The heartbreaker
1.6912
points from the title
Came within 1.6912 points of the Grand Championship at Lake Country BBQ Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY) ().
Raging Mermaid BBQ
Raging Mermaid BBQ is a competition barbecue team with 3 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record in 2021. Their best overall finish is 2nd of 19 at the Lake Country BBQ Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY) (), and they have finished Reserve Grand Champion once. They finished #1236 in the 2021 Master Series Team of the Year standings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1488
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 1
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
Oct 22, 2021
latest Oct 22, 2021
Grand champs
0
1 reserve
Category wins
0
2 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 53%
overall standings
Walk rate
67%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 163.99 · weakest Brisket (138.25)
Road miles
34
across 2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$9,000
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
Master avg
599.37 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
343.47 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 0 GCs
These overall scores sit on different scales (Master 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.
Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
By meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 171.4400 | 156.5484 | 163.99 | top 51% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 172.0344 | 156.5256 | 163.81 | top 56% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 141.7028 | 141.7028 | 141.70 | top 95% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 138.2516 | 138.2516 | 138.25 | top 98% |
“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.
More numbers
Contests a season
1
across 3 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
WI
3 of 3 contests
Contests visited
2
a different one every time
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
3 entries · 0 wins · 2 calls
Opponents faced
70
finished ahead 19 times, behind 52
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20221 milestone
- Most recent contest BBQ, BLESSINGS & THE VFW (ONE MEAT RIBS)
20211 milestone
- Career-best overall score599.3716 Best of the Midwest BBQ
—7 milestones
- First tracked contest Lake Country BBQ Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First call Lake Country BBQ Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall top-10 Lake Country BBQ Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall podium Lake Country BBQ Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First Reserve Championship Lake Country BBQ Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score343.4744 Lake Country BBQ Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)172.0344 Lake Country BBQ Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY)
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 2022 | BBQ, BLESSINGS & THE VFW (ONE MEAT RIBS) Oconomowoc, WI | — | — | 9 (156.5256) | — | — |
| Oct 22, 2021 | Best of the Midwest BBQ 🏅 Union Grove, WI | 42 / 44 (599.3716) | 38 (156.5484) | 28 (162.8688) | 42 (141.7028) | 43 (138.2516) |
| — | Lake Country BBQ Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY) Okauchee, WI | 2 / 19 (343.4744) | 3 (171.4400) | 3 (172.0344) | — | — |