High-water mark
337.0628
career-best overall
93.6% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 337.0628 at Boomer Backyard BBQ Cookoff (BACKYARD ONLY) — 93.6% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2026-08-15
Low & Slow Bro's
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1500
peak 1502 · rated over 3 contests ⓘ
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
2026-05-08
latest 2026-08-15
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 59%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
324.15
last 3 Backyard vs avg 324.15 (+0.00)
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±15.93
std dev of Backyard overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 162.64 · weakest Pork Ribs (162.55)
Road miles
198
mi across 4 mapped stops · furthest 111 mi
Schedule strength
81%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1605)
Purse competed for
$25K
listed at 4 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
324.15 / 360
3 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here. Still inside their first twelve months: see what a first season usually looks like.
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.
A tough matchup
3–0
behind in the head-to-head
Berg's BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings
Berg's BBQ has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
They cook the hard rooms
1605
average field rating faced
A tougher draw than 81% of rated fields
The fields they enter average a 1605 power rating — a tougher draw than 81% of every rated contest in the data.
- 3 rated 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.
Low & Slow Bro's has 3 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 125 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.
#3215 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1501
0–1 in 1 shared contest (0% to Low & Slow Bro's)
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Low & Slow Bro's has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head#3198 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1500
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#3205 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2020, 6 years before Low & Slow Bro's's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3199 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
Level with Low & Slow Bro's on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3207 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1500
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 5 years before Low & Slow Bro's's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3206 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 5 years before Low & Slow Bro's'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 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.6800 | 152.5600 | 162.64 | top 61% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.0000 | 149.1544 | 162.55 | top 66% |
| 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.
By state / province
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| MN | 2 | 0 | top 55% |
| WI | 1 | 0 | top 68% |
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 67% |
| Large (40+) | 2 | 0 | top 55% |
The story so far (15 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0.3 yrs
2026-05-08 → 2026-08-15
Busiest season
2026
4 contests
Cooks most in
MN
3 of 4 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
3
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
4 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 162.64 · weakest Pork Ribs (162.55)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 4 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 4 contests
Backyard average
324.15
out of 360 · 3 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
155
76–127 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
198
4 mapped stops · furthest 111 mi
Schedule strength
1605
average field rating faced — tougher than 81% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$24,675
listed at 4 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Power rating
1500
peak 1502 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2026
- First tracked contest Minnesota in May (ONE MEAT RIBS)
- Peak power rating (1502) Minnesota in May
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score333.6800 Bring'n Home the Bacon Day 1 (MASTER & BACKYARD)
- Career-best overall score337.0628 Boomer Backyard BBQ Cookoff (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best single call (Chicken)169.6800 Boomer Backyard BBQ Cookoff (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Most recent contest Boomer Backyard BBQ Cookoff (BACKYARD ONLY)
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +1.6 | Minnesota in May | 2026-05-08 |
| +0.1 | Boomer Backyard BBQ Cookoff (BACKYARD ONLY) | 2026-08-15 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -1.9 | Bring'n Home the Bacon Day 1 (MASTER & BACKYARD) | 2026-06-12 |
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 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 59% | 93.6% | 90% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-15 | Boomer Backyard BBQ Cookoff (BACKYARD ONLY) Canton, MN | 12 / 18 (337.0628) | 12 (169.6800) | 15 (167.3828) | — | — |
| 2026-06-12 | Bring'n Home the Bacon Day 1 (MASTER & BACKYARD) 🏅 West Salem, WI | 27 / 40 (333.6800) | 29 (165.6800) | 26 (168.0000) | — | — |
| 2026-05-08 | Minnesota in May 🏅 St. Peter, MN | 33 / 77 (301.7144) | 34 (152.5600) | 33 (149.1544) | — | — |
| 2026-05-08 | Minnesota in May (ONE MEAT RIBS) St. Peter, MN | — | — | 34 (165.6684) | — | — |