The heartbreaker
1.6452
points from the title
Came within 1.6452 points of the Grand Championship at CBCA Clayton BBQ Cook-off (BACKYARD) (2022-07-10).
StandWithUkraine
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1502
peak 1514 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2022-07-10
latest 2023-03-03
Best ToY finish
#1604
Master 2023
Grand champs
0
1 reserve
Category wins
1
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 53%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 171.42 · weakest Brisket (155.43)
Road miles
72
mi across 2 mapped stops · furthest 36 mi
Purse competed for
$8K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Master avg
642.80 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
338.87 / 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.
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.
Announced themselves early
2nd
at their very first contest
Finished 2 of 20 at their very first tracked contest, CBCA Clayton BBQ Cook-off (BACKYARD) (2022-07-10).
- 2022-07-10
- 20-team field
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.
StandWithUkraine 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 107 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.
#3103 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3101 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 4 years before StandWithUkraine's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3123 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2013, 9 years before StandWithUkraine's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3097 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1503
No shared contest yet.
Level with StandWithUkraine on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3118 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 6 years before StandWithUkraine's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3110 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1503
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2016, 7 years before StandWithUkraine'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 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 173.7144 | 158.2400 | 165.98 | top 53% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 165.1544 | 157.7144 | 161.43 | top 61% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171.4172 | 171.4172 | 171.42 | top 39% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.4288 | 155.4288 | 155.43 | top 86% |
“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.
The story so far (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0.6 yrs
2022-07-10 → 2023-03-03
Busiest season
2023
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
CA
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 1 win · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 171.42 · weakest Brisket (155.43)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 1 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
50%
1 of 2 contests
Master average
642.80
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Backyard average
338.87
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
46
19–27 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
72
2 mapped stops · furthest 36 mi
Purse competed for
$7,700
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Power rating
1502
peak 1514 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2022
- First tracked contest CBCA Clayton BBQ Cook-off (BACKYARD)
- First call CBCA Clayton BBQ Cook-off (BACKYARD)
- First category win (Chicken) CBCA Clayton BBQ Cook-off (BACKYARD)
- First overall top-10 CBCA Clayton BBQ Cook-off (BACKYARD)
- First overall podium CBCA Clayton BBQ Cook-off (BACKYARD)
- First Reserve Championship CBCA Clayton BBQ Cook-off (BACKYARD)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score338.8688 CBCA Clayton BBQ Cook-off (BACKYARD)
- Career-best single call (Chicken)173.7144 CBCA Clayton BBQ Cook-off (BACKYARD)
- 2023
- Career-best overall score642.8004 The Golden State Battle V
- Most recent contest The Golden State Battle V
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 96% | 89.3% | 89.3% |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 100% | top 10% | 94.1% | 94.1% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-03-03 | The Golden State Battle V 🏅 Hollister, CA | 27 / 28 (642.8004) | 28 (158.2400) | 23 (157.7144) | 11 (171.4172) | 24 (155.4288) |
| 2022-07-10 | CBCA Clayton BBQ Cook-off (BACKYARD) Clayton, CA | 2 / 20 (338.8688) | 1 (173.7144) | 8 (165.1544) | — | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 ↗ | Master | #1604 (53 pts) | #1631 (53 pts) | #1419 (63 pts) | #976 (123 pts) | #1567 (58 pts) |