High-water mark
670.1484
career-best overall
93.1% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 670.1484 at Almost Heaven BBQ Bash (OPEN FORMAT) — 93.1% of a perfect 720.
- Backyard
- Jun 19, 2026
Marshall Mountain BBQ
Marshall Mountain BBQ is a competition barbecue team with 5 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2025 and 2026. They have won 1 Grand Championship, at the Almost Heaven BBQ Bash (OPEN FORMAT) (2026). They finished #248 in the 2026 Backyard Series Team of the Year standings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1522
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 4
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
Sep 26, 2025
latest Aug 21, 2026
Grand champs
1
0 reserve · wins it all 20% of the time
Category wins
0
1 podium
Overall top-10s
2
40% of 5 contests
Avg finish
top 42%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
40%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±2.62
spread of their Backyard overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Brisket
avg 167.38 · weakest Chicken (162.96)
Road miles
539
across 5 mapped stops · furthest 211 mi
Schedule strength
88%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1622)
Purse competed for
$20K
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
1 🏅
won from 4 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
327.36 / 360
3 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
Backyard (4-meat) avg
670.15 / 720
1 Backyard (4-meat) contest · 1 GC
These overall scores sit on different scales (Backyard out of 360, Backyard (4-meat) out of 720), so they're kept separate — averaging them together would be misleading.
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to Marshall Mountain BBQ, each with one reason worth a look.
Marshall Mountain BBQ 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 99 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#2,453 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 80%
- Peak
- 1522
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#2,440 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1522
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 8 years before Marshall Mountain BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#2,433 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 50%
- Peak
- 1523
Their rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 6 contests, alongside a 50% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Compare careers#2,427 of the rated field
- Contests
- 9
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 11%
- Peak
- 1523
They were already cooking in 2019, 6 years before Marshall Mountain BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Compare careers#2,441 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1522
Level with Marshall Mountain BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#2,438 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 57%
- Peak
- 1530
Careers of much the same size, 7 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careersBy 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 field size and state
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 3 | 1 | top 41% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 45% |
More numbers
Busiest season
2026
4 contests · 1 GC
Contests a season
2.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
VA
3 of 5 contests · 3 states in all
Contests visited
4
a different one every time
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
5 entries · 0 wins · 2 calls
First title
Jun 19, 2026
Almost Heaven BBQ Bash (OPEN FORMAT)
Opponents faced
131
finished ahead 87 times, behind 92
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20266 milestones
- 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 (1531) Almost Heaven BBQ Bash (OPEN FORMAT)
- Most recent contest Stoney Creek BBQ Cookoff
20255 milestones
- 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
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +20.5 | Almost Heaven BBQ Bash (OPEN FORMAT) | Jun 19, 2026 |
| +8.6 | Fire in the Foothills | Sep 26, 2025 |
| +2.3 | BBQ Gives Back (Day 1) | Mar 27, 2026 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -9 | Stoney Creek BBQ Cookoff | Aug 21, 2026 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 25% | top 47% | 93.1% | 91.4% |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 21, 2026 | Stoney Creek BBQ Cookoff 🏅 Edinburg, VA | 24 / 26 (323.8972) | 23 (164.5256) | 24 (159.3716) | — | — |
| Jun 19, 2026 | Almost Heaven BBQ Bash (OPEN FORMAT) 🏅 Buckhannon, WV | 1 / 29 (670.1484) | 16 (170.8228) | 26 (166.2400) | 22 (165.7028) | 23 (167.3828) |
| Mar 27, 2026 | BBQ Gives Back (Day 1) 🏅 Urbanna, VA | 18 / 40 (327.9432) | 20 (158.2288) | 6 (169.7144) | — | — |
| Mar 27, 2026 | BBQ Gives Back (ONE MEAT RIBS) Urbanna, VA | — | — | 23 (156.5028) | — | — |
| Sep 26, 2025 | Fire in the Foothills 🏅 King, NC | 7 / 25 (330.2400) | 10 (158.2628) | 4 (171.9772) | 3 (167.9888) | — |