- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Dark Mountain BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThis team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
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.
Dark Mountain 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 140 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 Dark Mountain BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2018, 6 years before Dark Mountain BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 9 contests, alongside a 33% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2020, 4 years before Dark Mountain BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Dark Mountain 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 2018, 6 years before Dark Mountain 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.2628 | 154.2628 | 154.26 | top 93% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 147.3712 | 147.3712 | 147.37 | top 95% |
| 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.
| 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 95% | 83.8% | 83.8% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-06-14 | Morris Rhythm & BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Morris, IL | 38 / 40 (301.6340) | 37 (154.2628) | 38 (147.3712) | — | — |