High-water mark
335.4400
career-best overall
93.2% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 335.4400 at The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ — 93.2% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- May 3, 2019
Redstone Federal Credit Union
Redstone Federal Credit Union is a competition barbecue team with 7 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2019 and 2024. Their best overall finish is 4th of 54 at The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ (2019).
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1528
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 4
Contests
7
in the data
First seen
May 3, 2019
latest Oct 18, 2024 · 5.5 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podium
Overall top-10s
2
29% of 7 contests
Best top-10 run
2
straight overall top-10s
Avg finish
top 34%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
29%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±4.64
spread of their Backyard overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 165.11 · weakest Chicken (164.15)
Road miles
10
across 7 mapped stops
Schedule strength
21%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1529)
Purse competed for
$36K
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 3 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
329.26 / 360
4 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
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Redstone Federal Credit Union has 4 rated contests, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 65 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#2,286 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 2
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1528
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- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 100%
- Peak
- 1528
They turned up 5 years after Redstone Federal Credit Union did, first appearing in 2024.
⚔ Compare careers#2,279 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 71%
- Peak
- 1528
Level with Redstone Federal Credit Union on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#2,270 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1529
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⚔ Compare careers#2,273 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 43%
- Peak
- 1528
Their last contest in the data was back in 2013, 11 years before Redstone Federal Credit Union's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#2,287 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 29%
- Peak
- 1529
Careers of much the same size, 7 contests to 7, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careersBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 172.0344 | 158.8344 | 164.15 | top 43% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 173.1084 | 161.6684 | 165.11 | top 31% |
“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 field size and state
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 60% |
| Large (40+) | 3 | 0 | top 25% |
Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ | 2 | 9 | 0 | top 39% | Sep 8, 2022 |
More numbers
Contests a season
1
across 7 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
AL
7 of 7 contests
Contests visited
3
1 of them more than once
Opponents faced
242
finished ahead 274 times, behind 86
Longest layoff
2.3 yrs
May 3, 2019 → Aug 13, 2021
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20242 milestones
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)173.1084 WhistleStop BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Most recent contest WhistleStop BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
20221 milestone
- Peak power rating (1528) Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ
20194 milestones
- First call The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ
- First overall top-10 The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score335.4400 The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ
- Career-best overall score335.4400 The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ
20161 milestone
- First tracked contest The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +15.2 | The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ | May 3, 2019 |
| +11.4 | Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ | Aug 13, 2021 |
| +1.7 | Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ | Sep 8, 2022 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -0.2 | WhistleStop BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) | Oct 18, 2024 |
Scores over time (% of a perfect score — tap a meat to add it)
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 50% | 92.2% | 92.2% |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 60% | 90% | 90% |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0% | top 18% | 90.5% | 90.5% |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 7% | 93.2% | 93.2% |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 18, 2024 | WhistleStop BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Huntsville, AL | 25 / 50 (331.9428) | 38 (158.8344) | 6 (173.1084) | — | — |
| Sep 8, 2022 | Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ 🏅 Huntsville, AL | 21 / 35 (324.0116) | 25 (161.7372) | 19 (162.2744) | — | — |
| Aug 13, 2021 | Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ 🏅 Huntsville, AL | 9 / 49 (325.6456) | 11 (163.9772) | 13 (161.6684) | — | — |
| May 3, 2019 | The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ 🏅 Huntsville, AL | 4 / 54 (335.4400) | 2 (172.0344) | 17 (163.4056) | — | — |
| May 4, 2018 | The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ Huntsville, AL | — | — | — | — | — |
| May 5, 2017 | The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ Huntsville, AL | — | — | — | — | — |
| May 6, 2016 | The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ Huntsville, AL | — | — | — | — | — |