High-water mark
331.3712
career-best overall
92.0% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 331.3712 at Up in Smoke on the Square (BACKYARD ONLY) — 92.0% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2024-08-23
Slow your Smoke BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1504
peak 1504 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
1
in the data
First seen
2024-08-23
latest 2024-08-23
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 1 contests
Avg finish
top 43%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 174.29 · weakest Chicken (157.09)
Purse competed for
$5K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
Backyard avg
331.37 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Storylines (1 found in this team's record)
Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
Teams like this (closest power rating)
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.
Slow your Smoke 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 117 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.
#3071 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1521
No shared contest yet.
5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Slow your Smoke BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head#3055 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1522
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 6 years before Slow your Smoke BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3064 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2014, 10 years before Slow your Smoke BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3042 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1511
No shared contest yet.
Level with Slow your Smoke BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3046 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2014, 10 years before Slow your Smoke BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3072 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1503
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2013, 11 years before Slow your Smoke BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.0856 | 157.0856 | 157.09 | top 75% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 174.2856 | 174.2856 | 174.29 | top 18% |
| Pork | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
| Brisket | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
“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.
The story so far (12 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0 yrs
2024-08-23 → 2024-08-23
Busiest season
2024
1 contest
Cooks most in
IL
1 of 1 contests
Contests visited
1
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
1 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 174.29 · weakest Chicken (157.09)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 1 of 1 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 1 contests
Backyard average
331.37
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
27
16–11 across every shared overall standing
Purse competed for
$5,000
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
Power rating
1504
peak 1504 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2024
- First tracked contest Up in Smoke on the Square (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First call Up in Smoke on the Square (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score331.3712 Up in Smoke on the Square (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best overall score331.3712 Up in Smoke on the Square (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)174.2856 Up in Smoke on the Square (BACKYARD ONLY)
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 | 100% | top 43% | 92% | 92% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-08-23 | Up in Smoke on the Square (BACKYARD ONLY) Lincoln, IL | 12 / 28 (331.3712) | 21 (157.0856) | 5 (174.2856) | — | — |