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.
They've won two or more meats on the same day 1 time — the best of them 2 category wins at Cowchip BBQ Cookoff (BACKYARD ONLY) Day 1 (2024-08-23).
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.
CHARLIE MICHAELS BBQ has 1 rated contest — 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 141 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.
5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where CHARLIE MICHAELS BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2024.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2021, 3 years before CHARLIE MICHAELS BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with CHARLIE MICHAELS BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2017, 7 years before CHARLIE MICHAELS BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2017, 7 years before CHARLIE MICHAELS BBQ'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 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 165.6684 | 165.6684 | 165.67 | top 50% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 162.8112 | 162.8112 | 162.81 | top 100% |
| Pork | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
| Brisket | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 170.8228 | 170.8228 | 170.82 | top 50% |
“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.
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 100% | top 100% | 91.2% | 91.2% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-08-23 | Cowchip BBQ Cookoff (BACKYARD ONLY) Day 1 Beaver, OK | 2 / 2 (328.4796) | 1 (165.6684) | 2 (162.8112) | — | 1 (170.8228) |