This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
92.4% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 332.4916 at Back Porch Jam at the Hillsborough County Fairgrounds — 92.4% of a perfect 360.
Kings BBQ Team ahead in 100% of their meetings
Kings BBQ Team has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
Ahead in 100% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of Cold Beer BBQ in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
Finished 4 of 15 at their very first tracked contest, Back Porch Jam at the Hillsborough County Fairgrounds (2024-03-16).
A Family Tradition BBQ has landed one call behind them 2 times.
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.
K-Dub's Barbecue 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 115 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.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with K-Dub's Barbecue on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 7 contests, alongside a 14% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2020, 5 years before K-Dub's Barbecue's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2015, 9 years before K-Dub's Barbecue's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2018, 7 years before K-Dub's Barbecue's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 168.5716 | 165.1088 | 166.45 | top 21% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 167.3828 | 151.3372 | 158.60 | top 45% |
| Pork | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 165.0972 | 156.5028 | 161.85 | top 25% |
| Brisket | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 170.8228 | 153.6228 | 162.82 | top 23% |
“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.
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 2 | 0 | top 37% |
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 23% |
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Back Porch Jam at the Hillsborough County Fairgrounds | 2 | 4 | 0 | top 37% | 2025-03-14 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +9.1 | Plant City Pig Jam | 2024-11-22 |
| +6 | Back Porch Jam at the Hillsborough County Fairgrounds | 2024-03-16 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -1.7 | Back Porch Jam at the Hillsborough County Fairgrounds | 2025-03-14 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 100% | top 47% | 88.1% | 88.1% |
| 2024 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 100% | top 25% | 92.4% | 91.4% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-03-14 | Back Porch Jam at the Hillsborough County Fairgrounds 🏅 Dover, FL | 7 / 15 (317.0172) | 4 (165.6800) | 8 (151.3372) | 1 (163.9428) | 3 (164.0000) |
| 2024-11-22 | Plant City Pig Jam 🏅 Plant City, FL | 6 / 26 (325.6460) | 4 (168.5716) | 14 (157.0744) | 11 (156.5028) | 9 (153.6228) |
| 2024-03-16 | Back Porch Jam at the Hillsborough County Fairgrounds 🏅 Dover, FL | 4 / 15 (332.4916) | 3 (165.1088) | 4 (167.3828) | 4 (165.0972) | 2 (170.8228) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 ↗ | Backyard | #252 (157 pts) | #223 (192 pts) | #345 (97 pts) | — | — |
| 2024 ↗ | Backyard | #239 (181 pts) | #225 (206 pts) | #250 (181 pts) | — | — |