Master and Backyard overall scores sit on different scales (Master is out of 720, Backyard out of 360), so they're kept separate — averaging them together would be misleading.
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.
92.8% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 667.8624 at American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest — 92.8% of a perfect 720.
2026 was the year it came together: 3 contests, 0 Grand Championships and 0 category wins, at an average finish in the top 38%.
Ahead in 100% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of SadieQ in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
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.
HevyQue 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 113 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.
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team HevyQue has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headCareers of much the same size, 5 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2018, 8 years before HevyQue's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2013, 12 years before HevyQue's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with HevyQue on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2016, 10 years before HevyQue'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 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 175.4056 | 160.0000 | 167.40 | top 59% |
| Pork Ribs | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 173.1200 | 164.5372 | 169.11 | top 53% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.9656 | 159.9772 | 161.97 | top 78% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.7028 | 169.7028 | 169.70 | top 38% |
“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.
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| MO | 3 | 0 | top 52% |
| KS | 1 | 0 | top 65% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 2 | 0 | top 54% |
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 48% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 65% |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +6.8 | West Bottoms Backyard Barbeque (BACKYARD ONLY) | 2026-05-15 |
| +2.7 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue Backyard Contest | 2025-03-21 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -1.5 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest | 2025-11-05 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 38% | 96% | 96% |
| 2025 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0% | top 62% | 93.8% | 93.3% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-15 | West Bottoms Backyard Barbeque (BACKYARD ONLY) Kansas City, MO | 6 / 16 (345.6684) | 3 (175.4056) | 10 (170.2628) | — | — |
| 2026-05-15 | West Bottoms Backyard Barbeque (ONE MEAT RIBS Contest #2) Kansas City, MO | — | — | 4 (173.1200) | — | — |
| 2026-05-15 | West Bottoms Backyard Barbeque (ONE MEAT RIBS) Kansas City, MO | — | — | 10 (164.5372) | — | — |
| 2025-11-05 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 260 / 401 (667.8624) | 287 (166.2284) | 235 (167.9656) | 310 (163.9656) | 151 (169.7028) |
| 2025-10-03 | Carnivore Carnival (COMPETITOR SERIES) unrated Platte City, MO | 10 / 14 (662.2628) | 12 (160.0000) | — | 11 (159.9772) | — |
| 2025-03-21 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue Backyard Contest Kansas City, MO | 16 / 33 (337.6340) | 20 (167.9540) | 16 (169.6800) | — | — |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 ↗ | Backyard | #204 (156 pts) | #176 (216 pts) | #256 (116 pts) | — | — |
| 2026 ↗ | Master | #927 (60 pts) | #1010 (60 pts) | #488 (365 pts) | #970 (60 pts) | #950 (60 pts) |