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3559 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, 5 years before Que N Cue BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3551 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2020, 6 years before Que N Cue BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3561 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1492
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 9 years before Que N Cue 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 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 173.1428 | 170.8228 | 171.60 | top 26% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 165.1544 | 149.0972 | 154.64 | top 66% |
| Pork | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 154.2172 | 154.2172 | 154.22 | top 53% |
| 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 state / province
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| VA | 2 | 0 | top 74% |
| WV | 1 | 0 | top 53% |
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 53% |
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 100% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 49% |
The story so far (17 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
4.2 yrs
2022-06-10 → 2026-08-21
Busiest season
2025
2 contests
Contests a season
1.3
across 3 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
VA
3 of 4 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
3
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
3 entries · 0 wins · 2 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 171.60 · weakest Pork (154.22)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 2 of 4 contests
Overall top-10 rate
25%
1 of 4 contests
Backyard average
377.64
out of 360 · 3 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
120
40–106 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
411
4 mapped stops · furthest 241 mi
Schedule strength
1607
average field rating faced — tougher than 82% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$17,450
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 3 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
2.8 yrs
2022-06-10 → 2025-03-21
Power rating
1492
peak 1502 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2022
- First tracked contest WV Coalfields Cookoff
- First call WV Coalfields Cookoff
- First overall top-10 WV Coalfields Cookoff
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score490.1944 WV Coalfields Cookoff
- Career-best overall score490.1944 WV Coalfields Cookoff
- 2025
- Career-best single call (Chicken)173.1428 BBQ Gives Back (Day 1) (Masters and Backyard)
- Peak power rating (1502) BBQ Gives Back (Day 1) (Masters and Backyard)
- 2026
- Most recent contest Stoney Creek BBQ Cookoff
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +1.3 | BBQ Gives Back (Day 1) (Masters and Backyard) | 2025-03-21 |
| +0.4 | WV Coalfields Cookoff | 2022-06-10 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -10.2 | Stoney Creek BBQ Cookoff | 2026-08-21 |
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 | 0% | top 100% | 88.9% | 88.9% |
| 2025 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 49% | 89.7% | 89.7% |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 53% | 136.2% | 136.2% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-21 | Stoney Creek BBQ Cookoff 🏅 Edinburg, VA | 26 / 26 (319.9316) | 14 (170.8344) | 26 (149.0972) | — | — |
| 2025-03-21 | BBQ Gives Back (Day 1) (Masters and Backyard) 🏅 Urbanna, VA | 22 / 45 (322.8000) | 5 (173.1428) | 26 (149.6572) | — | — |
| 2025-03-21 | BBQ Gives Back (ONE MEAT CHICKEN) Urbanna, VA | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2022-06-10 | WV Coalfields Cookoff 🏅 Welch, WV | 8 / 15 (490.1944) | 2 (170.8228) | 6 (165.1544) | 8 (154.2172) | — |