Master and Backyard overall scores sit on different scales (Master is out of 720, Backyard out of 360), 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.
Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
They've won two or more meats on the same day 1 time — the best of them 2 category wins at Lake Country BBQ Cook-off(BACKYARD ONLY) (2019-06-09).
Off the trail for 5.8 years, then back at Lake Country BBQ Cook-off(BACKYARD ONLY) (2019-06-09).
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.
Big Belly Barbecue 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 98 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.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 10 years after Big Belly Barbecue did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Big Belly Barbecue on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2016, 3 years before Big Belly Barbecue's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 173.7600 | 157.7028 | 166.09 | top 30% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 167.4172 | 165.1316 | 166.28 | top 22% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 143.9428 | 143.9428 | 143.94 | top 97% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.3200 | 158.3200 | 158.32 | top 42% |
“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.
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| WI | 1 | 0 | top 50% |
| NY | 1 | 0 | top 55% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 50% |
| Medium (20–39) | 2 | 1 | top 30% |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +15.7 | Lake Country BBQ Cook-off(BACKYARD ONLY) | 2019-06-09 |
| +1.3 | Northwoods Triple Crown(BACKYARD ONLY) | 2019-07-12 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -2.5 | Smokin' Eagles International BBQ Festival | 2013-08-09 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 100% | top 27% | 94.8% | 92.4% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 55% | 88.1% | 88.1% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-07-12 | Northwoods Triple Crown(BACKYARD ONLY) Antigo, WI | 5 / 10 (324.0000) | 6 (157.7028) | 4 (166.2972) | — | — |
| 2019-06-09 | Lake Country BBQ Cook-off(BACKYARD ONLY) | 1 / 22 (341.1772) | 1 (173.7600) | 1 (167.4172) | — | — |
| 2013-08-09 | Smokin' Eagles International BBQ Festival N. Tonawanda, NY | 17 / 31 (634.2056) | 8 (166.8112) | 7 (165.1316) | 30 (143.9428) | 13 (158.3200) |