KCBS in Australia AU

How Australia stacks up (against all 96 regions on file)

The bar is AU's standing on that measure: a full bar is the region that leads it, an empty one is the region that trails it. Rate-based measures need a minimum body of results before a region is ranked at all, so a single hot weekend can't buy a place. The median is the middle region, not the average — one huge region would drag an average somewhere no region actually is.

• Contests held
  80 #30 of 96 ▲ median 34.5
• Teams competing
  393 #37 of 92 ▲ median 249
• Contests this season
  4 #30 of 75 ▲ median 2
• Field depth
  16 teams #67 of 72 ▼ median 30 teams
• Winning score
  677.51 #58 of 60 ▼ median 692.88
• Judging severity (lowest average category score = toughest room)
  160.31 #11 of 70 ▼ median 163.34
• Perfect-180 rate
  1.4 /1k #64 of 70 ▼ median 5.5 /1k
• Growth (last three completed seasons against the three before)
  -25% #45 of 55 ▼ median 25%

Regions like this one

Matched on the shape of the scene — how many contests it runs, how deep the fields get, how the room scores and how often it hands out a 180 — not on the map. Counts are compared on a log scale, because 5 contests to 15 is a different scene while 300 to 310 is the same one.

Season by season

Click a column heading to re-sort. Winning score is the Master overall (of 720); a season with no scored Master contest leaves it blank.

How the room scores (every judged meat, against the sport as a whole)

A lower average means a harder room. “vs sport” is this region's average minus the same meat's average everywhere KCBS is scored. Australia marks brisket hardest — 14.69 points below the rest of the sport.

Where else these teams cook

Of the 46 teams with a recorded finish in AU, this is where else they turn up — the honest picture of which scenes share a travelling field. Follow one to open it up.