High-water mark
334.2056
career-best overall
92.8% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 334.2056 at Foley BBQ & Blues Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY) — 92.8% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2025-03-07
Live Wire BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1505
peak 1505 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
1
in the data
First seen
2025-03-07
latest 2025-03-07
Best ToY finish
#311
Backyard 2025
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 1 contests
Avg finish
top 43%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 173.70 · weakest Chicken (160.50)
Purse competed for
$3K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
Backyard avg
334.21 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 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.
Live Wire BBQ has 1 rated contest — 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 110 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.
#3015 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1508
No shared contest yet.
5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Live Wire BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head#3010 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 2022, 3 years before Live Wire BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3001 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2013, 12 years before Live Wire BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3022 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
Level with Live Wire BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3007 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1508
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2013, 12 years before Live Wire BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3019 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1510
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2013, 12 years before Live Wire 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.5028 | 160.5028 | 160.50 | top 70% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 173.7028 | 173.7028 | 173.70 | top 13% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.6684 | 165.6684 | 165.67 | top 57% |
| 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.
The story so far (12 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0 yrs
2025-03-07 → 2025-03-07
Busiest season
2025
1 contest
Cooks most in
AL
1 of 1 contests
Contests visited
1
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
1 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 173.70 · weakest Chicken (160.50)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 1 of 1 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 1 contests
Backyard average
334.21
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
29
17–12 across every shared overall standing
Purse competed for
$3,450
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
Power rating
1505
peak 1505 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2025
- First tracked contest Foley BBQ & Blues Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First call Foley BBQ & Blues Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score334.2056 Foley BBQ & Blues Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best overall score334.2056 Foley BBQ & Blues Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)173.7028 Foley BBQ & Blues Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY)
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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 43% | 92.8% | 92.8% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-03-07 | Foley BBQ & Blues Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY) Foley, AL | 13 / 30 (334.2056) | 21 (160.5028) | 4 (173.7028) | 17 (165.6684) | — |
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 | #311 (115 pts) | #350 (75 pts) | #230 (205 pts) | — | — |