High-water mark
341.1776
career-best overall
94.8% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 341.1776 at York County BBQ Festival — 94.8% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- Jun 17, 2022
Hopeless Rack Addicts
Hopeless Rack Addicts is a competition barbecue team with 3 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2019 and 2022. Their best overall finish is 3rd of 34 at the York County BBQ Festival (2022).
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1536
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 3
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
May 17, 2019
latest Jun 17, 2022 · 3.1 years on the trail
Category wins
0
2 podiums
Overall top-10s
3
of 3 contests
Best top-10 run
3
straight overall top-10s, still running
Avg finish
top 13%
overall standings
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±11.48
spread of their Backyard overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 167.41 · weakest Pork Ribs (160.00)
Road miles
78
across 3 mapped stops · furthest 35 mi
Schedule strength
45%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1559)
Purse competed for
$21K
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
Backyard avg
327.41 / 360
3 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
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)
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 ↗ | Backyard | — | #151 (250 pts) | #226 (155 pts) | — | — |
By meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 173.1660 | 157.0856 | 167.41 | top 12% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 168.0116 | 155.9888 | 160.00 | top 20% |
“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
Busiest season
2019
2 contests
Contests a season
1.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
PA
2 of 3 contests · 2 states in all
Contests visited
3
a different one every time
Opponents faced
117
finished ahead 130 times, behind 24
Longest layoff
3 yrs
Jun 7, 2019 → Jun 17, 2022
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20225 milestones
- First overall podium York County BBQ Festival
- Career-best overall score341.1776 York County BBQ Festival
- Career-best single call (Chicken)173.1660 York County BBQ Festival
- Peak power rating (1536) York County BBQ Festival
- Most recent contest York County BBQ Festival
20194 milestones
- First tracked contest Twin Valley Fire and Smoke
- First call Twin Valley Fire and Smoke
- First overall top-10 Twin Valley Fire and Smoke
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score327.9544 Twin Valley Fire and Smoke
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 2022 | York County BBQ Festival 🏅 Delta, PA | 3 / 34 (341.1776) | 2 (173.1660) | 7 (168.0116) | — | — |
| Jun 7, 2019 | Separation Colonial BBQ Competition 🏅 New Castle, DE | 7 / 36 (313.0856) | 8 (157.0856) | 7 (156) | — | — |
| May 17, 2019 | Twin Valley Fire and Smoke 🏅 Morgantown, PA | 5 / 44 (327.9544) | 3 (171.9656) | 9 (155.9888) | — | — |