The comeback
4.5 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 4.5 years, then back at Heatbeads BBQ Turf Wars (2019-11-04).
- last seen 2015-05-15
- back 2019-11-04
Southern Boys BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1473
peak 1473 · rated over 3 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2015-04-24
latest 2019-11-04
Best ToY finish
#799
Master 2020
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 85%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
598.00
last 3 Master vs avg 598.00 (+0.00)
Walk rate
33%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±32.15
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 160.39 · weakest Brisket (144.15)
Road miles
10,276
mi across 3 mapped stops · furthest 10209 mi
Schedule strength
23%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1531)
Master avg
598.00 / 720
3 Master contests · 0 GCs
Storylines (2 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.
The long haul
10,276
road miles between contests
Contest to contest, they've covered roughly 10,276 miles across 3 mapped stops — the longest single trip being 10,209 miles to Heatbeads BBQ Turf Wars.
- 3 mapped stops
- furthest 10,209 mi
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.
Southern Boys BBQ 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 146 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.
#4469 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1473
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#4475 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1509
No shared contest yet.
They've been 1509 at their best, 36 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-head#4462 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1473
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 5 years after Southern Boys BBQ did, first appearing in 2020.
⚔ Head-to-head#4482 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1473
No shared contest yet.
Level with Southern Boys BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#4468 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1503
No shared contest yet.
They've been 1503 at their best, 30 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-head#4459 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1473
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 170.3200 | 151.4744 | 160.39 | top 56% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.4628 | 135.3600 | 144.75 | top 84% |
| Pork | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.8228 | 138.7540 | 148.71 | top 85% |
| Brisket | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.8456 | 125.0400 | 144.15 | top 74% |
“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 contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 100% |
| Medium (20–39) | 2 | 0 | top 77% |
The story so far (15 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
4.5 yrs
2015-04-24 → 2019-11-04
Busiest season
2015
2 contests
Contests a season
1.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
VA
2 of 3 contests
Contests visited
3
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
3 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 160.39 · weakest Brisket (144.15)
Walk rate
33%
a top-10 call in 1 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 3 contests
Master average
598.00
out of 720 · 3 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
74
14–65 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
10,276
3 mapped stops · furthest 10,209 mi
Schedule strength
1531
average field rating faced — tougher than 23% of rated contests
Longest layoff
4.5 yrs
2015-05-15 → 2019-11-04
Power rating
1473
peak 1473 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2015
- First tracked contest Saltwater Brew 'N' Que
- Peak power rating (1486) Saltwater Brew 'N' Que
- 2019
- First call Heatbeads BBQ Turf Wars
- Career-best overall score643.4512 Heatbeads BBQ Turf Wars
- Career-best single call (Chicken)170.3200 Heatbeads BBQ Turf Wars
- Most recent contest Heatbeads BBQ Turf Wars
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -13.8 | Saltwater Brew 'N' Que | 2015-04-24 |
| -9.2 | Chesapeake Jubilee BBQ Cook-Off | 2015-05-15 |
| -3.9 | Heatbeads BBQ Turf Wars | 2019-11-04 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 68% | 89.4% | 89.4% |
| 2015 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 93% | 80.1% | 79.9% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-11-04 | Heatbeads BBQ Turf Wars Cranbourne Melbourne, 3950 | 19 / 28 (643.4512) | 7 (170.3200) | 19 (159.4628) | 23 (154.8228) | 16 (158.8456) |
| 2015-05-15 | Chesapeake Jubilee BBQ Cook-Off Chesapeake, VA | 31 / 36 (576.3884) | 19 (159.3828) | 32 (139.4172) | 26 (152.5484) | 33 (125.0400) |
| 2015-04-24 | Saltwater Brew 'N' Que Chincoteague, VA | 18 / 18 (574.1600) | 16 (151.4744) | 17 (135.3600) | 18 (138.7540) | 13 (148.5716) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 ↗ | Master | #799 (83 pts) | #618 (158 pts) | #856 (83 pts) | #893 (63 pts) | #789 (98 pts) |
| 2019 ↗ | Master | #1795 (83 pts) | #1405 (158 pts) | #1884 (83 pts) | #2018 (63 pts) | #1762 (98 pts) |