Giant slayer
40
teams beaten in one weekend
Took the Grand Championship over a 40-team field at Barbeque on the Bow Festival.
- 2023-09-02
Mini Butts
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1510
peak 1516 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2023-09-02
latest 2024-03-29
Grand champs
1
0 reserve
Category wins
0
2 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 42%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
33%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 169.98 · weakest Chicken (167.10)
Road miles
1,401
mi across 3 mapped stops · furthest 1200 mi
Purse competed for
$12K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
337.08 / 360
2 Backyard contests · 1 GC
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Storylines (3 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.
High-water mark
346.2284
career-best overall
96.2% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 346.2284 at Barbeque on the Bow Festival — 96.2% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2023-09-02
Announced themselves early
1st
at their very first contest
Finished 1 of 40 at their very first tracked contest, Barbeque on the Bow Festival (2023-09-02).
- 2023-09-02
- 40-team field
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.
Mini Butts 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 97 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.
#2813 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 29%
- Peak
- 1535
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 7 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#2829 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1510
No shared contest yet.
Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-head#2816 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1510
No shared contest yet.
Level with Mini Butts on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2821 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1520
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 6 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#2814 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 67%
- Peak
- 1527
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 5 years before Mini Butts's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2830 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1510
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 6 years before Mini Butts'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 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 170.8112 | 163.3944 | 167.10 | top 47% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 175.4172 | 164.5372 | 169.98 | top 37% |
| 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 (17 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0.6 yrs
2023-09-02 → 2024-03-29
Busiest season
2023
2 contests · 1 GC
Contests a season
1.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
AB
2 of 3 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 169.98 · weakest Chicken (167.10)
Walk rate
33%
a top-10 call in 1 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
33%
1 of 3 contests
Wins it all
33%
1 Grand Championship · 0 reserve
First title
2023-09-02
Barbeque on the Bow Festival
Backyard average
337.08
out of 360 · 2 contests · 1 GC
Opponents faced
140
73–66 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
1,401
3 mapped stops · furthest 1,200 mi
Purse competed for
$12,000
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Power rating
1510
peak 1516 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2023
- First tracked contest Barbeque on the Bow Festival
- First call Barbeque on the Bow Festival
- First overall top-10 Barbeque on the Bow Festival
- First overall podium Barbeque on the Bow Festival
- First Grand Championship Barbeque on the Bow Festival
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score346.2284 Barbeque on the Bow Festival
- Biggest field won (40 teams) Barbeque on the Bow Festival
- Career-best overall score346.2284 Barbeque on the Bow Festival
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)175.4172 Barbeque on the Bow Festival
- 2024
- Most recent contest Iowa State BBQ Championship
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 81% | 91.1% | 91.1% |
| 2023 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 50% | top 3% | 96.2% | 96.2% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-29 | Iowa State BBQ Championship 🏅 Altoona, IA | 34 / 42 (327.9316) | 36 (163.3944) | 29 (164.5372) | — | — |
| 2023-09-16 | Embers and Ice Pitmaster Championship (formerly Porkapalooza BBQ Festival) Sherwood Park, Edmonton, AB | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2023-09-02 | Barbeque on the Bow Festival Calgary, AB | 1 / 40 (346.2284) | 3 (170.8112) | 2 (175.4172) | — | — |