High-water mark
670.1484
career-best overall
186.2% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 670.1484 at Almost Heaven BBQ Bash (OPEN FORMAT) — 186.2% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2026-06-19
Marshall Mountain BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1523
peak 1532 · rated over 4 contests ⓘ
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
2025-09-26
latest 2026-08-21
Best ToY finish
#225
Backyard 2026
Grand champs
1
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
of 5 contests
Avg finish
top 42%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
413.06
last 4 Backyard vs avg 413.06 (-0.00)
Walk rate
40%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±148.45
std dev of Backyard overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Brisket
avg 167.38 · weakest Chicken (162.96)
Road miles
539
mi across 5 mapped stops · furthest 211 mi
Schedule strength
89%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1622)
Purse competed for
$20K
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
1 🏅
GCs in 4 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
413.06 / 360
4 Backyard contests · 1 GC
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 (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.
State champions
1
state championships won
They've taken 1 state championship from 4 entries at contests carrying the title.
- 4 state-championship entries
A tough matchup
3–0
behind in the head-to-head
The Swine Doctor's BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings
The Swine Doctor's BBQ has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
A strong matchup
3–1
ahead in the head-to-head
Ahead in 75% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of WOLF'S REVENGE BBQ in 3 of their 4 shared contests.
They cook the hard rooms
1622
average field rating faced
A tougher draw than 89% of rated fields
The fields they enter average a 1622 power rating — a tougher draw than 89% of every rated contest in the data.
- 4 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.
Marshall Mountain BBQ 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 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.
#2424 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1525
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2023, 3 years before Marshall Mountain BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2419 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1522
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#2405 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1523
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2013, 12 years before Marshall Mountain BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#2411 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 50%
- Peak
- 1523
No shared contest yet.
Their rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 6 contests, alongside a 50% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-head#2417 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1522
No shared contest yet.
Level with Marshall Mountain BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2414 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 57%
- Peak
- 1530
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 7 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 170.8228 | 158.2288 | 162.96 | top 58% |
| Pork Ribs | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 171.9772 | 156.5028 | 164.76 | top 60% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 167.9888 | 165.7028 | 166.85 | top 44% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.3828 | 167.3828 | 167.38 | top 79% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VA | 2 | 0 | top 69% |
| WV | 1 | 1 | top 3% |
| NC | 1 | 0 | top 28% |
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 3 | 1 | top 41% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 45% |
The story so far (18 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0.9 yrs
2025-09-26 → 2026-08-21
Busiest season
2026
4 contests · 1 GC
Contests a season
2.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
VA
3 of 5 contests · 3 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
4
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
5 entries · 0 wins · 2 calls
Strongest meat
Brisket
averages 167.38 · weakest Chicken (162.96)
Walk rate
40%
a top-10 call in 2 of 5 contests
Overall top-10 rate
40%
2 of 5 contests
Wins it all
20%
1 Grand Championship · 0 reserve
First title
2026-06-19
Almost Heaven BBQ Bash (OPEN FORMAT)
Backyard average
413.06
out of 360 · 4 contests · 1 GC
Opponents faced
131
87–92 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
539
5 mapped stops · furthest 211 mi
Schedule strength
1622
average field rating faced — tougher than 89% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$20,200
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
1
from 4 state-championship entries
Power rating
1523
peak 1532 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2025
- First tracked contest Fire in the Foothills
- First call Fire in the Foothills
- First overall top-10 Fire in the Foothills
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score330.2400 Fire in the Foothills
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)171.9772 Fire in the Foothills
- 2026
- First overall podium Almost Heaven BBQ Bash (OPEN FORMAT)
- First Grand Championship Almost Heaven BBQ Bash (OPEN FORMAT)
- First state championship Almost Heaven BBQ Bash (OPEN FORMAT)
- Career-best overall score670.1484 Almost Heaven BBQ Bash (OPEN FORMAT)
- Peak power rating (1532) Almost Heaven BBQ Bash (OPEN FORMAT)
- Most recent contest Stoney Creek BBQ Cookoff
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +20.5 | Almost Heaven BBQ Bash (OPEN FORMAT) | 2026-06-19 |
| +8.7 | Fire in the Foothills | 2025-09-26 |
| +2.3 | BBQ Gives Back (Day 1) | 2026-03-27 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -9 | Stoney Creek BBQ Cookoff | 2026-08-21 |
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)
Team of the Year rank by season
Season by season
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 25% | top 47% | 186.2% | 122.4% |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 28% | 91.7% | 91.7% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-21 | Stoney Creek BBQ Cookoff 🏅 Edinburg, VA | 24 / 26 (323.8972) | 23 (164.5256) | 24 (159.3716) | — | — |
| 2026-06-19 | Almost Heaven BBQ Bash (OPEN FORMAT) 🏅 Buckhannon, WV | 1 / 29 (670.1484) | 16 (170.8228) | 26 (166.2400) | 22 (165.7028) | 23 (167.3828) |
| 2026-03-27 | BBQ Gives Back (Day 1) 🏅 Urbanna, VA | 18 / 40 (327.9432) | 20 (158.2288) | 6 (169.7144) | — | — |
| 2026-03-27 | BBQ Gives Back (ONE MEAT RIBS) Urbanna, VA | — | — | 23 (156.5028) | — | — |
| 2025-09-26 | Fire in the Foothills 🏅 King, NC | 7 / 25 (330.2400) | 10 (158.2628) | 4 (171.9772) | 3 (167.9888) | — |
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 ↗ | Backyard | #225 (126 pts) | #205 (166 pts) | #207 (177 pts) | — | — |
| 2026 ↗ | Master | — | — | #1049 (61 pts) | — | — |
| 2025 ↗ | Backyard | #278 (141 pts) | #317 (111 pts) | #240 (186 pts) | — | — |