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.
93.1% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 670.2976 at The Great Lenexa BBQ Battle - Kansas State Championship — 93.1% of a perfect 720.
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.
Fern Kee 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 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.
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Fern Kee has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head10 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Fern Kee's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2017, 7 years before Fern Kee's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2019, 5 years before Fern Kee's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Fern Kee on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2013, 11 years before Fern Kee'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 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 169.1544 | 166.8228 | 167.99 | top 39% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.6800 | 156.5716 | 161.13 | top 67% |
| Pork | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 175.4400 | 175.4400 | 175.44 | top 5% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.1316 | 169.1316 | 169.13 | top 22% |
“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 | 1 | 0 | top 68% |
| KS | 1 | 0 | top 24% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 68% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 24% |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 46% | 93.1% | 92.7% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-10-04 | Big Creek BBQ Bash (BACKYARD ONLY) Pleasant Hill, MO | 13 / 19 (332.5028) | 10 (166.8228) | 12 (165.6800) | — | — |
| 2024-06-21 | The Great Lenexa BBQ Battle - Kansas State Championship 🏅 Lenexa, KS | 41 / 172 (670.2976) | 45 (169.1544) | 123 (156.5716) | 9 (175.4400) | 38 (169.1316) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 ↗ | Backyard | #319 (104 pts) | #308 (119 pts) | #326 (109 pts) | — | — |
| 2024 ↗ | Master | #1182 (60 pts) | #1242 (60 pts) | #1317 (60 pts) | #871 (145 pts) | #1204 (60 pts) |