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.
Chicken is where the weekend gets away from them — it averages 9.15 points below their pork ribs, and turns into a call 0% of the time against 43%.
Off the trail for 5.7 years, then back at Bixby Rotary BBQ'N Blues Festival (2021-05-07).
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.
156 rated teams sit within a point of this rating, so a place on this list means the numbers match — no more than that.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 7, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2023, 3 years before Just Blowin Smoke's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Just Blowin Smoke on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2015.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2018, 8 years before Just Blowin Smoke's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2017, 9 years before Just Blowin Smoke'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 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.4172 | 142.8456 | 155.64 | top 75% |
| Pork Ribs | 7 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 173.1200 | 158.2516 | 164.79 | top 63% |
| Pork | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 171.4172 | 157.6456 | 163.78 | top 60% |
| Brisket | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 166.2628 | 141.0856 | 157.70 | top 56% |
“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 | 2 | 0 | top 71% |
| IA | 1 | 0 | top 29% |
| NE | 1 | 0 | top 71% |
| OK | 1 | 0 | top 83% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 3 | 0 | top 57% |
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 71% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 83% |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +9.3 | Camp High Hopes Rib Fest (BACKYARD ONLY) | 2024-06-21 |
| +4.2 | Butler Chamber of Commerce BBQ & Huckster's Day | 2015-09-11 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -13.2 | Cameron Elks BBQ Cook-Off (BACKYARD 2) | 2026-07-10 |
| -7.4 | Bixby Rotary BBQ'N Blues Festival | 2021-05-07 |
| -3.3 | SJV Winter Rub | 2023-01-27 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 100% | 86.2% | 86.2% |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 29% | 93.5% | 93.5% |
| 2023 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 71% | 90.6% | 90.6% |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 83% | 85% | 85% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 43% | 91.1% | 91.1% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-10 | Cameron Elks BBQ Cook-Off (BACKYARD 2) Cameron, MO | 16 / 16 (310.2284) | 16 (142.8456) | 9 (167.3828) | — | — |
| 2026-07-10 | Cameron Elks BBQ Cook-Off (ONE MEAT RIBS) Cameron, MO | — | — | 21 (162.2400) | — | — |
| 2024-06-21 | Camp High Hopes Rib Fest (BACKYARD ONLY) Sioux City, IA | 5 / 17 (336.5716) | 12 (163.4516) | 3 (173.1200) | — | — |
| 2023-07-07 | Cameron Elks BBQ Cook Off (ONE MEAT RIBS) Cameron, MO | — | — | 21 (166.8228) | — | — |
| 2023-01-27 | SJV Winter Rub 🏅 Omaha, NE | 22 / 31 (652.4916) | 14 (167.4172) | 22 (161.6916) | 27 (157.6456) | 16 (165.7372) |
| 2021-05-07 | Bixby Rotary BBQ'N Blues Festival 🏅 Bixby, OK | 44 / 53 (611.8860) | 44 (150.2744) | 42 (158.2516) | 34 (162.2744) | 50 (141.0856) |
| 2015-09-11 | Butler Chamber of Commerce BBQ & Huckster's Day Butler, MO | 6 / 14 (655.9084) | 11 (154.2056) | 7 (164.0228) | 4 (171.4172) | 3 (166.2628) |