High-water mark
92.4% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 332.5372 at Foley BBQ & Blues Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY) — 92.4% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2025-03-07
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: 332.5372 at Foley BBQ & Blues Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY) — 92.4% of a perfect 360.
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.
KEY'S Southern Spice (United Bank) 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 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.
5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where KEY'S Southern Spice (United Bank)'s is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2018, 7 years before KEY'S Southern Spice (United Bank)'s most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2014, 11 years before KEY'S Southern Spice (United Bank)'s first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with KEY'S Southern Spice (United Bank) on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2014, 11 years before KEY'S Southern Spice (United Bank)'s most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2018, 7 years before KEY'S Southern Spice (United Bank)'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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.8228 | 158.8228 | 158.82 | top 77% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 173.7144 | 173.7144 | 173.71 | top 10% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.2856 | 158.2856 | 158.29 | top 80% |
| 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.
| 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 47% | 92.4% | 92.4% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-03-07 | Foley BBQ & Blues Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY) Foley, AL | 14 / 30 (332.5372) | 23 (158.8228) | 3 (173.7144) | 24 (158.2856) | — |