The one to beat
2×
one call ahead of them
K-Dub's Barbecue has finished one call ahead of A Family Tradition BBQ 2 times — their closest competition in the data.
A Family Tradition BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1499
peak 1503 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2024-03-16
latest 2025-03-14
Best ToY finish
#260
Backyard 2024
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 43%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Top-10 streak
2
and counting
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 158.57 · weakest Brisket (146.20)
Road miles
0
mi across 2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$10K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
311.95 / 360
2 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Storylines (2 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.
Announced themselves early
5th
at their very first contest
Finished 5 of 15 at their very first tracked contest, Back Porch Jam at the Hillsborough County Fairgrounds (2024-03-16).
- 2024-03-16
- 15-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.
A Family Tradition 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 126 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.
#3246 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1508
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3236 of the rated field
- Contests
- 9
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 11%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2022, 3 years before A Family Tradition BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3261 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1499
No shared contest yet.
Their rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 6 contests, alongside a 17% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-head#3232 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1499
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2019, 5 years before A Family Tradition BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3245 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
Level with A Family Tradition BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3234 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1499
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2016, 9 years before A Family Tradition 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 | 164.0344 | 151.9544 | 157.99 | top 40% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 154.2284 | 153.6800 | 153.95 | top 43% |
| Pork | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 163.4400 | 153.7028 | 158.57 | top 33% |
| Brisket | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 148.4916 | 143.9084 | 146.20 | top 43% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Back Porch Jam at the Hillsborough County Fairgrounds | 2 | 5 | 0 | top 43% | 2025-03-14 |
The story so far (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1 yrs
2024-03-16 → 2025-03-14
Busiest season
2025
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
FL
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
1
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 2 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 158.57 · weakest Brisket (146.20)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 2 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
100%
2 of 2 contests
Best top-10 run
2
straight contests — and still running
Backyard average
311.95
out of 360 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
34
18–22 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
0
2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$10,100
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Power rating
1499
peak 1503 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2024
- First tracked contest Back Porch Jam at the Hillsborough County Fairgrounds
- First call Back Porch Jam at the Hillsborough County Fairgrounds
- First overall top-10 Back Porch Jam at the Hillsborough County Fairgrounds
- Career-best overall score318.2628 Back Porch Jam at the Hillsborough County Fairgrounds
- Career-best single call (Chicken)164.0344 Back Porch Jam at the Hillsborough County Fairgrounds
- 2025
- Most recent contest Back Porch Jam at the Hillsborough County Fairgrounds
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 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 53% | 84.9% | 84.9% |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 33% | 88.4% | 88.4% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-03-14 | Back Porch Jam at the Hillsborough County Fairgrounds 🏅 Dover, FL | 8 / 15 (305.6344) | 8 (151.9544) | 7 (153.6800) | 5 (153.7028) | 8 (148.4916) |
| 2024-03-16 | Back Porch Jam at the Hillsborough County Fairgrounds 🏅 Dover, FL | 5 / 15 (318.2628) | 4 (164.0344) | 6 (154.2284) | 5 (163.4400) | 5 (143.9084) |
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 | #292 (128 pts) | #293 (128 pts) | #296 (138 pts) | — | — |
| 2024 ↗ | Backyard | #260 (156 pts) | #240 (181 pts) | #279 (146 pts) | — | — |