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
SUMMERS BACKYARD BBQ & STEW is a competition barbecue team with 5 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2019 and 2023. Their best overall finish is 3rd of 26 at The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival (2021). Also listed in KCBS results as “Summer's Backyard BBQ & Stew” and “Summers Backyard BBQ &Stew”.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1540
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 4
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
Oct 11, 2019
latest Oct 6, 2023 · 4 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
1
1 podium
Overall top-10s
4
80% of 5 contests
Best top-10 run
4
straight overall top-10s, still running
Avg finish
top 18%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
80%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±10.31
spread of their Backyard overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 148.15 · weakest Chicken (145.41)
Road miles
0
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 🏅
won from 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.
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to SUMMERS BACKYARD BBQ & STEW, each with one reason worth a look.
SUMMERS BACKYARD BBQ & STEW has 4 rated contests, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 69 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#1,968 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1540
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#1,956 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 80%
- Peak
- 1542
They were already cooking in 2013, 6 years before SUMMERS BACKYARD BBQ & STEW's first contest.
⚔ Compare careers#1,967 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 29%
- Peak
- 1540
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.
⚔ Compare careers#1,973 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 57%
- Peak
- 1550
Their rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 7 contests, alongside a 57% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Compare careers#1,971 of the rated field
- Contests
- 9
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 44%
- Peak
- 1540
This is the highest they've ever been rated, 8 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Compare careers#1,957 of the rated field
- Contests
- 8
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 38%
- Peak
- 1545
Level with SUMMERS BACKYARD BBQ & STEW on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careersBy 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% |
“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.
Repeat visits (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% | Oct 6, 2023 |
More numbers
Contests a season
1
across 5 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
GA
5 of 5 contests
Contests visited
1
1 of them more than once
Opponents faced
90
finished ahead 100 times, behind 32
Longest layoff
2 yrs
Oct 11, 2019 → Oct 8, 2021
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20232 milestones
- Peak power rating (1540) The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival
- Most recent contest The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival
20221 milestone
- Career-best overall score307.9656 The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival
20213 milestones
- 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
20192 milestones
- First call The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival
- First overall top-10 The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival
20181 milestone
- First tracked 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 | Oct 8, 2021 |
| +9.6 | The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival | Oct 11, 2019 |
| +8.3 | The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival | Oct 7, 2022 |
| +8.2 | The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival | Oct 6, 2023 |
Scores over time (% of a perfect score — tap a meat to add it)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 6, 2023 | The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival 🏅 Lyons, GA | 5 / 29 (293.1312) | 5 (138.8112) | 5 (154.3200) | — | — |
| Oct 7, 2022 | The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival 🏅 Lyons, GA | 6 / 30 (307.9656) | 5 (146.2400) | 5 (161.7256) | — | — |
| Oct 8, 2021 | The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival 🏅 Lyons, GA | 3 / 26 (294.3084) | 1 (162.8800) | 4 (131.4284) | — | — |
| Oct 11, 2019 | The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival 🏅 Lyons, GA | 6 / 27 (278.8232) | 6 (133.7032) | 5 (145.1200) | — | — |
| Oct 12, 2018 | The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival Lyons, GA | — | — | — | — | — |