A tough matchup
3–0
behind in the head-to-head
BAMA BOYS BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings
BAMA BOYS BBQ has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
Countryside BBQ
Countryside BBQ is a competition barbecue team with 5 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2016 and 2024. Their best overall finish is 25th of 49 at the Freedom Feast BBQ Cook-Off (2016). They finished #373 in the 2024 Backyard Series Team of the Year standings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1490
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 4
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
Jun 24, 2016
latest Oct 4, 2024 · 8.3 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
1
1 podium
Overall top-10s
0
0% of 5 contests
Avg finish
top 65%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
20%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±4.71
spread of their Backyard overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 164.99 · weakest Pork (155.38)
Road miles
963
across 5 mapped stops · furthest 484 mi
Schedule strength
68%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1587)
Purse competed for
$130K
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 3 state-championship entries
Master avg
655.90 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
320.87 / 360
3 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
These overall scores sit on different scales (Master 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.
Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to Countryside BBQ, each with one reason worth a look.
Countryside BBQ 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 167 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#3,668 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1502
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#3,673 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1506
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 5 years before Countryside BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#3,652 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1490
Level with Countryside BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#3,681 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1490
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 5 years before Countryside BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#3,654 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1490
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 6 years before Countryside BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#3,648 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1490
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 6 years before Countryside BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careersBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 177.7372 | 154.8456 | 164.99 | top 46% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.1084 | 155.9200 | 161.24 | top 61% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.3828 | 155.3828 | 155.38 | top 73% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.2056 | 158.2056 | 158.21 | top 69% |
“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
Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poosa Q | 3 | 42 | 0 | top 69% | Oct 4, 2024 |
More numbers
Contests a season
1
across 5 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
AL
4 of 5 contests · 2 states in all
Contests visited
2
1 of them more than once
Opponents faced
281
finished ahead 118 times, behind 296
Longest layoff
5.2 yrs
Mar 3, 2017 → May 5, 2022
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20241 milestone
- Most recent contest Poosa Q
20167 milestones
- First tracked contest Freedom Feast BBQ Cook-Off
- First call Freedom Feast BBQ Cook-Off
- First category win (Chicken) Freedom Feast BBQ Cook-Off
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score655.8972 Freedom Feast BBQ Cook-Off
- Career-best overall score655.8972 Freedom Feast BBQ Cook-Off
- Career-best single call (Chicken)177.7372 Freedom Feast BBQ Cook-Off
- Peak power rating (1504) Freedom Feast BBQ Cook-Off
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +3.5 | Freedom Feast BBQ Cook-Off | Jun 24, 2016 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -7.5 | Poosa Q | Oct 4, 2024 |
| -3 | Poosa Q | May 5, 2022 |
| -3 | Poosa Q | Oct 5, 2023 |
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 | 0% | top 85% | 87.3% | 87.3% |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 64% | 90.1% | 90.1% |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 58% | 90% | 90% |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 100% | top 51% | 91.1% | 91.1% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 4, 2024 | Poosa Q 🏅 Montgomery, AL | 50 / 59 (314.2168) | 52 (154.8456) | 50 (159.3712) | — | — |
| Oct 5, 2023 | Poosa Q 🏅 Montgomery, AL | 47 / 73 (324.4800) | 26 (168.5600) | 55 (155.9200) | — | — |
| May 5, 2022 | Poosa Q 🏅 Montgomery, AL | 42 / 72 (323.9084) | 41 (158.8000) | 30 (165.1084) | — | — |
| Mar 3, 2017 | Bodagetta BBQ Auburn, AL | — | — | — | — | — |
| Jun 24, 2016 | Freedom Feast BBQ Cook-Off Willard, MO | 25 / 49 (655.8972) | 1 (177.7372) | 20 (164.5716) | 36 (155.3828) | 34 (158.2056) |