Riding a hot streak
4
straight overall top-10s
Currently on a 4-contest overall top-10 run.
- career best 4
SUMMERS BACKYARD BBQ & STEW
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1540
peak 1540 · rated over 4 contests ⓘ
Best runs
4
straight top-10s
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
2019-10-11
latest 2023-10-06
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
1
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
4
of 5 contests
Avg finish
top 18%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
293.56
last 4 Backyard vs avg 293.56 (+0.00)
Walk rate
80%
contests with a top-10 call
Top-10 streak
4
and counting
Consistency
±10.31
std dev of Backyard overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 148.15 · weakest Chicken (145.41)
Road miles
0
mi across 5 mapped stops
Schedule strength
57%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1573)
Purse competed for
$50K
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 4 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
293.56 / 360
4 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
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.
Happy hunting ground
Top 18%
average finish here
The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival is their spot: an average finish in the top 18% across 4 visits.
- 4 visits
- best finish 3rd
- average top 18%
A tough matchup
4–0
behind in the head-to-head
Backwoods BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings
Backwoods BBQ has come out ahead in 4 of their 4 shared contests.
A strong matchup
4–0
ahead in the head-to-head
Ahead in 100% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of QMEISTERS in 4 of their 4 shared contests.
The comeback
2 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 2 years, then back at The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival (2021-10-08).
- last seen 2019-10-11
- back 2021-10-08
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.
SUMMERS BACKYARD BBQ & STEW has 4 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 73 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.
#1951 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1540
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#1948 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 80%
- Peak
- 1542
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2013, 6 years before SUMMERS BACKYARD BBQ & STEW's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#1943 of the rated field
- Contests
- 8
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1540
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 6 years before SUMMERS BACKYARD BBQ & STEW's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#1952 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 29%
- Peak
- 1540
No shared contest yet.
Level with SUMMERS BACKYARD BBQ & STEW on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#1957 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 57%
- Peak
- 1550
No shared contest yet.
Their rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 7 contests, alongside a 57% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-head#1955 of the rated field
- Contests
- 9
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 44%
- Peak
- 1540
No shared contest yet.
This is the highest they've ever been rated, 8 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 162.8800 | 133.7032 | 145.41 | top 15% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 161.7256 | 131.4284 | 148.15 | top 17% |
| 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.
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival | 4 | 3 | 0 | top 18% | 2023-10-06 |
The story so far (18 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
4 yrs
2019-10-11 → 2023-10-06
Busiest season
2023
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 5 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
GA
5 of 5 contests
Contests visited
1
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
4 entries · 1 win · 4 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 148.15 · weakest Chicken (145.41)
Walk rate
80%
a top-10 call in 4 of 5 contests
Overall top-10 rate
80%
4 of 5 contests
Best top-10 run
4
straight contests — and still running
Backyard average
293.56
out of 360 · 4 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
90
100–32 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
0
5 mapped stops
Schedule strength
1573
average field rating faced — tougher than 57% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$50,000
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 4 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
2 yrs
2019-10-11 → 2021-10-08
Power rating
1540
peak 1540 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2018
- First tracked contest The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival
- 2019
- First call The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival
- First overall top-10 The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival
- 2021
- First category win (Chicken) The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival
- First overall podium The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival
- Career-best single call (Chicken)162.8800 The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival
- 2022
- Career-best overall score307.9656 The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival
- 2023
- Peak power rating (1540) The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival
- Most recent contest The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +13.8 | The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival | 2021-10-08 |
| +9.5 | The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival | 2019-10-11 |
| +8.4 | The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival | 2022-10-07 |
| +8.2 | The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival | 2023-10-06 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 17% | 81.4% | 81.4% |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 20% | 85.5% | 85.5% |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 100% | top 12% | 81.8% | 81.8% |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 22% | 77.5% | 77.5% |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-10-06 | The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival 🏅 Lyons, GA | 5 / 29 (293.1312) | 5 (138.8112) | 5 (154.3200) | — | — |
| 2022-10-07 | The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival 🏅 Lyons, GA | 6 / 30 (307.9656) | 5 (146.2400) | 5 (161.7256) | — | — |
| 2021-10-08 | The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival 🏅 Lyons, GA | 3 / 26 (294.3084) | 1 (162.8800) | 4 (131.4284) | — | — |
| 2019-10-11 | The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival 🏅 Lyons, GA | 6 / 27 (278.8232) | 6 (133.7032) | 5 (145.1200) | — | — |
| 2018-10-12 | The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival Lyons, GA | — | — | — | — | — |