High-water mark
489.0172
career-best overall
135.8% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 489.0172 at WV Hunting Heroes BBQ Throwdown — 135.8% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2023-04-21
H.A. Cafe
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1504
peak 1504 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
1
in the data
First seen
2023-04-21
latest 2023-04-21
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 1 contests
Avg finish
top 33%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 169.71 · weakest Pork (152.48)
Purse competed for
$5K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
489.02 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Storylines (1 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.
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.
H.A. Cafe has 1 rated contest — 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 114 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.
#3055 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1522
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 5 years before H.A. Cafe's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3042 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1511
No shared contest yet.
5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where H.A. Cafe's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head#3046 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2013, 10 years before H.A. Cafe's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3057 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
Level with H.A. Cafe on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3036 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 50%
- Peak
- 1511
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 5 years before H.A. Cafe's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3026 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1509
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2013, 10 years before H.A. Cafe'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 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 166.8228 | 166.8228 | 166.82 | top 27% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 169.7144 | 169.7144 | 169.71 | top 13% |
| Pork | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 152.4800 | 152.4800 | 152.48 | top 40% |
| Brisket | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
“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 (13 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0 yrs
2023-04-21 → 2023-04-21
Busiest season
2023
1 contest
Cooks most in
WV
1 of 1 contests
Contests visited
1
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
1 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 169.71 · weakest Pork (152.48)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 1 of 1 contests
Overall top-10 rate
100%
1 of 1 contests
Backyard average
489.02
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
20
11–8 across every shared overall standing
Purse competed for
$5,300
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Power rating
1504
peak 1504 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2023
- First tracked contest WV Hunting Heroes BBQ Throwdown
- First call WV Hunting Heroes BBQ Throwdown
- First overall top-10 WV Hunting Heroes BBQ Throwdown
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score489.0172 WV Hunting Heroes BBQ Throwdown
- Career-best overall score489.0172 WV Hunting Heroes BBQ Throwdown
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)169.7144 WV Hunting Heroes BBQ Throwdown
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 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 33% | 135.8% | 135.8% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-04-21 | WV Hunting Heroes BBQ Throwdown 🏅 Cottageville, WV | 5 / 15 (489.0172) | 4 (166.8228) | 2 (169.7144) | 6 (152.4800) | — |