Perfect scores on the board
2
perfect 180s
2 perfect 180s in the data — every judge at the table handing back a nine, all in pork.
- Pork ×2
Killer B Backyard BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1504
peak 1504 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
7
in the data
First seen
2024-04-19
latest 2026-06-12
Best ToY finish
#682
Master 2026
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
2
3 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 7 contests
Avg finish
top 44%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
2 🔥
Walk rate
43%
contests with a top-10 call
Best single call
180.0000 🔥
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 175.13 · weakest Brisket (166.82)
Road miles
632
mi across 7 mapped stops · furthest 210 mi
Purse competed for
$50K
listed at 7 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
685.65 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs
Storylines (5 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.
Signature meat
50%
pork entries won
2 wins from 4 entries
When pork is on the table, watch out — they've won it in 50% of their entries (2 of 4).
- best 180.0000
- average 175.13
- 2 calls
High-water mark
686.7540
career-best overall
95.4% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 686.7540 at Southaven Springfest — 95.4% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2026-04-24
A tough matchup
4–0
behind in the head-to-head
Armstrong Smoke & Co. ahead in 100% of their meetings
Armstrong Smoke & Co. has come out ahead in 4 of their 4 shared contests.
A strong matchup
4–1
ahead in the head-to-head
Ahead in 80% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of RTQue in 4 of their 5 shared contests.
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.
Killer B Backyard BBQ has 2 rated contests — 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 116 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.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 7, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ 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, 8 years before Killer B Backyard 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 Killer B Backyard BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3072 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1503
No shared contest yet.
Level with Killer B Backyard BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3057 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 8 years before Killer B Backyard BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3067 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1512
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 9 years before Killer B Backyard BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headFamiliar foes (most-met opponents in overall standings — one meeting per contest)
| Opponent | Meetings | Ahead | Behind | Win rate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RTQue | 5 | 4 | 1 | 80% | ⚔ compare |
| Bad company cookers | 5 | 3 | 2 | 60% | ⚔ compare |
| THE BLAZERS | 5 | 2 | 3 | 40% | ⚔ compare |
| Hogs B Hatin' | 5 | 1 | 4 | 20% | ⚔ compare |
By meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 175.4516 | 161.6572 | 167.40 | top 56% |
| Pork Ribs | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 173.1200 | 166.2400 | 169.36 | top 50% |
| Pork | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 180.0000 🔥 | 166.2400 | 175.13 | top 27% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 172.5484 | 161.0972 | 166.82 | top 63% |
“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 state / province
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| TN | 6 | 0 | top 42% |
| MS | 1 | 0 | top 58% |
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 6 | 0 | top 44% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 46% |
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robertson County Fair Assoc. Barbeque Throwdown (COMPETITOR SERIES) | 2 | 11 | 0 | top 40% | 2026-06-12 |
| Dr. George Smith BBQ Brawl (COMPETITOR SERIES) | 2 | 4 | 0 | top 31% | 2026-05-01 |
The story so far (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
2.1 yrs
2024-04-19 → 2026-06-12
Busiest season
2026
4 contests
Contests a season
2.3
across 3 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
TN
6 of 7 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
5
2 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
7 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 175.13 · weakest Brisket (166.82)
Walk rate
43%
a top-10 call in 3 of 7 contests
Overall top-10 rate
14%
1 of 7 contests
Master average
685.65
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Perfect 180s
2
every judge at the table handing back a nine
Opponents faced
257
171–188 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
632
7 mapped stops · furthest 210 mi
Purse competed for
$49,550
listed at 7 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Power rating
1504
peak 1504 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2024
- First tracked contest Dr. George Smith BBQ Brawl (COMPETITORS SERIES)
- 2026
- First call Smoke on the Shores BBQ Championship
- First category win (Pork) Smoke on the Shores BBQ Championship
- First perfect 180 (Pork) Smoke on the Shores BBQ Championship
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score684.5376 Smoke on the Shores BBQ Championship
- Career-best overall score686.7540 Southaven Springfest
- First overall top-10 Dr. George Smith BBQ Brawl (COMPETITOR SERIES)
- Most recent contest Robertson County Fair Assoc. Barbeque Throwdown (COMPETITOR SERIES)
Category scores over time
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 75% | top 39% | 95.4% | 95.2% |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 45% | — | — |
| 2024 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 54% | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-12 | Robertson County Fair Assoc. Barbeque Throwdown (COMPETITOR SERIES) unrated Springfield, TN | 11 / 32 (514.8000) | 24 (162.8344) | 14 (171.9656) | 1 (180.0000) | — |
| 2026-05-01 | Dr. George Smith BBQ Brawl (COMPETITOR SERIES) unrated Murfreesboro, TN | 4 / 23 (520.5144) | 12 (167.3944) | 3 (173.1200) | — | — |
| 2026-04-24 | Southaven Springfest 🏅 Southaven, MS | 19 / 33 (686.7540) | 22 (170.2628) | 21 (169.6800) | 11 (174.2628) | 12 (172.5484) |
| 2026-03-20 | Smoke on the Shores BBQ Championship 🏅 Lebanon, TN | 57 / 125 (684.5376) | 26 (175.4516) | 77 (167.9888) | 1 (180.0000) | 111 (161.0972) |
| 2025-04-25 | Dr. George Smith BBQ Brawl (COMPETITOR SERIES) unrated Murfreesboro, TN | 14 / 31 (510.1712) | 19 (166.2284) | 18 (166.2400) | — | — |
| 2024-06-07 | Robertson County Fair Assoc. Barbeque Throwdown (COMPETITOR SERIES) unrated Springfield, TN | 15 / 33 (503.9088) | 12 (167.9888) | 14 (169.6800) | 23 (166.2400) | — |
| 2024-04-19 | Dr. George Smith BBQ Brawl (COMPETITORS SERIES) unrated Murfreesboro, TN | 23 / 37 (503.3372) | 30 (161.6572) | 24 (166.8228) | — | — |
Career map (orange GC · green top-10 · grey the rest — tap a pin)
Team of the Year standings (rank per category by season — year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 ↗ | Master | #682 (148 pts) | #788 (133 pts) | #825 (138 pts) | #396 (413 pts) | #654 (183 pts) |