A tough matchup
4–0
behind in the head-to-head
Uncle Dubby's Backyard BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings
Uncle Dubby's Backyard BBQ has come out ahead in 4 of their 4 shared contests.
Midlife BBQ
Midlife BBQ is a competition barbecue team with 4 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2023 and 2024. Their best overall finish is 7th of 28 at the Fire in the Foothills BBQ Festival (2024). They finished #219 in the 2024 Backyard Series Team of the Year standings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1494
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 4
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
Jun 9, 2023
latest Aug 30, 2024 · 1.2 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
50% of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 68%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±5.40
spread of their Backyard overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 156.10 · weakest Brisket (150.22)
Road miles
522
across 4 mapped stops · furthest 209 mi
Schedule strength
87%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1620)
Purse competed for
$28K
listed at 4 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 4 state-championship entries
Master avg
592.89 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
315.56 / 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)
By meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 162.8228 | 146.8340 | 154.83 | top 69% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 166.2744 | 150.2056 | 156.10 | top 63% |
| Pork | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.2516 | 145.6344 | 150.99 | top 78% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 150.2172 | 150.2172 | 150.22 | top 94% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 100% |
| Medium (20–39) | 3 | 0 | top 57% |
Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fire in the Foothills BBQ Festival | 2 | 7 | 0 | top 34% | Aug 30, 2024 |
More numbers
Contests a season
2
across 2 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
NC
2 of 4 contests · 3 states in all
Contests visited
3
1 of them more than once
Opponents faced
103
finished ahead 44 times, behind 105
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20243 milestones
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)166.2744 Fire in the Foothills BBQ Festival
- Peak power rating (1494) Fire in the Foothills BBQ Festival
- Most recent contest Fire in the Foothills BBQ Festival
20234 milestones
- First tracked contest WV Coalfields Cookoff
- Career-best overall score592.8912 WV Coalfields Cookoff
- First call Fire in the Foothills BBQ Festival
- First overall top-10 Fire in the Foothills BBQ Festival
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +10.8 | Fire in the Foothills BBQ Festival | Aug 30, 2024 |
| +4.4 | Fire in the Foothills BBQ Festival | Sep 1, 2023 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -10.7 | WV Coalfields Cookoff | Jun 9, 2023 |
| -10.3 | Revolutionary BBQ Brawl (Day 1) | Apr 19, 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 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 50% | top 65% | 89.5% | 87.7% |
| 2023 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 50% | top 71% | 87.6% | 85% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 30, 2024 | Fire in the Foothills BBQ Festival 🏅 King, NC | 7 / 28 (322.2860) | 12 (156.0116) | 4 (166.2744) | 12 (149.0856) | — |
| Apr 19, 2024 | Revolutionary BBQ Brawl (Day 1) 🏅 Williamsburg, VA | 26 / 25 (309.0740) | 27 (153.6684) | 24 (155.4056) | 23 (158.2516) | — |
| Sep 1, 2023 | Fire in the Foothills BBQ Festival 🏅 King, NC | 9 / 21 (315.3256) | 7 (162.8228) | 10 (152.5028) | — | — |
| Jun 9, 2023 | WV Coalfields Cookoff 🏅 Welch, WV | 16 / 16 (592.8912) | 15 (146.8340) | 15 (150.2056) | 16 (145.6344) | 15 (150.2172) |