#3821 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1486
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headBBQ HIGH LIFE
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1486
peak 1486 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2020-11-20
latest 2021-03-12
Best ToY finish
#1236
Master 2021
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 75%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 165.39 · weakest Brisket (135.93)
Road miles
300
mi across 2 mapped stops · furthest 300 mi
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
620.99 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
482.14 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 0 GCs
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.
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.
BBQ HIGH LIFE has 2 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.
#3820 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1486
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2013, 7 years before BBQ HIGH LIFE's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3841 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
Level with BBQ HIGH LIFE on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3828 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1486
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 3 years before BBQ HIGH LIFE's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3836 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1501
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 3 years before BBQ HIGH LIFE's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3852 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 4 years before BBQ HIGH LIFE's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.6684 | 155.3600 | 158.51 | top 71% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 166.8228 | 163.9544 | 165.39 | top 50% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.9544 | 159.4400 | 159.70 | top 69% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 135.9316 | 135.9316 | 135.93 | top 100% |
“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 state / province
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| SC | 1 | 0 | top 95% |
| GA | 1 | 0 | top 55% |
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 95% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 55% |
The story so far (15 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0.3 yrs
2020-11-20 → 2021-03-12
Busiest season
2021
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
SC
1 of 2 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 165.39 · weakest Brisket (135.93)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 1 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 2 contests
Master average
620.99
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Backyard average
482.14
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
94
22–78 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
300
2 mapped stops · furthest 300 mi
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Power rating
1486
peak 1486 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2020
- First tracked contest Georgia BBQ Championship Throwdown
- First call Georgia BBQ Championship Throwdown
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score482.1372 Georgia BBQ Championship Throwdown
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)166.8228 Georgia BBQ Championship Throwdown
- 2021
- Career-best overall score620.9944 Rufus Teague BBQ Throwdown - Pirateland
- Most recent contest Rufus Teague BBQ Throwdown - Pirateland
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)
Season by season
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 95% | 86.2% | 86.2% |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 55% | 133.9% | 133.9% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-03-12 | Rufus Teague BBQ Throwdown - Pirateland 🏅 Myrtle Beach, SC | 37 / 39 (620.9944) | 32 (161.6684) | 29 (163.9544) | 35 (159.4400) | 39 (135.9316) |
| 2020-11-20 | Georgia BBQ Championship Throwdown 🏅 Cumming, GA | 22 / 40 (482.1372) | 24 (155.3600) | 10 (166.8228) | 19 (159.9544) | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 ↗ | Backyard | — | #277 (55 pts) | #191 (125 pts) | — | — |
| 2021 ↗ | Master | #1236 (60 pts) | #1286 (60 pts) | #1309 (60 pts) | #1262 (60 pts) | #1245 (60 pts) |